If you go under RecentChanges at the top of the Wiki, there is a list of all the things that have happend.
The history will show you what was added/edited/deleted for that pages history. You can reference this if the bots remove the conent all together. Most of the bots I have seen just add the content to the top of the page, and leave all the original content in place below it.
Other key to find whats been changed is names of the changers. Bot names on the wiki are normally 6 digits alpha-numeric. Looking at it right now, today there was two bots that modded "eqhost" and "EQvercheck" pages, and if you look at thier names, you see what I mean. Yesterday, DoNoHarm went through and fixed lots of pages.
The biggest part though that deters me from jumping over there to clean it up is the lack of prevention from the dev team that has control over the core of the wiki. Features need to be implemnted to prevent bots on it. You could severly cut down the amount of junk just by my turning on email verification. Furthermore, they could give someone added control over the wiki other than a few changes here and there. Admin privleages to delete accounts to prevent spam, and stop it when it happens. We have no control over the wiki, other than to clean up the mess bots leave behind, every day, every week, every month, ect.... I for one am not going to go cleaning up the same thing every single day cause someone cant turn on a couple options to prevent such garbage.
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