Overview of the 2nd International Competition on Wikipedia Vandalism Detection

Abstract The paper overviews the vandalism detection task of the PAN’11 competition. A new corpus is introduced which comprises about 30 000 Wikipedia edits in the languages English, German and Spanish as well as the necessary crowdsourced annotations. Moreover, the performance of three vandalism detectors is evaluated and compared to those of the PAN’10 competition.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Martin Potthast, Teresa Holfeld
• Keywords: CLEF 2011, Information Technology, Paper Overviews, Vandalism, Wikipedia