Hi Folks
(Some) students in the Pune pilot have copy-pasted copyright material onto
their articles. We are taking these copyvios extremely seriously and here's a
summary of the action that we have taken.
a) Conducted classroom sessions in all 3 colleges where the program is running
and
There are another way (who works fine in Brazilian program): Treat then as
adults they are and the articles as projects. If I cheat in a project in any
college in Brazil my professor would give me a zero. In some brazilians
college I may be expelled for do that (without count the fact that is also
hisham
On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Béria Lima wrote:
There are another way (who works fine in Brazilian program): Treat then as
adults they are and the articles as projects. If I cheat in a project in any
college in Brazil my professor would give me a zero. In some brazilians
college I
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 15:48, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
I said that the current actions were overblown.
No second thoughts on the issue and actions being taken. But I guess Gautam
has a point here. This set of copyvios were detected very early(majorly ~50
students' edits
hisham
On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Gautam John wrote:
On 12 September 2011 13:16, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote:
(Some) students in the Pune pilot have copy-pasted copyright material onto
their articles. We are taking these copyvios extremely seriously and here's
a summary
hisham
On Sep 12, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote:
Hisham,
Nice to hear the comprehensive way in which the copy violation issue is being
addressed. Its better to nip this in the bud otherwise it could grow beyond
control and also sully the good work being done by hundreds of
On 12 September 2011 16:00, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote:
and how to write good quality articles - all in the context and spirit of
better learning, more fun, intellectual honesty and the need to avoid
academic plagiarism - so I'm with you on that.
You know, at the session we
Hisham
Thank you for taking this seriously and for the prompt action . This had the
potential to become a serious PR disaster for India in general and
thankfully the actions taken seem to have stemmed the copyvio issues for
now.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com
On 12 September 2011 16:47, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
Copyright violations aren't only important from an academic plagiarism point
of view but also legal and ethical, you seem to be only focusing on text
based violation in Academia maybe. Commons users and admins spend the better
Hi Hisham,
Can you please inform the people who are regularly editing Indian Articles
about the Online Ambassador program before closing the dates for the same ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/New_articles (only
new article alert system I know)
Thanks,
Naveen Francis
I agree with Gautam in that just copyvio is not the issue. It is the issue
of copyright violation, plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty. It needs
to be tackled by teaching the skills of citation, paraphrasing and the many
acceptable and unacceptable ways to reflect copied text and ideas in
On Sep 12, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
I am not sure if Intellectual honesty means ethics in this context but I
would disagree if that is what WMF and other Wikipedians would be concerned
about, it's really the legal liability that they expose WMF and projects to.
Maybe Hisham
On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
I beg to differ Gautum. Since, it was made part of the curriculum this almost
constitutes as cheating. I am not sure about lofty first world standards but
I would be failed for cheating just about anywhere in the world.
It's taking a while for
On Sep 12, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Naveen Francis wrote:
Hi Hisham,
Can you please inform the people who are regularly editing Indian Articles
about the Online Ambassador program before closing the dates for the same ?
Sure, Navin. The application form is at
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