User:Emijrp/Anti-vandalism bot census
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This is an anti-vandalism bot census for all
Wikimedia projects as of February 2011. It includes active and inactive bots
, also simple clones of other bots. The main goal of this census is compiling all the information available about these counter-vandalism automatic tools. Feel free to help improve this page.
Techniques
We can see two main types of anti-vandalism bots:
- First generation: simple scoring systems based in heuristics.
- Second generation: bayesian filters.
Census
| Bot name | Operator | Project | First reversion | Last reversion[1] | Methods of detecting vandalism | Programming language | License | Source code | Edits[2] | Comments, additional features, etc |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africanus | Magister Mathematicae | es.wikipedia.org | 2010-04-23 | Active | · | · | · | · | 7000 | AVBOT clone |
| AmeliorationBot | Ameliorate! |
en.wikipedia.org | 2008-07-21 | 2008-11-08 | Regular expressions | AWB |
· | · | 2000 | Not really anti-vandalism. It removes test edits and default messages of toolbar |
| AntiSpamBot | Shadow1 | en.wikipedia.org | 2006-11-16 | 2007-12-25 | Blacklist | Perl | · | · | 44000 | Not really anti-vandalism, it is anti-spam |
| AVBOT | Emijrp | es.wikipedia.org | 2008-03-10 | 2010-05-16 | Scoring system based in regular expressions | Python, Pywikipedia | GPL | http://code.google.com/p/avbot/ | 595000 | Anti-vandalism, tag new pages for deletion, remove non-notable biographies from date pages |
| Bot que revierte | Orgullomoore | es.wikipedia.org | 2006-06-04 | 2006-07-03 | Regular expressions | · | · | · | 900 | It only reverts to anonymous users, and only the last edit |
| Botarel | Lucien leGrey | es.wikipedia.org | 2009-04-17 | Active | · | · | · | · | 46000 | AVBOT clone |
| BOTirithel | Tirithel | es.wikipedia.org | 2009-09-14 | Active | · | · | · | · | 6000 | AVBOT clone |
| BOTpolicia | Er Komandante | es.wikipedia.org | 2007-01-21 | 2008-03-18 | · | · | · | · | 153000 | Anti-vandalism, tag new pages for deletion |
| ClueBot | Cobi |
en.wikipedia.org | 2007-07-29 | 2010-12-02 | Scoring system based in heuristics | PHP | GPL | User:ClueBot/Source | 1500000 | Report IP vandals who use open proxies to WP:OP
|
| ClueBot NG | Cobi, Crispy1989 |
en.wikipedia.org | 2010-11-02 | Active | Artificial neural network |
C, C++, PHP, Python, Bash, and Java (more info) | GPL | https://cobihome.external.cluenet.org:8443/viewvc/cluebotng/ | 1623187 | Main anti-vandalism bot on w:en: |
| CounterVandalismBot | Lloydpick | en.wikipedia.org | 2007-09-28 | 2007-11-10 | Scoring system | Visual C# |
· | · | 14000 | · |
| CVBOT | HUB | es.wikipedia.org | 2009-10-01 | Active | · | · | · | · | 3000 | AVBOT clone |
| CVNBot | Manuelt15 | es.wikipedia.org | 2010-04-08 | Active | · | · | · | · | 600 | AVBOT clone |
| GoblinBot4 | Bluegoblin7 | simple.wikipedia.org | 2009-05-12 | Active | · | PHP | GPL | http://sourceforge.net/projects/antivandalbot | 10000 | · |
| PseudoBot | Pseudomonas | en.wikipedia.org | 2008-04-12 | Active | Redlinks to nonexistent page in date articles | Perl | · | · | 95000 | Remove non-notable biographies from date pages |
| Salebot | Gribeco | fr.wikipedia.org | 2007-10-26 | Active | Scoring using regexps and user profiling | Perl | · | https://fisheye.toolserver.org/browse/gribeco/salebot2 | 713000 | Also used on ptwiki |
| SalebotJunior | Nakor | fr.wikipedia.org | 2010-07-26 | Active | Scoring using regexps and user profiling | Perl | · | https://fisheye.toolserver.org/browse/gribeco/salebot2 | 1000 | Exactly the same code as Salebot, running when Salebot is unavailable |
| SoxBot III | X! | en.wikipedia.org | 2009-01-01 | 2009-09-12 | Scoring system | PHP | GPL | https://github.com/soxred93/SoxBot-III | 29000 | · |
| VoABot II | Voice of All |
en.wikipedia.org | 2006-07-28 | 2009-10-06 | · | Javascript/Java |
· | · | 274000 | Anti-vandalism, revert vandal page moves |
Bots to be added:
- AVBOT (es) and its clons, Salebot (pt), anti-spam (en)
- ask in other wikipedias
- no bots? pl
- anti-vandalism bots are not allowed in: de
- use of anti-abuse filters, not bots: it
- make statistics about reverts in the recentchanges table to discover bots
Semi-automatic anti-vandalism tools
For a fuller list see Category:Wikipedia counter-vandalism tools
Notes
References
- 2011
- Wikipedia Vandalism Detection: Combining Natural Language, Metadata, and Reputation Features. B. Thomas Adler, Luca de Alfaro, Santiago Mola-Velasco, Paolo Rosso, and Andrew G. West.
- 2010
- Detecting Wikipedia vandalism with active learning and statistical language models. Si-Chi Chin, W. Nick Street, Padmini Srinivasan, and David Eichmann.
- The Work of Sustaining Order in Wikipedia: The Banning of a Vandal. R. Stuart Geiger and David Ribes.
- Crowdsourcing a Wikipedia Vandalism Corpus. Martin Potthast.
- Detecting Wikipedia Vandalism via Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Revision Metadata. Andrew G. West, Sampath Kannan, and Insup Lee.
- 2009
- Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia: a Bag-of-Words Classifier Approach. Amit Belani.
- Using Dynamic Markov Compression to Detect Vandalism in the Wikipedia. Kelly Y. Itakura and Charles L. A. Clarke.
- 2008
- Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia. Martin Potthast, Benno Stein, Robert Gerling.
- (German) Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia. Robert Gerling.
- Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia. Martin Potthast, Benno Stein, and Robert Gerling.
- Automatic Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia: Towards a Machine Learning Approach. Koen Smets, Bart Goethals, and Brigitte Verdonk.
- 2007
- Creating, Destroying, and Restoring Value in Wikipedia. Reid Priedhorsky, Jilin Chen, Shyong (Tony) K. Lam, Katherine Panciera, Loren Terveen, and John Riedl.
See also
- Wikipedia:Vandalism
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Vandalism studies
- Category:Wikipedia anti-vandal bots
- WikiTrust -- A computational technique running live on many language editions of Wikipedia (I believe), with directly accessible API (announcement). English version integrated as a "queue" into the STiki semi-automated front-end.
- Wikipedia trust write-up (added by its author, not peer reviewed) -- If your looking for a more academic angle, this might be worth reading. Fig. 9 especially visualizes the relationship between a lot of the academic writings in this field. (Note that "vandalism", while a small subset of the "trust" spectrum, seems to be where all the effort is focused).
- Wikipedia:Academic studies of Wikipedia
External links
- 1st International Competition on Wikipedia Vandalism Detection (Padua, Italy, 22–23 September 2010 - workshop page, see also Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-09-27/In_the_news#Vandalism_detection_competition)
- http://www.andrew-g-west.com
- Reverts statistics