[Wikimediaindia-l] Copyright Violations by (some) Students: Wikipedia India Education Program

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 15:48, Gautam John <gautam at prathambooks.org> wrote:

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> I said that the current actions were overblown.


No second thoughts on the issue and actions being taken. But I guess Gautam
has a point here. This set of copyvios were detected very early(majorly ~50
students' edits were monitored and reported), others are not yet on editing
mode still. 50 / 1000 is not some, but I would say few. But its key we take
this seriously before it explodes to a scale we cant handle since Indian
editors / newbies are already infamous for copyvios and we dont want to add
more such folks.

Apart from copyvios which can be detected since they are from online
sources, quite a few students write bookishly (which makes me wonder if they
are copying from local texts). I kind of feel(personal opinion) that
*deadlines* , *marks* are making quite a few of them to treat this as yet
another homework and in turn have the "done and dusted" attitude. Of course
there have been some good contributions, but it has been rare for the
population.

-- 
Regards
Srikanth.L
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