Just a few points inline. :)

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:50 AM, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote:

> To clarify the proposal is:
>
> 1) only looking at new edits that add blocks of text over a certain size
>
> 2) only tagging those edits on a workspace page for further follow-up by
> an experienced human editor
>
> 3) only running on articles of WikiProjects that want it and are willing
> to follow-up (thus only WPMED for starters)
>
> What it is NOT is: a tool to add notices to article space, a tool to warn
> users on their talk pages, or a tool to look at old edits. It is also NOT
> many other things. This is a very narrow proposal.
>
> With respect to users who are adding content they own which they have
> previously had published. What you do is you get them in an email to agree
> to release it under a CC BY SA license and then send that email to OTRS.
>
>
Alternatively, they can skip this step if they are reproducing materials
from their own website by adding a release to that website.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DCM talks about how. I speak to
that based on my volunteer experience, not my work experience. :)

One further point - if they are the *sole* copyright holder contributing
their own text work to Wikipedia, it must be colicensed under GFDL
according to our terms of use
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use#7._Licensing_of_Content>
.

Maggie




> With respect to the number of edits, WPMED gets about 1000 a day. If we
> say about 10% are of a significant size (a rather high estimate) and if we
> say copy and paste issues occur in 10% with a same number of false
> positives we are looking at 20 edits to review a day. Those within the
> project are able to handle this volume in a timely manner.
>
> --
> James Heilman
> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
>
> The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
> www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
>
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