Correction: There is a tool that automatically checks for copyright infringement. It is called CopyPatrol
https://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol/en James On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 8:02 AM, Gnangarra <[email protected]> wrote: > I cant believe this > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/The_World_Contest > has > got WMF funding, the idea of trying to create 100,000 stub articles on > english wikipedia without any thought to how it'll impact on the > community. > > I find it ironic that a competition is being funded to encourage current > contributors to do what we wont accept from new editors. If a new editor > was to create an article it wouldnt pass through the Articles for Creation > process because its half the size of the minimum set there. Many of the > competition articles will just get tagged CSD - A1, A7, A9 even G2 > > While there is a nice bot that will count the size of the prose, there is > no automated process for checking copyright violations, checking for > notability and most importantly checking for BLP with the aim of 100,000 > the community will years to clean up the mess that is about to be created. > > we are 15 days from this disaster commencing > > -- > G > nangarra > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
