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

[Matthew Flaschen]

On 11/13/2013 04:57 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MadmanBot is still running on English 
Wikipedia, which uses the same Yahoo APIs 
(http://www.uberbox.org/~marc/csb.pl).

It might be possible to run it on Italian Wikipedia as well, even 
without generating a new key.  The operator seems to be 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Madman

Matt Flaschen