http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~lam/papers/lam_group2010_wikipedia-group-decisions.pdf :
> "We also found that there have been two bots (computer programs that edit > Wikipedia)—BJBot and Jayden54Bot—that automatically automatically notified > article editors about AfD discussions and recruited them to participate per > the established policy. These bots performed AfD notifications for several > months, and offer us an opportunity to study the effect of recruitment that > is purely policy driven. We use a process like one described above to detect > successful instances of bot-initiated recruitment: if a recruitment bot > edited a user’s talk page, and that user !voted in an AfD within two days, > then we consider that user to have been recruited by the bot. > Using the above processes, we identified 8,464 instances of successful > recruiting. Table 2 shows a summary of who did the recruiting, and how their > recruits !voted. We see large differences in !voting behavior, which suggests > that there is bias in who people choose to recruit. (From these data we > cannot tell whether the bias is an intentional effort to influence consensus, > or the result of social network homophily [14].) Participants recruited by > keep !voters were about four times less likely to support deletion as those > recruited by delete !voters. The participants that bots recruited also appear > unlikely to support deletion, which reflects the policy bias we observed > earlier." -- gwern http://www.gwern.net _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
