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

Chris McKenna cmckenna at sucs.org
Wed Nov 13 11:39:24 UTC 2013


On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>
> The point I want to make is that having a tool that is KNOWN to be
> deficient in specific ways can still be a huge advantage over not having a
> tool at all. So PLEASE lets not make perfection the enemy of the good.

The problem isn't that we're waiting for perfection. We're waiting for the 
proportion of false positives and false negatives to fall to a level where 
don't overwhelm the true positives.

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