On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:40 AM, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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. > Back in 2007 we found out a user on it.wp, a former sysop, with more than 40,000 edits that used to copy-paste from his sources, often outdated. He was banned, and the community made a great effort to cleanup the articles he contributed to (and damn it was hard, because those articles had a long history after his edits). And in the following years, we had other similar cases, you can find a selection here: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Cococo/Controlli_conclusi There are bots that go and look whether a newly inserted block of text is already present somewhere else, it doesn't find everything (of course it won't find things copied from a printed book), but sooner or later serial copyviolers get caught, and the fall from hero to zero is sooo quick. At the end of the day, I think copyvios have always been taken seriously, so that I don't remember big problems with that, while there have always been more problems with libel, privacy, and editor retention. Marco (Cruccone) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>