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

rupert THURNER rupert.thurner at gmail.com
Thu Nov 14 13:36:56 UTC 2013


There is such a case in http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Cameroon,
reference is on the talk page. would you be so kind to mark or refer to it
correctly?

rupert
Am 13.11.2013 12:46 schrieb "Marco Chiesa" <chiesa.marco at gmail.com>:

> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Chris McKenna <cmckenna at sucs.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > The problem isn't that we're waiting for perfection. We're waiting for
> the
> > proportion of false positives and false negatives to fall to a level
> where
> > don't overwhelm the true positives.
> >
> >
> To avoid false positives from mirrors, the best option is to compare a text
> as soon as it is saved. Also, you exclude certain websites from the
> comparison because you know they're the mirrors, you exclude rollbacks, ...
> Then, it is better to have a human checking that it is really a copyvio (it
> could well be a public domain text, or another Wikipedia article).
>
> Marco
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