Re: [Wikimedia-l] Catching copy and pasting early

2014-07-21 Thread Pine W
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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Catching copy and pasting early

2014-07-21 Thread Jane Darnell
Isn't that what Corenbot does/did? I always found it very confusing though whenever I ran into it, and the false positives are huge (so many sites copy Wikimedia content these days) On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: It should be relatively easy to catch a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Catching copy and pasting early

2014-07-21 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
This has nothing to do with wiki-research-l, it's mostly about who can pay for the API keys. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Web_search Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Catching copy and pasting early

2014-07-21 Thread rupert THURNER
hi james, this sounds interesting. the only obstacle i see is that neither the service nor the software nor the database are open. by using turnitin we would give up on the principle of opening contents, at least in this area. this might be perceived bad for opening content, editor retention, and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Catching copy and pasting early

2014-07-21 Thread Leigh Thelmadatter
I dont know if we have to work with Turn-it-in per se. Given that most copy-paste is from digital sources, we could start with a program/tool to search the web, which could lessen the burden on editors significantly by itself. (Speaking as a writing teacher, I can tell you this is how I find

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Nederland in June

2014-07-21 Thread Sandra Rientjes Wikimedia Nederland
The report on Wikimedia Nederland activities in June is available: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederland/201406 It is also included as text in this message. Sandra Rientjes Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland *COMMUNITY: supporting and