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 authorities, trhey have undertaken housing and sanitation projects bla bla bla.
When I queried it, the author of the earlier article responded to say that 'it was acceptable' so that beginners could find it easier to start writing articles. From that I dug deeper and discovered that he had tutored the writer of the derived article. Regards, and a great weekend, Rui 2015-04-04 3:49 GMT+02:00 James Heilman <[email protected]>: > 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 and common sense. One needs to make sure > that a) the source is not PD/CCBYSA b) that it is not wiki text that has > been moved around c) that the authors of both are not the same, etc > > 4) True positive rate is around 50% which is from my perspective good / > useful. This bot has flagged a lot of copyright issues would have been > missed otherwise. > > -- > 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> -- _________________________ Rui Correia Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Work Consultant Bridge to Angola - Angola Liaison Consultant Mobile Number in South Africa +27 74 425 4186 Número de Telemóvel na África do Sul +27 74 425 4186 _______________ _______________________________________________ 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>
