Vandalism and Addressing Vandalism in Wikipedia

 Vandalism and Sock-Puppetry in Wikipedia 

Vandalism often occurs in social media. For example, the Chinese and Russian government hiring 2 million people to distract the innocent crowd. In Wikipedia, vandalism and sock-puppetry surrounding Wikipedia’s articles happens in a daily basis. In fact, an estimated amount of 9% of Wikipedia’s comments in discussions are also attacks by trolls.

Check out examples of Wikipedia vandalisms below:



 Addressing Vandalism using AI and ML bots in Wikpedia 

Subtly wrong information acts as a Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument. Butof course, control of the database remains with Wikipedia administrators allowing for access and permissions to be maintained by a central authority.

Thus, there is a certain amount of censorship and authority, such as: Other than censorship and authority, vandalism is usually caught by one of Wikipedia’s bots, CLUEBot NG. In total, Wikipedia has 306 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning bots that maintains the site, including patrolling edit filters, updating lists, and adding protection to certain articles in Wikipedia. Standards are made to prevent vandalism in Wikipedia, such as only registered users can edit a Wikipedia article and sensitive Wikipedia articles can only be edited by accredited users or administrators.
 * 1) Only registered users may create a new article.
 * 2) Controversial, sensitive and/or vandalism-prone pages have been protected to some degree: autoconfirmed or extended confirmed editors are able to modify it. A particularly contentious article may be locked so that only administrators are able to make changes.

These bots are created by Wikipedia users. In addition, Wikipedia also organizes a meet-up event other than Edit-a-thons, called the Wikipedia Hack Day. In this Hack Day, people are invited to improve Wikipedia tools.