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
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