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Copyvios caught after courses end
Is there much point in advising instructors that students have submitted copyvio articles after a course has ended? In this case it only ended on Dec 18, so it's not that old, but still. (Please ping, I'm not watchlisting). ♠PMC♠ (talk) 22:50, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Premeditated Chaos: Maybe? It depends on the professor. Can you let me know which article(s)? --LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:26, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
- It was History of authoritarianism, which has now been stripped and revdel'd, and the remains userfied to User:Reeemmmaaaaa/History of Authoritarianism. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 20:46, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, we alerted the professor. --LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:23, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
- LiAnna (Wiki Ed): We just found an old copyvio at Montserrat oriole too—reportedly (per edit comments) related to a Loyola University course requirement back in 2019. It might be helpful to all concerned if professors were encouraged to connect with Wikiprojects related to the articles their students will be updating. We could help keep an eye open for potential issues, answer questions, provide mentoring or guidance, etc. We longtime editors often have to go around cleaning up after these brief class assignments; it would be great to know which articles might have problems rather than having to stumble across them among the 21,000 articles in our remit! ;) MeegsC (talk) 14:26, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- Hi MeegsC, thanks for the suggestion. With student editors in our program editing more than 6,000 articles each term, it's not super feasible for us to notify every WikiProject which specific articles will be edited; instead, our Dashboard software puts a banner on the talk page of each article students are planning to edit. For an example of it on another species article, see Talk:Agelenopsis pennsylvanica. In terms of the Montserrat oriole article, you don't see that banner because that class never registered with us; we've only supported one class at Loyola Chicago, and it was a sociology course the term after those edits. Unfortunately it's common to find student editors whose faculty don't use our support; this means student editors don't go through our plagiarism trainings and edits aren't automatically run through our plagiarism checker, which notifies our staff to do a revdel. If you do find unregistered student editors, encourage them to have their professor visit teach.wikiedu.org to register their course! --LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:52, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- LiAnna (Wiki Ed), I certainly wouldn't expect you or your department to do the notifying. But each professor should certainly be capable of doing so; they're only typically dealing with articles relating to a couple of projects. You have a great resource out here that you're not using. And that's a shame! MeegsC (talk) 19:43, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- Hi MeegsC, thanks for the suggestion. With student editors in our program editing more than 6,000 articles each term, it's not super feasible for us to notify every WikiProject which specific articles will be edited; instead, our Dashboard software puts a banner on the talk page of each article students are planning to edit. For an example of it on another species article, see Talk:Agelenopsis pennsylvanica. In terms of the Montserrat oriole article, you don't see that banner because that class never registered with us; we've only supported one class at Loyola Chicago, and it was a sociology course the term after those edits. Unfortunately it's common to find student editors whose faculty don't use our support; this means student editors don't go through our plagiarism trainings and edits aren't automatically run through our plagiarism checker, which notifies our staff to do a revdel. If you do find unregistered student editors, encourage them to have their professor visit teach.wikiedu.org to register their course! --LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:52, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- LiAnna (Wiki Ed): We just found an old copyvio at Montserrat oriole too—reportedly (per edit comments) related to a Loyola University course requirement back in 2019. It might be helpful to all concerned if professors were encouraged to connect with Wikiprojects related to the articles their students will be updating. We could help keep an eye open for potential issues, answer questions, provide mentoring or guidance, etc. We longtime editors often have to go around cleaning up after these brief class assignments; it would be great to know which articles might have problems rather than having to stumble across them among the 21,000 articles in our remit! ;) MeegsC (talk) 14:26, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks, we alerted the professor. --LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:23, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
- It was History of authoritarianism, which has now been stripped and revdel'd, and the remains userfied to User:Reeemmmaaaaa/History of Authoritarianism. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 20:46, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
Mick Fuller – Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force
I actually started this page, and when I wandered by found a massive edit on 3 November 2020 by B2b7905 (talk · contribs), claiming to be doing it as part of a university assignment. Unfortunately they didn't do that great a job. They deleted the lede for example, though I've pasted it back in. They also left all this cruft behind.
• I've added a generic educational assignment template to the talk page and cleaned up the article. If anyone has any more information please let me know. Regards 220 of ßorg 18:39, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
- @220 of Borg: This isn't a course we support (we're just in the U.S. and Canada) but the student's userpage says their tutor is Psmwm and to reach out to them with any concerns, so perhaps leave a talk page note for them? --LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:00, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
- I didn't notice that info. :-( I'll do that. Regards, 220 of ßorg 19:04, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
- @LiAnna (Wiki Ed): To say that this particular course is not one "we support" points to a distinction which may not be obvious; the difference between courses which are relevant in this noticeboard and courses which are not. Could this noticeboard's description ("Purpose of this page") be modified to clarify this distinction, possibly directing users with such questions/comments elsewhere? (Does Wikimedia Education even maintain such a forum?) azwaldo (talk) 19:49, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Azwaldo: My apologies for the confusion! This noticeboard is supposed to be for all educational projects, not just those supported by Wiki Education (my organization). But I've found generally that most educational program leaders aren't actually paying attention to it, so I try to chime in on most threads in an effort to help resolve issues. In my comment, I was trying to make distinction more between trying to be helpful in connecting people to someone who can help address the problem vs being able to address the problem myself. I'll try to be more clear in the future about what I mean. --LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:03, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
- @LiAnna (Wiki Ed): To say that this particular course is not one "we support" points to a distinction which may not be obvious; the difference between courses which are relevant in this noticeboard and courses which are not. Could this noticeboard's description ("Purpose of this page") be modified to clarify this distinction, possibly directing users with such questions/comments elsewhere? (Does Wikimedia Education even maintain such a forum?) azwaldo (talk) 19:49, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
- I didn't notice that info. :-( I'll do that. Regards, 220 of ßorg 19:04, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
Autism (again)
@Ian (Wiki Ed): we have two students at Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Ottawa/CMN2160 (Winter) listing autism, which is a featured article. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:21, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
- SandyGeorgia - that class isn't supposed to be editing in mainspace, so it should be ok, but I'm going to email the instructor about this anyway. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:37, 11 March 2021 (UTC)