Wikipedia bots

Computer programs, called bots, have often been used to automate simple and repetitive tasks, such as correcting common misspellings and stylistic issues, or to start articles, such as geography entries, in a standard format from statistical data. Additionally, there are bots designed to automatically notify editors when they make common editing errors (such as unmatched quotes or unmatched parentheses). One prominent example of an internet bot used in Wikipedia is Lsjbot, which had created one million short 'barebones' articles across various language editions of Wikipedia by 2013. The Cebuano, Swedish and Waray Wikipedias are known to have high numbers of bot-created content. One notable development leading up to 2015 has been the use of bots to perform vandalism-fighting chores in place of human labor. According to estimates, 50% of all vandalism is already eliminated by bots. Human patrollers have congratulated the bots on their accuracy and speed in a number of remarks posted on their talk pages. Anti-vandalism bots like ClueBot NG, created in 2010 are programmed (in its case using an artificial neural network trained on past instances of vandalism) to detect and revert vandalism quickly. == Interactions ==

On Wikipedia, bots typically engage in more reciprocal and prolonged conversations than humans. However, bots in various cultural contexts may act differently, much like people. According to research on bots on Wikipedia from 2001-2010, even comparatively "dumb" bots have the potential to produce complex relationships, which the authors believe have important consequences for the study of artificial intelligence. Many of the conflicts between bots on Wikipedia ended in 2013 after an update to the way inter-language links worked. == Types of bots ==

One way to sort bots is by what activities they perform: • content creation, such as by procedural generation (historically focused on short barebones articles about technical topics) • clerk, updating reports • archiving old discussions or tasks • moderation systems to combat against spam or misconduct • recommender systems to encourage users • notifications, such as with push technology and pull technology • repairing broken external links, such as InternetArchiveBot == See also ==