I've noticed this kind of problem with students in other class projects. The
students tend to view the professor as the only relevant authority figure,
and disregard messages from other people (or worse, can't understand those
messages). People who aren't familiar with wiki tend to view online
communications in terms of email: most of the email messages you receive are
spam and just need to be ignored or deleted.
First thing that needs to be done is to figure out who the teacher or
professor is. All professors should be directed to [[Wikibooks:Guidelines
for class projects]], and they should also likely sign in at
[[Wikibooks:List of class projects]]. This way we can keep track of the
projects in a centralized way, and we can list who exactly is the professor
so future communications towards that book can be addressed appropriately.
We can help teach these groups the correct way to do things, but if they
continue to upload copyvio images, they need to be blocked like any other
user. Blocking a student, especially when there is a grade on the line, will
certainly get people to pay more attention to our warnings. Such action may
also prompt a professor to step forward and ask "what do we need to do to
fix this?"
I have some experiance with other group projects like this. I'll try my
damndest to get in touch with them ASAP and correct the problems.
--Andrew Whitworth (Whiteknight)
From: Iamunknown <iamunknown(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: Wikimedia textbook discussion <textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Textbook-l] Class projects
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:39:22 -0600
We have three ongoing class projects which most of you probably
already know about: Social and Cultural Foundations of American
Education, The Computer Revolution, and Ethnomedicine. I have posted
notes on the individual contributor's pages repeatedly particularly
about image use, but I get nothing even such as a reply. How can we
get in contact with these contributors? Or, how can we get in contact
with their group leader, professor, or whomever is in charge? They
need to know about copyrights relating to images. I ended up removing
all the untagged images I found in Ethnomedicine, left (hopefully)
kind notes on the uploaders pages referring them to Commons (where I
found related free images in all but one case), and have gotten no
reply. I'm flustered right now and cannot really think straight. Any
ideas about where to go from here?
-Iamunknown
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