Aside @Fae: the tineye crew are curious & quite pro-freeculture, I bet they would be glad to help design a bot that uses their API to check image copyvios. On Nov 13, 2013 6:48 AM, "Fæ" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 13 November 2013 07:40, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > > Our biggest issue is copyright infringement. > ... > > Thanks for raising this James. > > Yes, this is an issue but if you are gunning for elephants this month, > I really don't think the copyright elephant is the biggest one in the > herd. > > As a practical example of the tools we already have in place, > yesterday I was facilitating an edit-a-thon for women in science with > King's College London and we had one of the example stubs we had > created on the English Wikipedia up on a projector. Within literally > *minutes* of creation it had been (correctly) flagged by a bot as a > possible copyright violation as some of the text had been cut & past > from King's own website; one of the participants quickly re-wrote it > using their own words. As the communications manager was sitting next > to me at the time, no doubt she found this rather reassuring, even > though in parallel she was asking about how best to "officially" > release text. :-) > > We have a more complex problem with how images uploaded to Wikimedia > Commons can be flagged where they match images found elsewhere on the > internet, this is something that may be done by a future bot but we > might need to partner with someone like Google Images or Tineye to > make this truly effective. Having run my own experimental bots on this > area, I would love to see this become a funded project. > > PS with regard to OTRS verification, we could do with better standards > for verification, at the moment volunteers like myself are left to use > our own judgement about what checks to make. I tend to double check > text or images being released with Google, just in case, as well as > doing "whois" checks on email domains. These sorts of checks could > become part of OTRS guidelines and would make the reliability of OTRS > tickets a notch higher. > > Cheers, > Fae > -- > [email protected] http://j.mp/faewm > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
