In a message dated 11/25/2010 9:14:20 AM Pacific Standard Time, wing.philopp@gmx.de writes:
I think it is very important for us to understand the difficulties academics face if they want to join the Wikimedian community. And maybe we should rethink about our strategy and approach on working with academics.
A similar thing occurred with someone within the community, tagged an article I had written with a "copyvio" which effectively blanked the entire page, replacing it with a large warning block. (How outrageous I might add that we would have such a thing.)
Someone ELSE had copied *my* article to an external link. I had added that external link just to show how the subject of my article was related to other people, his parents, children, spouses, etc in a genealogical content. But my article had additional details.
There was no attempt made to show that the EL had copied me, just the presumption that I had copied the EL. Similar to your case Ting. But of course, during the time that the tag was up, none of our five billion readers could see the article at all.
Incidents like that "don't remove this tag until an *administrator* has reviewed it..." leave mental scars on editors.
W
It happens more and more often that books copy from Wikipedia. I found verbatim parts of an article I had written in a book published by John Wiley & Sons the other day. No attribution whatsoever.
It's a headache for the copyright team on en:WP because they have to figure out which came first.
A.
--- On Thu, 25/11/10, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
From: WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Re: [VereinDE-l] Bericht zur Verleihung der Zedler-Me... To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thursday, 25 November, 2010, 17:56 In a message dated 11/25/2010 9:14:20 AM Pacific Standard Time, wing.philopp@gmx.de writes:
I think it is very important for us to understand the
difficulties
academics face if they want to join the Wikimedian
community. And maybe
we should rethink about our strategy and approach on
working with
academics.
A similar thing occurred with someone within the community, tagged an article I had written with a "copyvio" which effectively blanked the entire page, replacing it with a large warning block. (How outrageous I might add that we would have such a thing.)
Someone ELSE had copied *my* article to an external link. I had added that external link just to show how the subject of my article was related to other people, his parents, children, spouses, etc in a genealogical content. But my article had additional details.
There was no attempt made to show that the EL had copied me, just the presumption that I had copied the EL. Similar to your case Ting. But of course, during the time that the tag was up, none of our five billion readers could see the article at all.
Incidents like that "don't remove this tag until an *administrator* has reviewed it..." leave mental scars on editors.
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