This is one of the best ideas Ive read on here!
> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:00:28 -0600 > From: jmh...@gmail.com > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; eloque...@gmail.com; > fschulenb...@wikimedia.org; ladsgr...@gmail.com; jorlow...@gmail.com; > madman.enw...@gmail.com; west.andre...@gmail.com > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Catching copy and pasting early > > Come across another few thousand edits of copy and paste violations again > today. These have occurred over more than a year. It is wearing me out. > Really what is the point on collaborating on Wikipedia if it is simply a > copyright violation. We need a solution and one has been proposed here a > couple of years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Turnitin > > We now need programmers to carry it out. The Wiki Education Foundation has > expressed interest. We will need support from the foundation as this > software will likely need to mesh closely with edits as they come in. I am > willing to offer $5,000 dollars Canadian (almost the same as American) for > a working solution that tags potential copyright issues in near real time > with a greater than 90% accuracy. It is to function on at least all medical > and pharmacology articles but I would not complain if it worked on all of > Wikipedia. The WMF is free to apply. > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > www.opentextbookofmedicine.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
