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thesis/2-Background.tex

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 \subsection{Bots}
 
-\cite{Livingstone2016}
-Bot Def
-"bots are processes that run in the background, are normally
-invisible, react to their environment, and most importantly, run autonomously. Leonard (1997) claims autonomy
-is the “crucial variable”"
+Bots are undoubtedly the vandal fighting mechanism studied most in depth by the scientific community.
+Following papers study(syn!) bots on Wikipedia (vandal fighting frame):
+~\cite{GeiRib2010},
+...
 
-"What is a bot?
-In the Wikimedia software, there are tasks that do all sorts of things, like count pages, count orphan pages, etc.
-If these things are not in the software, an external bot could do them. It is just a small step to editing pages. The
-main difference is where it runs and who runs it."
-
-\cite{GeiRib2010}
-BotDef
-"Bots – short for „robots" – are fully-automated software
+Geiger and Ribes~\cite{GeiRib2010} define bots as
+``fully-automated software
 agents that perform algorithmically-defined tasks involved
-with editing, maintenance, and administration in Wikipedia."
+with editing, maintenance, and administration in Wikipedia.''
 
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+%todo summarise aspects of bot papers:
+trace enthnography and banning of vandals~\cite{GeiRib2010}
+indepth analysis of ClueBot NG, and its place within vandal fighting infrastructure~\cite{GeiHal2013}
+... (smth else??)
+
+Further bots discussed by the literature include (ClueBot NG~\cite{GeiHal2013},~\cite{HalRied2012},)
+XLinkBot~\cite{HalRied2012},
+HBC AIV Helperbots~\cite{HalRied2012},~\cite{GeiRib2010},
+MartinBot, AntiVandalBot~\cite{HalRied2012},
+AWB, DumbBOT, EmausBot~\cite{GeiHal2013}.
 
+Very crucial for the current analysis will be also Livingstone's observation in the preamble to his interview with the first large scale bot operator Ram-man that
+``In the Wikimedia software, there are tasks that do all sorts of things [...].
+If these things are not in the software, an external bot could do them. [...]
+The main difference is where it runs and who runs it.''~\cite{Livingstone2016}
+
+\begin{comment}
 %ClueBot NG
 "ClueBot\_NG uses state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to review all contributions to
 
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 "“HBC AIV helperbot7” – automatically
 removed the third vandal fighter's now-obsolete report."
 
-%Note on collaboration bots/edit filters. Maybe not the suitable chapter
+bots and bespoke code!~\cite{Geiger2014}
+\end{comment}
+
 
 \subsection{ORES}