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Edited by Annouck Welhuis

SHORT BACKGROUND

- January 2001- Larry Sanger & Jimmy Wales- Non-profit- Dutch community

FIRST RULE - October 2001

- ‘Ignore all rules’- If a rule prevents you from improving or

maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it.

RESEARCH QUESTION

- How can the conflict between the Wikipedia community and the Wikipedia vandals be considered as a game?

CONFLICT

VANDALS / TROLLS

- Encyclopædia Dramatica- Slogan: “In lulz we trust”- Satirical - Internet subculture

- Intentionally ignoring all rules

WIKIPEDIA AS A GAME

1. You make edits to articles

2. Your edits get reverted by aspie fucktards

3. You revert them back and they in turn revert again

4. You bicker on the talk page of the article

5. You whine about the aspies on the administrator noticeboards accusing them of being uncivil, they in turn accuse you of assuming bad faith

6. You open a Request for Comment on their behavior

7. You take them to arbitration

8. ???

9. Jimbo profits

Gaining Experience Points• 1 vandal reversion = 1 exp (a vandal is defined as an editor with a different point of view than yours)• 1 legitimate edit to a page = 2 exp• 1 article created (assuming it stays) = 20 exp• 1 Good Article = 100 exp• 1 Featured Article = 200 exp• 1 report to AIV or UAA = 5 exp• 1 page deleted via AfD = 20 exp• 1 page deleted via PROD or CSD = 10exp• 1 support for an Rfa = 20 exp• 1 article with POV or misinformation inserted into = 100 exp

•1 user blocked as a result of drama created = 50 exp

BOTS

- Non-human actor- Cluebot - Task: reverting vandalism

VANDAL BOTS?

FAMOUS VANDAL

- Willy on Wheels

HOAX

- Bobby Boulders - International Society of Vandal

- “Willy is a fiction propagated by the Admins of Wikipedia. His purpose is to serve as a catch-all persona for all Wikipedia vandals”

(Boulders, 2006).

USER:MYVERYOWNSOCK/VANDALBOT

- Vandalbot:

Page move & edit bot

- Bot policy - Protected articles

SHORT CONCLUSION

1. Not the same game

2. Not the same goal

3. Not the same rules

4. Not the same tools

5. Not the same power

But play in the same Wikipedia ‘World’