Support plagiarism detection
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Description
We may want to provide to contest administrators the ability to determine whether some submissions are too similar to some public code or to each other. This is probably most pertinent to online contests or classroom use rather than onsite contests, which makes it a bit outside of the main scope of CMS.
I don't think implementing this ourselves is the best way to go. I believe there already exist such tools, with sophisticated algorithms and large corpora of sources. We should provide a way for CMS to interface with them.
I wouldn't be surprised if this issue had arisen before and I would love to hear from administrators that faced it how they addressed it.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by gathering the administrator use cases described in the issue and reviewing how CMS could interface with existing plagiarism-detection tools; done requires an agreed integration scope and requirements.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100