Based on my own experience on en.wn, I believe copyright/plagiary detection cannot be fully automated without introducing horrific errors, for the same reason translation can't be: doing the task properly requires knowing what the text means.
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:47 AM, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> > _______________________________________________ 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>
