(Doc James is too modest to give himself credit, so it falls to me to point
out that the tool was his own idea; I witnessed the birth of it at
Wikimania 2014, when I connected him to Eran, who implemented the first
version of the tool before the end of the conference.)
A.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 2:27 AM James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Clarifying one small bit, the "copypatrol"
tool was initially developed by
Eran (a Wikimedia volunteer from Israel). It was than further developed by
the Wikimedia Foundation. Agree that it is a great success, not only with
respect to the final result but with respect to it being a successful
collaborative project between the foundation and the community.
James
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:36 AM Yaroslav Blanter <ymbalt(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Actually, I am afraid, for CCI at some point we
will have to remove all
added text by bot. I do not see any other scalable solution.
Cheers
Yaroslav
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 5:36 PM Stephen Philbrick <
stephen.w.philbrick(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I have seen a couple comments on copyright issues in the last couple
days
so I
thought I'd share some information that I think may be not
well-known
> by everyone.
>
> Very roughly, copyright issues (text) can be viewed in three
categories:
> 1. Addition of copyrighted material to
articles in years past, not yet
> removed (one-off)
> 2. Same as above, except by a serial violator
> 3. Close to real-time edits which may include copyrighted material
>
> The reason for distinguishing these three categories is that our
approach
> and success rates are very different.
>
> In case 1, an editor identifies what they believe to be a copyright
issue
in an
existing article. They can report it to
Wikipedia:Copyright_problems.
In the case of a single issue or a very small
handful of issues, those
items are identified and taken care of by volunteers. (I think this
aspect
> is handled adequately — I used to be active there but haven't been
> recently)
>
> The second case arises when a potential violation is identified. An
> examination of the editors contributions reveals many examples
(typically
five or
more). If this occurs, it is referred to Wikipedia:Contributor
copyright investigations. A CCI is opened, and the intent is to examine
every single edit by that editor. This aspect is extremely backlogged.
I've
> spent many hours working on CCI's, but it isn't easy, it isn't
rewarding,
> and it is discouraging because I think the
backlog is increasing rather
> than decreasing. (This isn't due to newly created copyright issues but
> newly found ones.)
>
> The third case is handled by Copy Patrol, a foundation created tool
that
examines
all new edits in close to real time and generates a report,
which
> is handled by volunteers.
>
> I want to emphasize this third aspect for multiple reasons. I think it
is
one of
the least known tools. Some of the prior emails on the subject
leave
the impression that the authors are unaware of
the existence of this
tool.
> On the one hand, it works very well, as almost all of the several
hundred
reports
each week are reviewed, most within 24 hours.
Good news:
* Copy Patrol is working, so my guess is that the growth in true
copyright
issues is close to nonexistent.
Bad news:
* Copy Patrol is adequately staffed but just barely. One editor is
responsible for the handling of far more than half of all of these
reports
> (major kudos to Diannaa), but that much reliance on a single volunteer
is
not good
for the long-term health of the project.
* The copy patrol tool is pretty good, and was being improved for a
while,
but I've identified some desirable
improvements and my sense is that
it's a
very back burner project in terms of additional
enhancements.
* CCI clearance is going to take many years
Phil (Sphilbrick)
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