Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Archive/Add a way to tell the user if he is copywrite infringing before submitting the edit

Add a way to tell the user if he is copywrite infringing before submitting the edit

 N Technically infeasible

  • Problem: Add a way to tell the user if he is copywrite infringing before submitting the edit
  • Who would benefit: All editors of wikipedia
  • Proposed solution:
  • More comments:
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: Omar102 (talk) 11:40, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

  • @Omar102: This is a great idea! Unfortunately, we've looked into this before and it's just not feasible to run the copyright-detecting system at the time when a page is saved. It's too time-consuming. However, we do have the CopyPatrol tool, which ensures that all edits are (after saving) checked for plagiarism. — SWilson (WMF) (talk) 02:37, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]