Setting out to discover more about precisely who edits Wikipedia, Steiner created an open-source program that monitors the stream of changes made to the online, crowdsourced encyclopedia, and can ...

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Revision wars on Wikipedia amongst human editors is an all-too-common occurrence, but new research from the UK shows that similar online battles are being waged between the site’s software robots. As ...

Half of all edits to Wikipedia are made by bots. That stat, from a new study monitoring the site's revisions, might seem like cause for alarm. But according to Wikipedia researchers, it's key to the ...

Bots are a useful tool on Wikipedia: they identify and undo vandalism, add links and perform other tedious tasks set by their human masters. But even these automated helpers come into conflict, ...

Mainstream media has been swirling with stories about the recently created @congressedits Twitter bot, ranging from hilarious pokes at congressional staffers’ taste in ice cream to the scandalous and ...

Wikipedia is written and maintained by tens of thousands of volunteers across the world. Those, in turn, are assisted by hundreds of "bots" - autonomous computer programmes that keep the encyclopaedia ...