User:Slowking4/Wikipedia & copyright
wikipedia approach to copyright & plargarism
- Let's get serious about plagiarism [1]
- Talking copyright with WikiProject Copyright Cleanup [2]
- The copyright crisis, and why we should care [3]
- plargarism exists between 2½-10% on english wikipedia edits; 3½% admins Research:Plagiarism on the English Wikipedia
copyright and plagiarism is a serious issue
- copyright ethics vary around the world:
- A post-mortem on the Indian Education Program pilot [4]
- copyright has changed over time - i.e. scholasticism; romanticism see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism
- post-modern artists and remixing http://ubu.com/resources/index.html
- copyright not respected on the internet; we're trying to model a bettter way
WikiProject Copyright Cleanup takes a doctrinaire approach to copyright
they patrol new edits, and flag; they do not cleanup old heritage material
- patrolers can blank, speedy delete, or revdev copyright violations [5]
- patrolers have a suite of tools to send canned warnings
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Orr_Campbell
wikipedia engages in adversarial proscription, not collaboration
- when they give you a tl;dr wall of text, then you know they are interested in dictation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_problems
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributor_copyright_investigations
conclusion:
- wikipedia is not serious about copyright: it has control issues; it is serious about "adversive leadership"
- this is a culture problem we must overcome [6]
- our praxis should be to :
- do not respond
- ask question at teahouse, or of editathon veteran
- edit around the obstructing admin
- cut & paste with extreme care - references; tables, lists; strip adjectives, adverbs
- let your veteran ally take the block for you