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34 'Highly Toxic Users' Wrote 9% of the Personal Attacks On Wikipedia (bleepingcomputer.com)
Researchers used machine learning to analyze every single comment left on Wikipedia in 2015. An anonymous reader shares their results:
34 "highly toxic users" were responsible for 9% of all the personal attacks in the comments on Wikipedia, according to a research team from Alphabet's Jigsaw and the Wikimedia Foundation. They concluded that "significant progress could be made by moderating a relatively small number of frequent attackers." But at the same time, in Wikipedia's comments "less than half of attacks come from users with little prior participation; and perhaps surprisingly, approximately 30% of attacks come from registered users with over a 100 contributions. These results suggest the problems associated with personal attacks do not have an easy solution... the majority of personal attacks on Wikipedia are not the result of a few malicious users, nor primarily the consequence of allowing anonymous contributions."
The researchers "developed a machine learning algorithm that was able to identify and distinguish different forms of online abuse and personal attacks," reports Bleeping Computer, adding that the team "hopes that Wikipedia uses their study to build a comments monitoring dashboard that could track down hotspots of abusive personal attacks and help moderators ban or block toxic users." The paper describes it as a method "that combines crowdsourcing and machine learning to analyze personal attacks at scale."
The researchers "developed a machine learning algorithm that was able to identify and distinguish different forms of online abuse and personal attacks," reports Bleeping Computer, adding that the team "hopes that Wikipedia uses their study to build a comments monitoring dashboard that could track down hotspots of abusive personal attacks and help moderators ban or block toxic users." The paper describes it as a method "that combines crowdsourcing and machine learning to analyze personal attacks at scale."
Wikipedia is a DISGRACE when it comes to any article linking to politics. A 'fake news' page was created recently, and the admin trolls used it to list news sites they didn't like, not sites who are open about using fake headlines for the traffic. But no-one can correct that page because the trolls ARE the admins - and comments pointing out the abuse of process are described by the admin trolls as 'attacks'.
Wikipedia is a mouth-piece for Israel, and the deep state. It may as well be another Soros outlet, tho Wikipedia's connections are more direct NSA (as a propaganda outlet).
Off politics (tech, maths, science, TV, movies, etc) and Wikipedia is mostly brilliant as a port of first resort. But this is standard state propaganda operation. Create a resource with a LOT of 'sugar' to draw people in so you can get as much 'medicine' down their throats as possible. Smart, informed people take the 'sugar' and avoid the 'medicine' (and yes I know in the real world medicine is 'good'- but that's not how this intelligence concept uses language).