LOL -- Yeah, better to assume good faith in the absence of evidence to the
contrary hey :-)

W

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Fabiana Kubke <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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. 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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