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

2013-11-16 Thread Anthony Cole
The problem of false positives from mirrors doesn't exist if we scan edits as they are made. Maggie says herehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Emergency_block_of_an_editor_with_which_I_have_been_previously_involvedthat copyright bots populate WP:SCV

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

2013-11-16 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 11/13/2013 04:57 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: 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

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

2013-11-16 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 11/13/2013 04:41 PM, Tobias wrote: I think the community has done a very good job in the past 12 years when it comes to copyright. It is important to see that we are a community site – nothing is ever going to be perfect, and certainly we are not free of any copyright violations. But we are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours for VisualEditor

2013-11-16 Thread MZMcBride
Martin Rulsch wrote: In German Nov 2, 24:00 equals Nov 3, 0:00. For further information have a look at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Confusion_at_noon_and_midnight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock#Midnight_00:00_and_24:00 Thanks for this. DaB. announced his

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours for VisualEditor

2013-11-16 Thread Martin Rulsch
According to the road map, the Toolserver will not be shut down before June 30, 2014. Cheers Martin 2013/11/16 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com Martin Rulsch wrote: In German Nov 2, 24:00 equals Nov 3, 0:00. For further information have a look at Wikipedia:

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

2013-11-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Marc A. Pelletier, 16/11/2013 16:34: On 11/13/2013 04:57 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: 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