It should be relatively easy to catch a significant percentage of those copyright violations with the assistance of automated search tools. The trick is to do it at a large scale in near-realtime, which might require some computationally intensive and bandwidth intensive work. James, can I suggest that you take this discussion to Wiki-Research-l? There are a number of ways that the copyright violation problem could be addressed and I think this would be a good subject for discussion on that list, or at Wikimania. Depending on how the discussion on Research goes, it might be good to invite some dev or tech ops people to participate in the discussion as well.
Pine On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Leigh Thelmadatter <osama...@hotmail.com> wrote: > This is one of the best ideas Ive read on here! > > > > Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:00:28 -0600 > > From: jmh...@gmail.com > > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; eloque...@gmail.com; > fschulenb...@wikimedia.org; ladsgr...@gmail.com; jorlow...@gmail.com; > madman.enw...@gmail.com; west.andre...@gmail.com > > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Catching copy and pasting early > > > > Come across another few thousand edits of copy and paste violations again > > today. These have occurred over more than a year. It is wearing me out. > > Really what is the point on collaborating on Wikipedia if it is simply a > > copyright violation. We need a solution and one has been proposed here a > > couple of years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Turnitin > > > > We now need programmers to carry it out. The Wiki Education Foundation > has > > expressed interest. We will need support from the foundation as this > > software will likely need to mesh closely with edits as they come in. I > am > > willing to offer $5,000 dollars Canadian (almost the same as American) > for > > a working solution that tags potential copyright issues in near real time > > with a greater than 90% accuracy. It is to function on at least all > medical > > and pharmacology articles but I would not complain if it worked on all of > > Wikipedia. The WMF is free to apply. > > > > -- > > James Heilman > > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > > > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > > www.opentextbookofmedicine.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
