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Wikipedia Creates AI System To Filter Out Bad Edits (thestack.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the citation-provided dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Wikipedia has developed a new artificial intelligence system aimed at improving the quality of its entries and detecting both mistakes and damaging edits made to its articles. The technology is named the Objective Revision Evaluation Service. The Wikimedia blog explains that the system is able to highlight incorrect edits, allowing editors to filter them out from the "torrent" of new amends and scrutinize their credibility. The entire service and process is open – with Wikipedia making revision scoring transparent and audit-able by publishing the source code, performance statistics and project documentation publicly under open licenses.

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  1. Detects mistakes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great! We can hook it to a random number generator and have it create all knowledge!

  2. Re:Is this some kind of joke article? by alvinrod · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually it would be W.O.R.E.S. considering its name is the Wikipedia Objective Revision Evaluation Service.

    But now that you mention it they missed a golden opportunity to call it the Holistic Objective Revision Evaluation Service or something along those lines.

  3. Nah doesn't work by goombah99 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm the inventor of the scroll lock key but everytime I ad this to my Wikipedia profile it gets deleted.

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    Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
  4. Secret Code snipit by laurencetux · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... IF POSTER = DONOR MORE THAN US$15E5 THEN GOTO POST EDIT ...
    rest of filter code goes here