Thanks Wayne, On my learning list for good vs evil then :) Cheers Kubke On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Wayne Mackintosh < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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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