RE: 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&word2=wikinews

Brian McNeil.
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Email: brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org
WikiMedia UK, interim Scottish coordinator/GLAM-MGS liaison.
Wikinews Accredited Reporter | "Facts don't cease to be facts, but news ceases to be news."

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