On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Anivar Aravind wrote:

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Gautam John <gautam@prathambooks.org> wrote:
On 12 September 2011 13:16, Hisham Mundol <hmundol@wikimedia.org> wrote:

(Some) students in the Pune pilot have copy-pasted copyright material onto
their articles. We are taking these copyvios extremely seriously and here's
a summary of the action that we have taken.

You know, Hisham, it's nice that the WMF takes this seriously but we
might be over blowing it a tad too far. The WMFs policies work really
well in a 1st world environment where there is great sensitivity to
copyright and violations. In India, it's a different kettle of fish
and we need to treat it as such.

feeling Same. Treat it like usual copyright violations happening in
wikipedia, and take precautionary steps. Disabling Leaderboad etc
seems to be little overstretched act. I wonder, how we missed
addressing Copyvios at all in the programme plan?

The actions we have taken are part of a set of precautionary steps - and also include a host of additional support for students. One the question of the leaderboard, it's only fair that honest, hard-working students get the recognition they deserve.

We have addressed copyvios repeatedly with students - but, what can i say, sometimes kids will be kids… We are now reiterating the message through multiple channels. It's opportune because a lot of students are now starting to edit and they need reminders. The context is there are 1000 students and the overwhelming majority are new to Wikipedia. This presents a problem of scale for us and a challenge of familiarity for them.