[Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

[Gerard Meijssen]

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 at 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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