Wikipedia Bots

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[intro] Wikipedia is an 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. 15% of all Wikipedia edits have been made bots. [3]

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Benefits to Info-sphere

Danger to Info-sphere

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia five million
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
  3. http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2650000/2641613/p25.pdf?ip=35.3.51.231&id=2641613&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&key=93447E3B54F7D979%2E0A17827594E6F2C8%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35&__acm__=1552621378_e7b064c4e0c4e92a28e12ac3a1ac3ce1