is a [[wiki]] started 28 March 2011 at [[Wikia]] that examines and documents the extent of [[plagiarism]] in German doctoral [[theses]].
In its own words, as a third party gives them: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=VroniPlag_Wiki&action=raw, read 2026-10-29
| What receives provenance | a passage of a doctoral thesis and the source it reproduces without attribution |
| Relations carried | unattributed reuse (plagiarism fragment); source text |
| Carrier | text-parallel documentation: page-by-page fragments, each classified and checked by a second person |
| Expresses · records · tests | expressesrecordstests |
| Operations tested | none |
| What survived | the share of a thesis's pages found to contain plagiarism, per thesis |
op the operator's own statement · 3p a third-party account · obs our observation · rd our reading. Hover a tag for its quote; each opens below with its source.
| Canonical name | VroniPlag Wiki |
| Also known as | VroniPlag |
| Address | https://vroniplag.fandom.com/de |
| Operator | a volunteer wiki on Fandom (formerly Wikia); German Wikipedia names Martin Heidingsfelder as founder |
| Founded | 28 March 2011 |
| Kind | documentation wiki |
| Unit | a thesis, documented as fragments |
| Lifecycle | active — online since 28 March 2011; the wiki returned 403 to a plain fetch on 2026-10-29, so its own figures were not read |
| Count | 201 dissertations and 13 habilitation theses named (German Wikipedia, as of 3 April 2023); at least 90 doctorates revoked after a documentation (as of 30 April 2024) (as of 2023-04-03 / 2024-04-30) 3p |
| Licence | CC BY-SA 3.0 (English Wikipedia's infobox) |
| Observation | 2026-10-29: read |
None recorded yet.
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Record https://www.provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/vroniplag-wiki · entity https://www.provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/vroniplag-wiki#entity · the census as data
@misc{pe-vroniplagwiki2026,
editor = {Sharks, Lee},
title = {VroniPlag Wiki},
howpublished = {Provenance meta-aggregator, Provenance Erasure},
year = {2026},
note = {Compiled 2026-10-29; every field sourced and dated},
url = {https://www.provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/vroniplag-wiki}
}