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by shevy-java 28 days ago
This could be automatic. I noticed this myself because I corrected both typos in english and german wikipedia; sometimes they are reverted, sometimes not. There seems no logic in it, so I assumed that in some cases this must have been automatic wiki bots reverting something.
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This was like 10 years ago. Long before the real invasion of the bots. I don't even remember the username or password of my account any more.
The main anti-vandalism bot ClueBot was created in 2007, and its successor ClueBot NG in 2010. They certainly have false positives from time to time, but that doesn't mean they aren't the most useful bots on the website.
It aims to have a false positive rate of 0.1%
Anti-vandalism bots have been used for much longer than 10 years lol
Don't know, don't care. Wikipedia is not a major source of information for me any more, the summaries from various search engines are enough.

For everything else there's grok.

I would expect a bot to be consistent. Wikipedia editors? Not so much.