On 12 September 2011 13:16, Hisham Mundol hmundol@wikimedia.org wrote:
(Some) students in the Pune pilot have copy-pasted copyright material onto their articles. We are taking these copyvios extremely seriously and here's a summary of the action that we have taken.
You know, Hisham, it's nice that the WMF takes this seriously but we might be over blowing it a tad too far. The WMFs policies work really well in a 1st world environment where there is great sensitivity to copyright and violations. In India, it's a different kettle of fish and we need to treat it as such.
Yes, it is important to explain why copyvivos are important (and from an academic, plagiarism point of view too) but the bigger issue if intellectual honesty.
I think they'll do just fine!
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam ________ http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html