Hi Benjamin, My name is Leila and I'm in the Research team in Wikimedia Foundation. Please see below.
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 12:59 AM Benjamin Lees <emufarm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The community has been working on copyright violation issues for a long > time.[2] There are probably ways the WMF could support improvements in > this area. Maybe the WMF could even design some system that would > magically solve the problem. But it's certainly not the community standing > in the way. While I understand that you brought this up as one example within a broader context and set of challenges, now that you have brought it up, I'd like to ask you for a specific guidance. Can you help me understand, in your view, what are some of the most pressing issues on this front from the perspective of those who work to detect and address copyright violations? (Not knowing a lot about this space, my first thought is to have better algorithms to detect copyright violations in Wikipedia (?) text (?) across many languages. Is this the most pressing issue?) Some more info about how we work at the end of this email.[4] Best, Leila > [1] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed_article_creation_trial > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_violations#Resources > Also consider > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-November/128777.html > back in 2013. [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations [4] To give you some more information about the context I operate in: * Part of the work of our team is to listen to community conversations in lists such as wikimedia-l to find research questions/directions to work on. If we can understand the problem space clearly and define research questions bsaed on, we can work on priorities with the corresponding communities and start the research on these questions ourselves or through our Formal Collaborations program [3]. * The types of problems that we can work (relatively) more quickly on are those for which the output can be an API, data-set, or knowledge. * We won't start the research based on hearing the most pressing issues from you. If we see that based on your response there is a promising direction for further research, we will follow up (with the corresponding parts of the community involved in this space) to learn more about the general and specific problems. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
