Interesting. There has been performed a study done within Czech UNI students, about how they understand plagiarism and than compared with U.S. students. Results were, that Czech students would tend to plagiarise much more than U.S. students.

The roots of this behaviour might be in society, as these students may have learnt such behaviour in their families and/or from the society.

Regards,

Juandev

2013/11/21 LiAnna Davis <ldavis@wikimedia.org>

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:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/20/how-to-make-a-wikipedian-angry/

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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