- Category: Digital
- Written by Sumit Raja
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Little about the bot that runs Wikipedia, ClueBot NG
If you think that wikipedia only relies on a bunch of people volunteering to edit or post new content or information on the website -- then you are way, way wrong about it. Wikipedia is big and is growing tremendously. With all the information it's database contains, its hardly to believe that there are no bot working behind the scene.
about 50% of the total content on the wikipedia is maintained by its bots. BBC has a great look at the bots that buzz around behind the scenes of the mammoth encyclopedia. Consider ClueBot NG, which is used to detect vandalism on Wikipedia.
The sophisticated script and algorithm takes care of the most of the work on the website. Recently it has been cited that actual human editors working on the website is actually declining.
Bots are as old as Wikipedia itself, and they're absolutely necessary for its continuity. The encyclopedia is getting bigger every day, and the number of human editors and admins is declining. Sure, maybe it's a little troublesome that bots have so much control, but as the BBC points out, they're not allowed to write articles, and only admins with the highest privileges could send a bot out to delete articles wholesale.
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