plagiabot

Plagiabot is a copyright violation detection bot.

Repository for Turntin-based plagiarism detection for Wikipedia. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Turnitin for details.

Running the bot

The bot support standard pywikibot page generators - for most of them it check the latest revision. The bot also supports special generators to check specific edit based on the diff:

• recentchanges (DB based)
• recentchanges_api (api based)
• live - recent changes using streaming or IRC

See command line help for more details

valhallasw@lisilwen:~/src/plagiabot$ python -i plagiabot.py
Logging in...
Finding folder to upload into, with name 'Wikipedia'...
Upload test text to iThenticate...
Polling iThenticate until document has been processed... . . .
Part #14558041 has a 62% match. Getting details...
Details are available on https://api.ithenticate.com/report/14557806/similarity
Sources found were:
 * I  62% 42 words at http://lrd.yahooapis.com/_ylc=X3oDMTVnb2
 * I  62% 42 words at http://lrd.yahooapis.com/_ylc=X3oDMTVncn
 * I  62% 42 words at http://lrd.yahooapis.com/_ylc=X3oDMTU4aD
 * I  62% 42 words at http://www.games2.about2006.com/aboutsit
 * I  62% 42 words at http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/All_your_b
 * I  62% 42 words at http://plumbot.com/All_your_base_are_bel
 * I  62% 42 words at http://lembolies.com/Your
 * I  62% 42 words at http://dvdradix.com/capture-flash-video-
 * I  62% 42 words at http://www.dvdradix.com/capture-flash-vi
 * I  62% 42 words at http://www.reachinformation.com/define/A
 * I  60% 41 words at http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/se/
 * I  60% 41 words at http://www.buellersdownunder.com/archive
 * I  38% 26 words at http://lrd.yahooapis.com/_ylc=X3oDMTVnbm

API

You can query suspected diffs using the API available in: http://tools.wmflabs.org/eranbot/plagiabot/api.py

Examples:

• http://tools.wmflabs.org/eranbot/plagiabot/api.py?action=suspected_diffs
• http://tools.wmflabs.org/eranbot/plagiabot/api.py?action=suspected_diffs&format=csv
• http://tools.wmflabs.org/eranbot/plagiabot/api.py?action=suspected_diffs&page_title=Rajesh_Khanna&report=1

i18n

The bot supports English, French, Portuguese and Hebrew.

For running the bot on new languages:

1. Make sure ithenticate backend index pages in the desired language: http://www.ithenticate.com/products/faqs
2. Add relevant messages to help the bot skip reverted edits

UI

The bot can either generate simple wiki report pages, or write to a database to be used by other tools.

See also: https://github.com/wikimedia/CopyPatrol

Useful links:

• http://www.ithenticate.com/hs-fs/hub/92785/file-1383985272-pdf/iTh_documentation/iThenticate_API_Manual.pdf