Definitely we can not have materials of other authors on WE without their permission. It's serious.
And yes, as Alison has rightly said, we can always revise the material and mention the resource, but now with author's consent. Being an entomologist, I am always there to help. Sarita Kumar On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Alison Snieckus <[email protected]>wrote: > Definitely something we should address. > > My inclination would be to have us make a good faith effort to revise the > material so that it is not a direct copy of the original and in the process > make it more of a learning resource (e.g., including activities and > reflections) targeted to a particular audience. For example, see the WE > resource Deforestation <http://en.wikieducator.org/Deforestation>. The > original would be listed as a resource. > > I wonder if the original author, PDas, would be willing to work on this. > I'm happy to help. > > Alison > http://en.wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Randy Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> This individual has joined our group, and posted the following message: >> >> >> I have noticed that the page http://nz.wikieducator.org/ENTOMOLOGY is a >> copy of the text from my personal website >> http://www.bijlmakers.com/entomology/begin.htm Some pictures have been >> changed, but generally it is my page and not yours. You have copied it >> without my permission and that's why I think you should remove it. Best >> regards, Hein Bijlmakers >> >> I did a search on the history of the page - and >> http://nz.wikieducator.org/User:PDas (a student in India) is responsible >> for this. >> >> WE certainly don't want to have material without other folks' permission >> on WE. At the same time, people do make honest mistakes. >> >> Thoughts, Ideas here? >> >> - Randy >> -- >> >> ________________ >> Randy Fisher, MA, OMD >> Senior Consultant, Organization Development, E-Learning, Collaboration & >> Performance >> Intersol Group, Canada >> >> Senior Consultant, Organization & Capacity Development >> International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand >> >> Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org >> +1 613.722.5577 (EST) >> Skype: wikirandy >> Blog: http://collaborativeengagement.wordpress.com >> >> * Stakeholder Engagement & Project Implementation >> * Change & Transition Management >> * E-Learning, Online Collaboration & Learning Communities >> * Coaching & Facilitation >> * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "WikiEducator" group. >> To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org >> To visit the discussion forum: >> http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] -- http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Saritasanjay http://www.wikieducator.org/India http://www.wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://www.andcollege.du.ac.in -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
