Thanks James
Just out of curiosity, the other day I found two articles with a long
section with identical wording, only names and numbers had been
changed. Example:
The town of ... has a population of .. . The town is know for
its challenges in fighting poverty. According to local authorit
1) Yes the source code is available. User:Eran has posted it here
https://github.com/valhallasw/plagiabot
2) This bot ONLY works on new edits within a couple of hours of them
occurring. This reducing the number of false positives. It DOES NOT look at
old edits.
3) This requires human follow up an
Hi James
I often suspect copy-paste and find exact matches of the text
elsewhere. However, whereas one can painstakingly (unless there is a
trick that I am not aware of) ascertain when text was enetered into
an article, it is not always possible to know when the other text
first appeared on the i
Hi, James.
Is the source code available anywhere?
IF you want to try your bot in other languages, I could help you with
testing in Russian Wikipedia :)
Best regards.
rubin16
2015-04-03 12:07 GMT+03:00 James Heilman :
> The new and improved version of the copy and detection bot that we at [[WP:
The new and improved version of the copy and detection bot that we at [[WP:
MED]] have been using for nearly a year [
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EranBot/Copyright here] is nearly ready
to be expanded to other topic areas.
It can be found here [
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EranBot/Co