diff --git a/thesis/2-Background.tex b/thesis/2-Background.tex index 2973ff4f198028985605c9b59c955a79eaf2985d..79ad9eb97288e519da211b526090997d6bb1d3aa 100644 --- a/thesis/2-Background.tex +++ b/thesis/2-Background.tex @@ -208,25 +208,33 @@ and VandalProof which \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.'' ---- +%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 @@ -281,7 +289,9 @@ AWB, DumbBOT, EmausBot "“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}