Daniel Mayer wrote:
Robert Michel wrote:
PS: Search engines like Yahoo could be a good partner to get support to use their server more than 1000 times a day, for example with a script which check every new entry if it was only a copy&paste from one webpage or newsposting.
But yes, that would require more than 1000 searches a day from a single IP address.
As already mentioned on the german list, Google offers an increased query limit for their free service. I wrote an email months ago and their answer was, that they need a description of the project/program to decide. I'm sure that they would give a more-queries-donation to Wikipedia.
We could get around that by coordinating copyvio bot use by several users from each wiki, but IMO a better way to do it would be to have the bot become part of MediaWiki and for the service to be run by the Wikimedia servers. That will require special permission to exceed the 1000 search a day limit.
I agree that such a bot would be preferrable a part of the Wikimedia- software, but i don't think that a service like e.g. Google would give us so much queries per day that a check of every edit is possible. A kind of distributed copyright-check is in discussion for de:.
Regards, Nils.