Perhaps a quick note about Special:Cite? ...said... ==> ...stated..?
-----Original Message----- Michael Peel wrote: > Having said that, I've just looked at the original document: > > http://www.ofqual.gov.uk/files/2009-12-24-plagiarism-students.pdf > > It actually does a pretty good job at giving advice on how to use > Wikipedia. It's just the Telegraph that chose the choice quote and > ignored the advice. ;-) > > It even mentions the School's Wikipedia. > OK, I'm trying now to draft a press release by shoehorning it into the "six sentence" format. This seems to work well enough as a way of seeing what the "story" is. Draft: School students spend an increasing proportion of their free time online, and will not be deterred from spending study time on the Web also. Now Ofqual, the UK's official examination regulation body, has endorsed a guide "Using Sources" that is designed to help students using the Web avoid the hazards, such as plagiarism and unreliable information, by making proper use of sites such as Wikipedia, which produces schools-wikipedia.org and DVD selections especially for this educational sector. Wikimedia UK, the national organization representing the Wikipedia reference site and other online resources, has responded by producing a concise online document aimed at secondary school teachers. Mike Peel, chair of WMUK, said "For all the adverse media comment and robust debate, it is really important that students using Wikipedia understand the correct way to work with this resource, and teachers can help them to a more informed and critical way of using a site that they will all know about and read anyway." The new guide is based on understanding how to look over a Wikipedia page, examine warning notices and references, and follow up clues in the history and discussion of a particular article. It is free content, released under the GFDL license used for Wikipedia. /draft This isn't perfect, clearly. But is this on-message? Would this be what WMUK wanted to say at this time? (NB that Ofqual did not write the guide itself, but endorses what plagiarismadvice.org wrote.) Charles _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
