Hi,

Wayne, Thanks for the clarification. Yes, that is how I understood the
'rules' to be. Good to get confirmation though.

Sean, The page in question is this
http://ch.wikieducator.org/My_Own_book/Theories_of_Learning. I came across
it because my student whose contributions I follow recently edited it. I
just marked it for deletion. I would rather not use my 'superpowers' until I
I am sure I know the difference between good and evil  :)

Cheers
Kubke

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> >
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