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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Think twice before assisting this harmful project.

[jonathansamuel2]

This project will place more power in the hands of anonymous, faceless Wikipedia bureaucrats. It is therefore harmful. If Wikipedia bureaucrats are too lazy to review possibly offensive material by hand and instead want a machine to do it for them then MAYBE the world does not need that kind of Wikipedia at all.

If you want to view a Wikipedia administrator drunk with his own sense of self-importance check this out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:EdJohnston#Jonathansamuel