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<br><div><div>On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Gautam John wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 12 September 2011 13:16, Hisham Mundol <<a href="mailto:hmundol@wikimedia.org">hmundol@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">(Some) students in the Pune pilot have copy-pasted copyright material onto<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">their articles. We are taking these copyvios extremely seriously and here's<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a summary of the action that we have taken.<br></blockquote><br>You know, Hisham, it's nice that the WMF takes this seriously but we<br>might be over blowing it a tad too far. The WMFs policies work really<br>well in a 1st world environment where there is great sensitivity to<br>copyright and violations. In India, it's a different kettle of fish<br>and we need to treat it as such.<br><br>Yes, it is important to explain why copyvivos are important (and from<br>an academic, plagiarism point of view too) but the bigger issue if<br>intellectual honesty.<br><br>I think they'll do just fine!<br><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>I'm sure they'll do fine! I continue to remain optimistic and refuse to get cynical about it. …and I'll continue to celebrate some awesome awesome work. </div><div><br></div><div>Maybe the tone of my message conveyed the wrong impression. The primary goal is to explain what a copyvio is, convey why copyvios are not to be done and how to write good quality articles - all in the context and spirit of better learning, more fun, intellectual honesty and the need to avoid academic plagiarism - so I'm with you on that. </div><br></body></html>