Re: [Foundation-l] The WikiNews fork - for lack of a copyvio detection bot half a project was lost - Wikimedia-l

14 Sep 2011

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  From: Tempodivalse &lt;r2d2.strauss(a)verizon.net&gt;
 To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
 Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:30:44 -0500 (CDT)
 Subject: [Foundation-l] The WikiNews fork - for lack of a copyvio detection bot half a
project was lost
 CorenSearchBot would be quite useful for both Wikinews and OpenGlobe;
 in general, I think wiki projects should take advantage of copyright searches
 more often. If anyone can install the bot on OpenGlobe, please post at our Village
 Pump.

 Regards,

 -Tempodivalse 

CorenSearchBot has not been operational for several months since Yahoo
stopped allowing automated queries.  Bing's terms of use don't permit
this either and apparently the same is true for Google.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CorenSearchBot

I do like the idea of a place to request bots for projects other than
en.wiki (not *global* bots, but bots running locally by request).
Things like the unsigned bot.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Desired_bots