Evil I tell you. Evil! On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net> wrote:
> Anthony wrote: > > Wow, what's Wikipedia's policy about using a bot to scrape everything? > > > > I don't know about any policy, but I think it should still be > discouraged. For me this has less to do with predation on other sites > than with our inability to keep up with the volume of data that would be > produced. Proofreading and wikifying are labour-intensive processes. > It is very easy for the technically minded to bring the scan and OCR of > a 500-page book under our roof, but without the manpower to bring the > added value these processes are scarcely better than data dumps. > > Ec > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu> > wrote: > > > >> That is against the law. It violates Google's ToS. > >> > >> I'm mostly complaining that Google is being Very Evil. There is nothing > we > >> can do about it except complain to them. Which I don't know how to do - > >> they > >> apparently believe that the plain text versions of their books are akin > to > >> their intellectual property and are unwilling to give them away. > >> > >> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Falcorian wrote: > >> > >>> So the bot just has to run at human speeds so it does not get banned, > it > >>> still won't get tired or make unpredictable mistakes. And you can run > it > >>> from different IPs to parallelize. > >>> > >>> --Falcorian > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l