Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Warn when large amount of content has been copy-pasted

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thanks

Hey @Matěj Suchánek - thanks for the wish. At first glance, it might be hard to tell if copy/pasted content is coming from an external source. For example, someone may copy and paste from within an article or from one wiki to another. Still, I think the intent of this wish is quite compelling as a means of checking and reinforcing the veracity and independence of an edit. JWheeler-WMF (talk) 21:02, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

Hey, that's a good point, and indeed a sign of possibly innoxious behavior. I can think of some options here:

• Attach a "canary" (cf. sentinel species, canary value, canary trap) when copying from Wikimedia wikis. If the canary is found on pasting, the content likely comes from a wiki. However, I guess there are some legal (privacy) implications (paste somewhere else from wiki).
• Simply search the wiki for the pasted content.
• Do not warn when the pasted content is already formatted (wikilinks, templates, etc.). This indicates it's likely from a wiki page.

Note that copy-pasting from wiki to wiki can also be problematic. Users sometimes copy-paste articles in order to change its name, instead of moving it. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 16:09, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Work is underway

As people interested in this wish, the Editing Team thought you all would value knowing work on it is underway as part of the Edit Check project.

In fact, we are actively seeking feedback about the user experience. Specifically, we're needing help thinking through what defaults might be sensible to set.

In terms of timing, before the end of this calendar year, you can expect a proof of concept to be ready for you all to try. And within the first three months of 2025, we expect - what we're calling – Paste Check to be available at an initial set of wikis. PPelberg (WMF) (talk) 22:18, 14 November 2024 (UTC)