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The "robots" behind Wikipedia

  • Émission
    CQFD
  • 27 May 2015
  • Frédéric Kaplan
    • Collège des Humanités, EPFL
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Sixteen of the twenty most active contributors on the English version of Wikipedia are algorithms. This reality breaks with the Epinal image of a community of users building a free encyclopedia day after day.

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