Wikipedia talk:Contributor copyright investigations

Authentication is now required for search engine checks on Earwig's Copyvio Tool

Hello! As of right now, Earwig's Copyvio Tool will now require logging in with your Wikimedia account for search engine checks. This is an attempted solution at trying to curb bot scraping of the site, which rapidly depletes the available quota we have for Google searches. New checks will require you to log in first prior to running. You will also still keep getting "429: Too Many Requests" errors until the quota resets, around midnight Pacific Time, as we've run out of search engine checks for the day. If this broke something for you or if you're having issues in trying to authenticate, please let The Earwig or me know. Thanks! Chlod (say hi!) 00:06, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Integrating Wikipedia Library search into Earwig's Copyvio Detector

Hi - we recently spoke with EBSCO, who host the search tool that The Wikipedia Library uses to browse content available through the library, and they granted us API credentials + permission to integrate EBSCO Discovery Service with Earwig's Copyvio Detector. This would enable copyvio searches of more paywalled PDFs (it's not currently clear how much additional coverage this gives beyond what Turnitin provides, but we'll be able to investigate further once this is integrated). We've put some basic mockups of what this might look like at T378077 - thoughts and questions welcome! Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 14:55, 28 October 2024 (UTC)