{"id":3857,"date":"2014-02-19T18:55:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T23:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:07","slug":"this-machine-kills-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/19\/this-machine-kills-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"This Machine Kills Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/2\/18\/5412636\/this-machine-kills-trolls-how-wikipedia-robots-snuff-out-vandalism\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/WikiVerge_01_large_verge_super_wide.jpg\" width=\"876\" height=\"472\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"pgh-paragraph\" id=\"paragraph4\">Wikipedia is the encyclopedia \u00e2\u20ac\u0153anyone can edit,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and as of this writing it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s had nearly 700 million edits \u00e2\u20ac\u201d not all of them well-meaning. Sometimes the mischief is directed [&#8230;] Mostly, though, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s predictably uninteresting \u00e2\u20ac\u201d shout-outs, profane opinions, keyboard-mashed gibberish \u00e2\u20ac\u201d happening thousands of times a day over more than 4 million articles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pgh-paragraph\" id=\"paragraph7\">But you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll likely never see any of it. Within minutes if not seconds, bad edits are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153reverted,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d banished to a seldom-seen revision history. As Wikipedia has grown in size and complexity, so has the task of quality control; <strong>today that responsibility falls to a cadre of cleverly programmed robots and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cyborgs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d software-assisted volunteers who spend hours patrolling recent edits<\/strong>. Beneath its calm exterior, Wikipedia is a battlezone, and these are its front lines.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/2\/18\/5412636\/this-machine-kills-trolls-how-wikipedia-robots-snuff-out-vandalism\">This machine kills trolls | The Verge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editing bots have arrived at Wikipedia. Is this a good thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[909,567,123],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-bots","tag-editing","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3864,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions\/3864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}