[Foundation-l] The WikiNews fork - for lack of a copyvio detection bot half a project was lost

[WereSpielChequers]

I think the responses are a credit to Wikinews. This one
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikinews-l/2011-September/002035.html
in particular. It seems that they need something like CorenSearchBot to
trackdown copyvio and plagiarism.

I appreciate that lack of coding resource isn't the only problem in smaller
projects, but it may be one of the easier ones to make a difference on. I've
had a couple of people do some coding for me just by making requests at the
EN wiki bot requests page, now I realise if we were designing the project
from scratch we'd have the spam filter and the bot requests page on Meta not
EN wiki. But some problems are easier to work around than to fix. What I'm
not sure about is, is this a communication issue, with people not knowing
who to ask or asking the Foundation instead of asking for volunteer support;
Or is this a shortage of volunteers willing to write code? If its the former
then maybe it would help for each project to have a page explaining how you
request Bot support with a link to the EN wiki Bot requests page. If its the
latter then maybe we can help via hacking days such as the one the UK is
planning for later this year, or even by going outside the movement and
asking for volunteers willing to cut code.

Regards


WereSpielChequers

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> Message: 10
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:51:11 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Tempodivalse <r2d2.strauss at verizon.net>
> Subject: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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>  On 12 September 2011 21:02, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Any comment from the Wikinews contributors who just posted to
> > foundation-l saying everything was fine and people saying it wasn't
> > were clueless?
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> Several Wikinews regulars have made comments about the fork on wikinews-l,
> if
> anyone wants to see another viewpoint on OpenGlobe and the future of
> Wikinews:
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> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikinews-l/2011-September/002034.html(and
> several posts following)
>
> Regards.
>
> -Tempodivalse
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