Thanks James
Just out of curiosity, the other day I found two articles with a long section with identical wording, only names and numbers had been changed. Example: The town of ....... has a population of ...... . The town is know for its challenges in fighting poverty. According to local authorities, trhey have undertaken housing and sanitation projects bla bla bla.
When I queried it, the author of the earlier article responded to say that 'it was acceptable' so that beginners could find it easier to start writing articles. From that I dug deeper and discovered that he had tutored the writer of the derived article.
Regards, and a great weekend,
Rui
2015-04-04 3:49 GMT+02:00 James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com:
- Yes the source code is available. User:Eran has posted it here
https://github.com/valhallasw/plagiabot
- This bot ONLY works on new edits within a couple of hours of them
occurring. This reducing the number of false positives. It DOES NOT look at old edits.
- This requires human follow up and common sense. One needs to make sure
that a) the source is not PD/CCBYSA b) that it is not wiki text that has been moved around c) that the authors of both are not the same, etc
- True positive rate is around 50% which is from my perspective good /
useful. This bot has flagged a lot of copyright issues would have been missed otherwise.
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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