Wikipedia Vandalism Detection Through Machine Learning: Feature Review and New Proposals: Lab Report for PAN at CLEF 2010

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia built upon the collaborations of thousands of editors. Its collaboration model is simple: anyone can edit any article at any time. This has made possible the great success of Wikipedia, but it comes with its own problems, one of them being destructive edits. There are many ways in which an edit can be destructive for Wikipedia, such as lobbying, spam, vandalism, tests, etc. In PAN 2010 Lab's Task 2 we are focused on automatic detection of vandalism. The English Wikipedia defines vandalism as: [...] any addition, removal, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia.