Hoi,
Seriously we should never ever be ruled be panic.What you see is bad, no
doubt but the notion that we should dump everything because of the latest
issue to come along is way overboard.
- by stopping the flow on projects like Visual Editor you break
dependencies for the work of many developers
- what you have noticed is for only one Wikipedia not all of them
- we do need more mature discussion software what we have is horrible
- such dramatics only have you go away and upset others it does not
solve things
- the dramatics detract me from your message
- my hobby horse needs more attention too and I think my argument is
better ...
Anyway, it would be nice when someone looks at the tool with an eye of
making it happen and making it scale. When it doesn't it becomes a less
attractive option to pursue.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 13 November 2013 08:40, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The Wikimedia Foundation needs to wake up and deal
with the "real tech
elephant in the room". Our primary issue is not a lack of FLOW, a lack of a
visual editor, or a lack of a rapidly expanding education program.
Our biggest issue is copyright infringement. We have had the Indian
program, we have had issues with the Education program, and I have today
come across a user who has made nearly 20,000 edits to 1,742 article since
2006 which appear to be nearly all copy and pasted from the sources he has
used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DrMicro#Copyright_infringement
This
has seriously shaken my faith in Wikipedia.
This is especially devastating as there is a tech solution that would have
prevented it. The efforts are being worked on by volunteers here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Turnitin and has been since at
least March of 2012. We NEED all tech resource at the foundation thrown at
this project. Other less important project like FLOW and the visual editor
need to be put on hold to develop this tool.
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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