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This user account is a bot operated by Eran (talk). It is used to make repetitive automated or semi-automated edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually, in accordance with the bot policy. The bot is approved and currently active – the relevant request for approval can be seen here.
Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it.

EranBot

This is a bot account owned by User:ערן (aka Eran).

Copy & Paste detection

This is a copy and paste detection bot based on the multi year efforts here WP:Turnitin.

How it works

All recent edits to En Wikipedia over a certain size are scanned (that wasn't there in the previous and previous-previous revisions). The text is sent to plagiarism detection service iThenticate.
Edits with similar text to external sources are consider as possible copyright violations, and are reported in the medical report page and Wikipedia wide report page.
1. If the external source is mirror of Wikipedia, it is either removed by iThenticate itself or afterwards by the bot (based on blacklist)
2. If the source is broken link the bot removes it
Each entry in the report page have the following fields: Title of the edited page, Diff with link to the relevant edit diff and page history, Editor, Source - link to report page in iThenticate (titled "report") and links to possible sources of the edit (titled "compare"), Status - Should be filled manually with TP/FP. The bot adds hints for possible good edits:
- citation - the added text mention the source. For short text it is OK (in copyright sense) and for long text it is a violation (see also Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing).
- Mirror? - the added text comes from a source that may be a possible mirror site of Wikipedia. E.g the source seems to be unknown mirror (that doesn't appear in our blacklist, but have attribution to Wikipedia). Editors can add such sites to blacklist, so they don't appear in future.
- (CC) - the added text comes from a source that probably have creative commons license.

Current state

Currently it only on all En Wikipedia. It has been a great help for medical articles. Efforts to make it more functional are ongoing. The results are being placed here WP:MED/Copyright and the bot runs 8 times per day.

There is NO plan for this bot to make edits to mainspace. There may be potential for it to expand to other languages. The concept has been discussed with the WMF legal team who are happy with it.

Who runs the bot

It is run by the Hebrew Wikipedia User:Eran. Doc James and User:Ocaasi have been guiding its development.

Source

The bot is based on pywikibot and you can find its source code in github. It is possible to run the bot in other Wikipedia languages, but to run the bot you have to request account for iThenticate.

Feel free to edit this page

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 ==How it works==
-#All recent edits to En Wikipedia over a certain size are scanned (that wasn't there in the previous and previous-previous revisions). The text is sent to ithenticate for copyright violation detection.
+#All recent edits to En Wikipedia over a certain size are scanned (that wasn't there in the previous and previous-previous revisions). The text is sent to plagiarism detection service [[iThenticate]].
 #Edits with similar text to external sources are consider as possible copyright violations, and are reported in the [[User:EranBot/Copyright|medical report page]] and [[User:EranBot/Copyright/rc|Wikipedia wide report page]].
-##If the external source is mirror of Wikipedia, it is either removed by ithenticate itself or afterwards by the bot (based on [[User:EranBot/Copyright/Blacklist|blacklist]])
+##If the external source is mirror of Wikipedia, it is either removed by iThenticate itself or afterwards by the bot (based on [[User:EranBot/Copyright/Blacklist|blacklist]])
 ##If the source is broken link the bot removes it
-#Each entry in the report page have the following fields: Title of the edited page, Diff with link to the relevant edit diff and page history, Editor, Source - link to report page in ithenticate (titled "report") and links to possible sources of the edit (titled "compare"), Status - Should be filled manually with TP/FP. The bot adds hints for possible good edits:
+#Each entry in the report page have the following fields: Title of the edited page, Diff with link to the relevant edit diff and page history, Editor, Source - link to report page in iThenticate (titled "report") and links to possible sources of the edit (titled "compare"), Status - Should be filled manually with TP/FP. The bot adds hints for possible good edits:
 #*<span class="success">citation</span> - the added text mention the source. For short text it is OK (in copyright sense) and for long text it is a violation (see also [[Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing]]).
 #*<span class="success">Mirror?</span> - the added text comes from a source that may be a possible mirror site of Wikipedia. E.g the source seems to be unknown mirror (that doesn't appear in our blacklist, but have attribution to Wikipedia). Editors can add such sites to [[User:EranBot/Copyright/Blacklist|blacklist]], so they don't appear in future.
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 ==Source==
-The bot is based on pywikibot and you can find its source code in [https://github.com/valhallasw/plagiabot github]. It is possible to run the bot in other Wikipedia languages, but to run the bot you have to request account for Ithenticate.
+The bot is based on pywikibot and you can find its source code in [https://github.com/valhallasw/plagiabot github]. It is possible to run the bot in other Wikipedia languages, but to run the bot you have to request account for iThenticate.
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