>>A question - how hard is it to write a bot that runs contributions
through Google and flags it based on the degree of match and whether a
footnote exists or not?

One such bot existed called corensearchbot which used yahoo to flag copyvios. But yahoo changed its terms of service and it had be to stopped.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-09-05/Opinion_essay

last week in a conversation in jimbowales talk page in en wiki, jimmy said he and coren were talking to google to allow this free of charge or something and something good is to be expected in the near future (i am not sure, i might be mangling his meaning).


On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Gautam John <gautam@prathambooks.org> wrote:
On 10 September 2011 14:51, Swaroop Rao <raul.swaroop@gmail.com> wrote:

> The subject of the mail is a bit ironic actually ;) Anyway, I guess the
> copyvios should be ironed out once Online Ambassadors step in.

Now that you mention it... I wonder if they were trying to be sardonic.

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam
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