[Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki at gmail.com
Wed Nov 13 09:57:21 UTC 2013


Marco Chiesa, 13/11/2013 10:21:
> There are bots that go and look whether a newly inserted block of text is
> already present somewhere else, [...]

Rectius: there *used* to be a bot (RevertBot, Lusumbot). The program 
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/copyright.py> has been 
stopped when search engines changed their limits and Lusum has been 
waiting for the WMF's Yahoo! BOSS key, needed to run the bot, for a while.

Nemo



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