A Letter from Turnitin to the Wikipedia Community

Hello Wikipedia editors,

We at Turnitin are committed to delivering solutions for evaluating and improving student writing through technology. We see great benefit from the possibility of collaborating with Wikipedia:

• We are excited to improve and advance Wikipedia's goals. Your encyclopedia is a true public good and an indispensable tool for student writers
• We want to promote the importance of original content and proper attribution and ideas in written work.
• We want to expand the use of our technology into new areas. Working to tune Turnitin’s search algorithms to meet the requirements of this initiative would not only help Wikipedia, but it would also to improve the overall quality of Turnitin’s database searches, benefitting all of our users.
• We recognize that a benefit of this collaboration would be to raise awareness of Turnitin among the Wikipedia community as plagiarism and copyright detection tool.

Overall, we feel confident that our company is well positioned to provide the level of support that an initiative of this scale would entail. We're happy to answer any questions about our background, our approach, or our capabilities for this project. Hopefully we can collaborate and really make an impact on the way Wikipedia investigates and handles copyright.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts and exploring the possibility of working together in the future.

Sincerely,

Charrick (talk) 21:18, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Have a question, thought, comment, or concern? Ask Turnitin directly below...

• What about running all new text additions through Turnitin? Do to so much text in journals / textbooks / government reports being copied from Wikipedia without attribution not to mention mirror sites looking at content that has been on Wikipedia for anything more than a very brief period will be difficult. Looking at new edits only will get rid of the mirror site issue. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 11:31, 4 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• How about going international even for the trial? In the Netherlands we have a couple of large sets of existing pages where we now have reason to doubt the originality. The number is too big for manual check to be completed in a reasonable amount of time. _W^\|/_haledad (Talk to me) 21:42, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:Whaledad Bot software is freely available. Email me and I will send it to you. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:42, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]