The issue of plagiarism is recurrent in Wikipedia, and in the educational realm as well; unfortunately, even at university level.
In our experience for instance, we detected a case of plagiarism by a participant of the workshops we provide locally in the project "Wikipedia in Education". He created an article by copying and pasting literally from another source. The issue took some relevance among the internal core of members of the project, as it is directed to teachers and students at the Consejo de Formación en Educación (Council of Learning in Education), an institution tasked with educating teachers of primary and intermediate education here in Uruguay. Certainly, the article was removed immediately and the person responsible for plagiarizing it was removed from the project. One of the points, in fact, that are recurrently put emphasis on during workshops is the issue of copy-paste, particularly without citing sources, and always as long as the quote is justified as such by its extension and relevance.
Wikipedia is useful precisely as a tool to make plagiarism public. That is, from my perspective, one of the relevant benefits of incoorporating Wikipedia to educational projects, since it allows for an externalization of classroom work. The articles are open to a community from which students can receive all kinds of opinions, criticism, and questioning. Certainly it is the teacher’s role to know how to channel in the best manner possible these interactions and peer-reviews, according to the social context and age of said students.
Fernando
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From: Vojtěch Dostál <vojtech.dostal@centrum.cz>
To: Wikimedia Education <education@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, Nov 21, 2013 8:26 am
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Results of plagiarism study
I never came up with a magical solution of plagiarism and I would like to hear it, if there is one. The percentages suggested by Sage Ross's study are realistic; these are numbers we cope with on Czech Wikipedia too. It seems to me that some students can hear the "Don't plagiarise" warning three times and still do it; among others, this is also a matter of generally educating people what authorship and plagiarism means. All sorts of 'strange' questions are asked by students during the Wikipedia sessions such as "I know we can't copy from a book, but what about from the Internet", "Can I copy from the Internet if there is no author?" etc... you have to answer all of these carefully.My friend Petr Broz (user:Chmee2) used to have one way of making students remember that they should not plagiarize: He explained them everything and than he showed them how easy it is to discover a plagiarism by showing a google search by test and a google search by searching for similar images. This seemed to leave a long-lasting effect on students :-).cheersVojtech************************Vojtěch Dostál______________________________________________________________
> Od: LiAnna Davis <ldavis@wikimedia.org>
> Komu: Wikimedia Education <education@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Datum: 21.11.2013 00:04
> Předmět: [Wikimedia Education] Results of plagiarism study
>Hi all! I know plagiarism is something a lot of us face around the world, so I thought you all might be interested in a blog post Sage Ross put together about a plagiarism study we did on the English Wikipedia, comparing student contributions to other editor cohorts:I'm curious to see if this seems to hold true with your programs as well -- and does anyone have a great solution they've implemented that's cut down on student plagiarism?LiAnna
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