{"id":5412,"date":"2012-08-10T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5412"},"modified":"2012-08-10T03:20:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T07:20:38","slug":"the-wikipedia-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-wikipedia-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wikipedia Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/072812_0438_TheWikipedi1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2012\/how-much-is-wikipedia-worth\/\">invaluable<\/a> Wikipedia that, let&#8217;s face it, all of us rely on, owes a large part of its success to automated robots that scan the encyclopedia writes Daniel Nasaw:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 700 bots prune through Wikipedia&#8217;s 4 million articles.<\/li>\n<li>These bots detect and remove vandalism, categorize posts, fix references, and complete other invaluable tasks.<\/li>\n<li>The first robots pulled out data from the US census on small towns. They produced thousands of articles a day but the robot articles were short and formulaic with basic information.<\/li>\n<li>Today robots aren&#8217;t allowed to create articles but they maintain the Wikipedia experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more including why human writers don&#8217;t have to worry about being replaced just yet, why they aren&#8217;t like cars, the small rate of false positives, the potential for one of the robots to go crazy, and what would happen if the bots went on strike, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-18892510\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-18892510\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The invaluable Wikipedia that, let&#8217;s face it, all of us rely on, owes a large part of its success to automated robots that scan the encyclopedia writes Daniel Nasaw: Over 700 bots prune through Wikipedia&#8217;s 4 million articles. These bots detect and remove vandalism, categorize posts, fix references, and complete other invaluable tasks. The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/072812_0438_TheWikipedi1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5556,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions\/5556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}