Hi all,
Today, I accidentally discovered a massive amount of copyvios from
Microsoft Encarta in the german wikipedia by a single user (who
unfortunately used an excessive amount of sockpuppet accounts). For
anyone interested, the list of detected copyvios is here:
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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Peterlustig/Encarta_URVs
What we did was: go through all the article contributions by this user
manually, pick the bigger text insertions and then look up the entries
in encarta and other sources. We discovered a lot of copyvios like this,
but since I don't even know all the sockpuppets this user had, we have
no idea how many more there are still in wikipedia.
I wonder if we could use the toolserver for a good copyvio check system.
Wikimedia germany could easily sponsor Britannica, Encarta and Brockhaus
DVDs which serve as a text base for comparison (if we manage to access
the texts somehow).
It would be great if someone or more people together would like to work
on this - apart from vandal fighting tools this should have top priority.
greetings,
elian