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Developing a Vandalism Detector For Wikipedia
marpot writes "In an effort to assist Wikipedia's editors in their struggle to keep articles clean, we are conducting a public lab on vandalism detection. The goal is the development of a practical vandalism detector that is capable of telling apart ill-intentioned edits from well-intentioned edits. Such a tool, which will work somewhat like a spam detector, will release the crowd's workforce currently occupied with manual and semi-automatic edit filtering. The performance of submitted detectors will be evaluated based on a large collection of human-annotated edits, which has been crowdsourced using Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Everyone is welcome to participate."
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The article on anti-vandalism bots had been recently vandalized when they were doing their preliminary research.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
A Clue Bot, eh? I wonder what happens if you register the username "Colonel Mustard".
Whoever posted this clearly isn't aware of the actual work being done in the field. For instance, I was running a ___[thing]___ in _[year]_, and it wasn't new at the time. They've gotten much more sophisticated since then. Why are they so intent on reinventing the wheel? Do they not even realize that the wheel exists already? Why not just improve on it instead?
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This looks like a useful template for the standard "why reinvent the wheel" Slashdot post; I hope you don't mind if I reuse it.
... but the truth?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nick_Xenophon&oldid=326486984#As_federal_senator
Assume Good Faith!
I have candy. Get in the van.
I cannot agree more with what you say, but I'd like to give it a twist: I want computers to assist me, and I want them to DO it WELL, RELIABLY, and ROBUSTLY.
-Slashbot Editor 0.95 beta
"A government is a body of people usually -- notably -- ungoverned." -Shepherd Book
You're looking for a DWIM (Do What I Meant) interpreter with PDCH (Predictive Digital Concierge Heuristics). While the technology is available it's currently quite costly. Bugs, errata, and maintenance can deliver less than an optimal experience. Might I instead offer you this mail order bride? We have imported personal assistants in stock from less privileged nations - and if you have the means we can outsource minute-to-minute management of them to our Bangalore VPDT (Virtual Presence Discipline Team). Please consult your accountant and tax lawyer concerning withholding for personal staff, particularly if you intend to pursue public service.
/At your service!
Help stamp out iliturcy.