Hi Kubke, What I mean is that as a collaborative wiki project all pages are editable. WikiEducator requires users to create an account (i.e. we don't permit anonymous edits in the wiki because of attribution requirements of our license.)
Admins have the ability to "protect pages" which locks down editing of that particular page for WikiEducator users. The purpose of WikiEducator is to foster collaborationi - so from a policy perspective we don't lock down editing. If a user wants to work on a page on their own -- the convention is to develop these pages as a subpage from their Userpage. The community ethic is not to edit pages in the personal user namespace. If someone makes a change to a page in the open wiki which is not aligned with the specific objectives of the project concerned -- the collaborating authors have the right to "complain" :-) -- this us usually done through discussion on the relevant talk page to achieve consensus. The only pages we legitimately lock down would be approved policies and high risk templates where an inadvertent change by, for instance, a newbie, would have a major impact across the wiki, for example one of the navigation templates. Cheers Wayne On Nov 24, 3:41 pm, Kubke <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Wayne, > Can you clarify: by saying you don't 'protect editing of pages' do you > mean that people are free to change page contents without permission > (and that people cannot complain about their content being changed)? > I wold assume that is the case, but better safe than sorry :) > Cheers > Kubke > > On Nov 24, 2:29 pm, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi Kubke, > > > Depends on the extent of the infringement. If clearly an infringement - > > -majority of the page by one author plagiarising text. Yes mark the page for > > deletion by adding the {{delete}} template. > > > If multiple authors and only one or two infringements - -we typically leave > > a message -- if there is no response then we delete the offending text. > > > I'll set you up with admins so you can delete pages. Only think you should > > know is we don't protect editing of pages (unless in the case of high usage > > templates.) > > > Cheers > > Wayne > > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Kubke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Just came across a page containing substantial material that > > > represents copyright infringements. I couldn't find the procedure to > > > follow. Should the page be marked for deletion, or is there another > > > template that should be added to mark the page for revision? > > > Thanks > > > Fabiana > > > > -- > > > 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] > > > -- > > Wayne Mackintosh <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, Ph.D. > > Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> > > Director, International Centre for Open Education, > > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > > Founder and elected Community Council Member, > > Wikieducator<http://www.wikieducator.org%20> > > Mobile+64 21 2436 380begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +64 21 2436 > > 380 end_of_the_skype_highlighting > > Skype: WGMNZ1 > > Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg> | > > identi.ca<http://identi.ca/waynemackintosh> -- 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]
