Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright issues

2019-06-18 Thread Asaf Bartov
(Doc James is too modest to give himself credit, so it falls to me to point out that the tool was his own idea; I witnessed the birth of it at Wikimania 2014, when I connected him to Eran, who implemented the first version of the tool before the end of the conference.) A. On Tue, Jun 18, 2019

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright issues

2019-06-17 Thread James Heilman
Clarifying one small bit, the "copypatrol" tool was initially developed by Eran (a Wikimedia volunteer from Israel). It was than further developed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Agree that it is a great success, not only with respect to the final result but with respect to it being a successful

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright issues

2019-06-17 Thread Yaroslav Blanter
Actually, I am afraid, for CCI at some point we will have to remove all added text by bot. I do not see any other scalable solution. Cheers Yaroslav On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 5:36 PM Stephen Philbrick < stephen.w.philbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have seen a couple comments on copyright issues in

[Wikimedia-l] Copyright issues

2019-06-17 Thread Stephen Philbrick
I have seen a couple comments on copyright issues in the last couple days so I thought I'd share some information that I think may be not well-known by everyone. Very roughly, copyright issues (text) can be viewed in three categories: 1. Addition of copyrighted material to articles in years past,