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AI tidies up Wikipedia’s references — and boosts reliability
(www.nature.com)
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this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023
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This is good news. One problem I've always had with using Wikipedia as a research source is that while most of the claims may have citations, those citations will often point to dead links, or to pages that may have been updated/edited since the Wikipedia page was originally written and no longer back up the original claims. There've been numerous times I've seen multiple citations for a single claim on an article, and every single link the citations point to are either dead links or don't actually say what the claim was, at all.
Hopefully this helps to clear up a lot of that mess!
There's a bot that goes through and identifies link rot so editors have a backlog queue of them to go through.
You can also check for dead links on the internet archive or archive.is.