Vandal bot
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A vandal bot is a script or "robot" that attempts to vandalize or spam massive amounts of content on the internet, usually adding advertising links similar to the content found in email spam. Most vandal bots are based on legitimate robot scripts which perform useful maintenance tasks like article categorisation or correcting typo's.
- Vandal bots on Wikipedia
Wikipedia's registered bots are used to help with the more repitive and monotonous aspects of wiki workflow and all conform to Wikipedia's robot policies, but these scripts have been modified to make vandal bots which violate the policies by pose as normal Human users with the purpose of performing Wikipedia vandalism. To counteract this problem some of Wikipedia's, are specifically designed to detect vandalism and revert it or report it to administrators by placing the affected article into the appropriate wiki workflow category.
- List of Wikipedia's vandalism-related bots
- VandalCountBot updates vandalism statistics.
- Curps detects various usage patterns common to vandalism.
- AngBot deletes articles created by mass page-creation vandalism.
- Tawkerbot2 performs general vandalism revision / warnings.
- Tawkerbot4 performs general vandalism revision / warnings.
- AntiVandalBot performs general vandalism revision / warnings.
- Xenophon performs general vandalism revision / warnings.
- Werdnabot2 performs general vandalism revision / warnings.
- SgtDrini performs general vandalism revision / warnings.
- See also
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