OII | Indefatigable WikiBots keep Wikipedia battles going long after humans give up and go home

Published on
21 Sep 2016

A group of researchers from Oxford University and the Alan Turing Institute in London say once Wikipedia bots get into a disagreement, they spend years reverting each others' edits.

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