[WikiEN-l] Copyright Violation Bot

Matthew Brown morven at gmail.com
Thu Dec 21 22:34:16 UTC 2006


On 12/21/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/21/06, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Trying to go through the entire database by finding random pages and
> > taking random lines seems extremely hit-and-miss to me, and if you
> > have to worry about mirrors and false positives then I can't see how
> > that would possibly be productive. The odds of finding a copyvio are
> > going to be quite low, and the amount of time needed to sort through
> > them is going to be quite high.
>
> Daniel Brandt managed it.

Daniel Brandt is an obsessive with way too much time on his hands, it
seems.  Not a practical solution to the overall problem.

-Matt



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