Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework

2011-09-10 Thread Aditya Sengupta
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 16:27, Gautam John wrote: > On 10 September 2011 16:23, Bala Jeyaraman wrote: > > > last week in a conversation in jimbowales talk page in en wiki, jimmy > said > > he and coren were talking to google to allow this free of charge or > > something and something good is to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework

2011-09-10 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, Another way to look at it is that a few tried to copy paste their work and were caught - which is a good thing and proves, that you can't copy your homework. :) They're new to Wikipedia and I think these are important lessons for them to learn up-front. warm regards, Pradeep Sent from my Nok

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework

2011-09-10 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 16:23, Bala Jeyaraman wrote: > >>A question - how hard is it to write a bot that runs contributions > through Google and flags it based on the degree of match and whether a > footnote exists or not? > > One such bot existed called corensearchbot which used yahoo to flag >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework

2011-09-10 Thread Gautam John
On 10 September 2011 16:23, Bala Jeyaraman wrote: > last week in a conversation in jimbowales talk page in en wiki, jimmy said > he and coren were talking to google to allow this free of charge or > something and something good is to be expected in the near future (i am not > sure, i might be man

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework

2011-09-10 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
>>A question - how hard is it to write a bot that runs contributions through Google and flags it based on the degree of match and whether a footnote exists or not? One such bot existed called corensearchbot which used yahoo to flag copyvios. But yahoo changed its terms of service and it had be to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework

2011-09-10 Thread Gautam John
On 10 September 2011 14:51, Swaroop Rao wrote: > The subject of the mail is a bit ironic actually ;) Anyway, I guess the > copyvios should be ironed out once Online Ambassadors step in. Now that you mention it... I wonder if they were trying to be sardonic. Thank you. Best, Gautam ht

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework

2011-09-10 Thread Swaroop Rao
The subject of the mail is a bit ironic actually ;) Anyway, I guess the copyvios should be ironed out once Online Ambassadors step in. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch ) On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:44, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Good article on the INDIAED

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework

2011-09-10 Thread Gautam John
On 10 September 2011 14:44, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Well, but some reality check, quite a few have been found copying[1], the > drive is on to educate more about copyrights and inform them copying is > wrong. A question - how hard is it to write a bot that runs contributions through Google

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework

2011-09-10 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Good article on the INDIAEDU programs. :) On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:05, Gautam John wrote: > You can't copy-paste this homework > Well, but some reality check, quite a few have been found copying[1], the drive is on to educate more about copyrights and inform them copying is wrong. But this is

[Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework

2011-09-10 Thread Gautam John
You can't copy-paste this homework Padmaparna Ghosh | September 10, 2011 http://www.timescrest.com/life/you-cant-copypaste-this-homework-6226 http://www.timescrest.com/timthumb.php?src=http://www.timescrest.com/media/content/2011/Sep/img_6226_19431_Pc0080400.jpg&w=500&zc=1 The students of the