As a comp sci guy myself, I'll be interested in assisting with that endeavor.
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#Terin Stock
On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Brian McNeil wrote:
> RE: theopenglobe.org (
http://theopenglobe.org) fork.
>
> On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 09:56 -0400, pi zero wrote:
> > Most of the enforced standards on en.wn --- for purposes of review
> > time, which *is* the primary limiting factor in our output --- are
> > about not plagiarizing, and about being accurate. (It's striking how
> > many people, even college students, have no clue how to use a source
> > without plagiarizing from it.) *Obviously* we want to find ways to
> > leverage reviewers' time better so as to improve our efficiency at
> > such things (I'd like to think it's obvious, anyway; focusing on stuff
> > like that would be productive), but whatever it takes to enforce those
> > things is part of being a news site. There are other really important
> > things that make contributing a challenge, but they aren't dominant in
> > limiting our output and are also part of being news site or of being a
> > quality news site (and they too are valuable skills for authors to
> > acquire) --- focusing on a news event (which makes us hard news and is
> > closely related to npov), inverted pyramid style, writing clearly and
> > for an international audience.
>
> We've often talked about partially automating plagiarism checking, but
> never actually implemented such.
>
> To me, it seems like an interesting CompSci challenge. I believe there
> are a number of tools used in education to deal with part of the
> problem. However, our requirements are a little different from checking
> for "student ripped off final year paper from graduate at college X
> written three years ago".
>
> I've a hunch that some interest, and a slightly clearer definition of
> requirements, would make it an interesting Google Summer of Code
> challenge/project.
>
> In any case, give TheOpenGlobe a few months and see if they fare any
> better in a GoogleFight[1]. ;-)
>
> [1]
>
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=theopenglobe&w...
>
>
>
> Brian McNeil.
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