Hi Fabiana, In this instance its hard to tell whether this was intentional infringement due to ignorance of copyright in a digital world.
So I've opted not to delete the page from the database -- just removed the text with an explanatory note. Hopefully a learning experience for the user. Cheers Wayne On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Fabiana Kubke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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