James and others, I would like to encourage you to participate in the discussion now happening on the Research mailing list. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2014-July/date.html
Pine On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 2:58 AM, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > @ Pine: I am looking for someone to lead / coordinate this effort, thus me > putting up the funding offer. Yes it may require a number of developers. I > do not know where these people hang out or how to convince them to do the > work. The coordinator be required to figure this out. > > @Jane: No Corenbot just looked at new pages. This is a proposal to look at > new edits as they come in. They key is looking at "NEW EDITS" as they come > in. Not 10 minutes later. Not 2 days later. This will deal with the false > positives you mention. You need to get them before other sites copy from > Wikipedia. Also Turnitin is updated a little slower than google. We would > use their database before the new content was added. > > @Nemo: Turnitin has agreed to give us free access to their API keys. No > money changing hands. > > @Rupert: Please see reply to Nemo. With respect to access we would want 10 > years worth anyway. One is able to access closed content through google > books and scholar right now. Have you read the "memorandum of > understanding" with Turnitin? There is no link spam allowed. Some companies > are willing to do stuff that does not cost them anything because they like > the idea. Not every for profit is evil to the core. If someone can build an > effective system another way that is even more open than this the money is > still theirs. > > -- > 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 > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
