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

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Matthew Flaschen, 20/11/2013 06:05:
> 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

That bot links a code (Coren's) that asks a key. So either the user is 
paying one himself, or he got the WMF's one some time ago: in both 
cases, he can't give it to more people.

Nemo