Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] Catching copy and pasting early

-- Andrew G. West, PhD Research Scientist Verisign Labs - Reston, VA Website: http://www.andrew-g-west.com On 07/21/2014 03:52 AM, Jane Darnell wrote: > Isn't that what Corenbot does/did? I always found it very confusing > though whenever I ran into it, and the false positives are huge (so many > sites copy Wikimedia content these days) > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com > mailto:wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote: > > It should be relatively easy to catch a significant percentage of those > copyright violations with the assistance of automated search tools. The > trick is to do it at a large scale in near-realtime, which might require > some computationally intensive and bandwidth intensive work. James, > can I > suggest that you take this discussion to Wiki-Research-l? There are a > number of ways that the copyright violation problem could be > addressed and > I think this would be a good subject for discussion on that list, or at > Wikimania. Depending on how the discussion on Research goes, it might be > good to invite some dev or tech ops people to participate in the > discussion > as well. > > Pine > > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Leigh Thelmadatter > <osamadre@hotmail.com mailto:osamadre@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > > This is one of the best ideas Ive read on here! > > > > > > > Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:00:28 -0600 > > > From: jmh649@gmail.com mailto:jmh649@gmail.com > > > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; eloquence@gmail.com > mailto:eloquence@gmail.com; > > fschulenburg@wikimedia.org mailto:fschulenburg@wikimedia.org; > ladsgroup@gmail.com mailto:ladsgroup@gmail.com; > jorlowitz@gmail.com mailto:jorlowitz@gmail.com; > > madman.enwiki@gmail.com mailto:madman.enwiki@gmail.com; > west.andrew.g@gmail.com mailto:west.andrew.g@gmail.com > > > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Catching copy and pasting early > > > > > > Come across another few thousand edits of copy and paste > violations again > > > today. These have occurred over more than a year. It is wearing > me out. > > > Really what is the point on collaborating on Wikipedia if it is > simply a > > > copyright violation. We need a solution and one has been > proposed here a > > > couple of years ago > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Turnitin > > > > > > We now need programmers to carry it out. The Wiki Education > Foundation > > has > > > expressed interest. We will need support from the foundation as > this > > > software will likely need to mesh closely with edits as they > come in. I > > am > > > willing to offer $5,000 dollars Canadian (almost the same as > American) > > for > > > a working solution that tags potential copyright issues in near > real time > > > with a greater than 90% accuracy. It is to function on at least all > > medical > > > and pharmacology articles but I would not complain if it worked > on all of > > > Wikipedia. The WMF is free to apply. > > > > > > -- > > > James Heilman > > > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > > > > > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > > > www.opentextbookofmedicine.com > http://www.opentextbookofmedicine.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > mailto:Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > mailto:Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >