Difference between revisions of "Wikipedia Bots"
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| − | Wikipedia is a user-edited online encyclopedia . As of March, 2019 Wikipedia contains over five million <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia five million</ref> English articles, as well as many more in 302 other languages<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias</ref>. Wikipedia depends on volunteers to grow and maintain the site. Maintenance of the site is facilitated by internet bots, which have their own user accounts. In 2014, there were 274 active bots and they accounted for 15% of all edits on Wikipedia. <ref> ip=35.3.51.231&id=2641613&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&key=93447E3B54F7D979%2E0A17827594E6F2C8%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35&__acm__=1552621378_e7b064c4e0c4e92a28e12ac3a1ac3ce1</ref> | + | Wikipedia is a user-edited online encyclopedia . As of March, 2019 Wikipedia contains over five million <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia five million</ref> English articles, as well as many more in 302 other languages<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias</ref>. Wikipedia depends on volunteers to grow and maintain the site. Maintenance of the site is facilitated by internet bots, which have their own user accounts. In 2014, there were 274 active bots and they accounted for 15% of all edits on Wikipedia. <ref> ip=35.3.51.231&id=2641613&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&key=93447E3B54F7D979%2E0A17827594E6F2C8%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35&__acm__=1552621378_e7b064c4e0c4e92a28e12ac3a1ac3ce1</ref> The bots demonstrate how autonomous agents can improve the info sphere they inhabit. However, due to their potential to also cause wide damage to info sphere if left unchecked, there are policies concerning the bots, set in place to safe guard the website. |
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| + | An internet bot is a software application that runs automated tasks on the web. They allow for repetitive tasks be performed faster and at a larger scale than they would be done manually. Internet bots are integral part of the web. For example, all search engines depend on crawlers who jump from link to link to index sites. Bots can roughly be divided into two categories: good actors like the search engine crawlers and malicious bots, which pose a large threat to cyber security. | ||
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Revision as of 04:02, 15 March 2019
Wikipedia is a user-edited online encyclopedia . As of March, 2019 Wikipedia contains over five million [1] English articles, as well as many more in 302 other languages[2]. Wikipedia depends on volunteers to grow and maintain the site. Maintenance of the site is facilitated by internet bots, which have their own user accounts. In 2014, there were 274 active bots and they accounted for 15% of all edits on Wikipedia. [3] The bots demonstrate how autonomous agents can improve the info sphere they inhabit. However, due to their potential to also cause wide damage to info sphere if left unchecked, there are policies concerning the bots, set in place to safe guard the website.
Internet bots
An internet bot is a software application that runs automated tasks on the web. They allow for repetitive tasks be performed faster and at a larger scale than they would be done manually. Internet bots are integral part of the web. For example, all search engines depend on crawlers who jump from link to link to index sites. Bots can roughly be divided into two categories: good actors like the search engine crawlers and malicious bots, which pose a large threat to cyber security.
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Danger to Info-sphere
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia five million
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
- ↑ ip=35.3.51.231&id=2641613&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&key=93447E3B54F7D979%2E0A17827594E6F2C8%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35&__acm__=1552621378_e7b064c4e0c4e92a28e12ac3a1ac3ce1
