[Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot -- #DelayedMail

[Gautam John]

On 12 November 2011 18:55, Swaroop Rao <raul.swaroop at gmail.com> wrote:

> It used to be easier to spot copyvios on English Wikipedia earlier, but due
> to some issues with Google, the bot which detected the copyvios (CorenBot)
> is no longer running, though I have come to understand that Jimmy and Coren
> are having talks with Google on this.

Fair enough. Just that at the scale the India program will run at, a
technology solution might very well be a easier first step than human
interventions.

> I think sandbox editing before going to mainspace would work out well here.
> But a sandbox in a Chapter hosted wiki doesn't seem right to me, because it
> is almost totally disconnected from the ground realities at English
> Wikipedia. Also, editing on an enwiki sandbox will enable better feedback

Quite possibly correct. Just wondering about it in terms of DMCA
liability for the WMF and more.

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam
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