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 \section{Semi-automated tools}
 
+Semi-automated tools are similar to bots in the sense that they provide automated detection of potential low-quality edits.
+The difference however is that with semi-automated tools humans do the final assessment and decide what happens with the edits in question.
+
 Semi-automated tools used for vandalism fighting on Wikipedia are discussed by:
 more popular/widely used:
 STiki~\cite{WestKanLee2010}
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 * filters: BEFORE an edit is published; everything else: AFTER
 * filters: REGEX!
 * die wichtigsten erkenntnisse mehrmals erwähnen: intro, schluss, tralala; nicht dass sie unter gehen weil ich von lautern Bäumen den Wald nicht mehr sehe
-* do bots check also entire article text and not only single edits? as a clever person with malicious intentions I could split my malicious stuff into several edits to make it more difficult to discover
+* do bots check also entire article text and not only single edits? as a clever person with malicious intentions I could split my malicious stuff into several edits to make it more difficult to discover -- unklar. ich hab das gefühl, die sind schon edit-basiert
 
 
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