[WikiEN-l] Copyright Violation Bot

[James Hare]

C'mon, how not? People with too much time have the time to improve
Wikipedia!

On 12/21/06, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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