Wikipedia:Turnitin

Note: This page is mostly outdated: the proposal and planned RFC were in 2012. Some parts of this page, including about alternatives, have occasionally been updated.

Note : https://copypatrol.wmcloud.org/en/ was introduced to create this functionality.

This page in a nutshell: Turnitin, a plagiarism detection company, is interested in checking all of English Wikipedia through its algorithms and content database for copyright violations, for free, on an informal, non-exclusive basis. In turn they would like to receive attribution on the off-Wikipedia pages where Turnitin reports are located and have the ability to publicly say that they've collaborated with Wikipedia. Turnitin is willing to adapt their software specifically for Wikipedia, to test its efficacy in a pilot program, and to provide access to their servers on an ongoing basis. The community must discuss this idea and ultimately decide whether or not to pursue it. Please see the Request for Comment to decide if we can run a trial of Turnitin's software.

Note: The above nutshell summary described the status in 2012. The planned RfC did not happen.

Turnitin is an Internet-based plagiarism-detection service run by iParadigms. Universities, schools, and professional researchers and writers submit documents to Turnitin's websites, which check the writing for originality against a comprehensive internet crawler, a database of proprietary content, and prior submissions. Managing copyrighted content is a major focus and problem for Wikipedia. This page is designed to lay out the concept of a potential collaboration with Turnitin as a way to combine our strengths and improve or resolve a major issue for Wikipedia's content oversight.

Comments are welcome on the talk page.