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. 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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