Wikipedia Abuse Filter

Haha, this is awesome. There's a lot of wisdom about how people vandalize Wikipedia in here.

I was really curious about 339, "Claims of sexual orientation or gender in a BLP". I believe BLP means "Biography/Living Person" which is an important category since Wikipedia needs to pay special attention to not put anything in those articles that may be defamatory in some way, or even just inaccurate. But I was sitting there thinking, huh, why 144,000 hits? That seems like way too much.

Of course, that's because 99% of the triggered edits appear to be "[...] is gay". Yep, that checks out.

Also relevant, ClueBot NG, which uses ML to automatically revert vandalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ClueBot_NG

This kind of thing is a clear benefit of ML, in my view: there's far too much vandalism on Wikipedia for humans to reasonably be able to tackle it. You need an automated immune system of some kind.

I was looking up what replacing with obscenity actually looks like and first example was just replacing the article with the n-word. Imagine signing up for a Wikipedia account to do that. It is revolting but also out right sad.