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Originally posted on the TN Wiki blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/11/06/thursday-council-spotlight-wiki-governance-copyright-privacy-piracy.aspx
Copyright, Privacy & Piracy
At the TechNet Wiki, we're fighting a continuous battle to maintain the Wiki in good shape, to keep the community and platform within legal limits.
Of course, we do have a set of TechNet Wiki Governance guidelines, built on best practices and specific rules in terms of use.
So every Wiki Ninja should be aware of these guidelines and act on it.
Still, we see a lot of issues with piracy, personalized content, articles with a personal blog style and articles with a short-term value (announcements).
The key landing page on this matter is the Wiki: Governance and Guidelines Portal.
But it's important to highlight a top five of key articles:
- [[Wiki: Code of Conduct]]
- Wiki Governance: Types of Articles Not Appropriate for TechNet Wiki
- The TechNet Wiki Balanced Point of View describes the expected behavior and tone of articles for the TechNet Wiki
- Microsoft Community platform: Terms of use
- Wiki Life: The Principle of Invisibility
Plagiarism rules
These documents handle plagiarism:
- Wiki Governance: Types of Articles Not Appropriate for TechNet Wiki
- "Content that does not belong to you
- Someone else has relevant content and you want to help them share it with the world. It's a nice thought, but do not copy other people's content to the Wiki, even if the owner said it was OK.
- If you are writing an article taking reference from an already existing article and adding some important points and views which would really give value to the topic such articles are welcome but you must include reference to original article otherwise it would be seen as plagiarized content. "
- "Content that does not belong to you
- Wiki: Code of Conduct:
- “Respect content creators. Do not copy content from another author (such as a blog post) unless you have permission. If you do have permission, mention it at the top of the article and include a link to the original source and author.”
- Wiki: How to Contribute Content to TechNet Wiki:
- (1)“Do not copy/paste from TechNet/MSDN or other websites, or blogs, or other sources of material that you did not create. When you take content from someone else you are plagiarizing another's work, even when you simplify, rephrase, rewrite the content, then save this under your own name. ”
- (2) “Copy/pasting and then saving under your name is plagiarism. We frown on that here. Violations of copyright will be deleted.”
External References
And just to show you, this is NOT specific for TechNet Wiki, some useful links worth to share.
- What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content
- 10 Big Myths about copyright explained
- Copyright Crash Course.
Just as an extra, the guideline on publishing videos on TN Wiki: Wiki Governance: Guideline on Publishing Videos.
Guidance
- Wiki: Best Practices for Giving Credit
- Wiki: Best practices for source references and quotes
- Wiki: Code of Conduct
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Wiki Governance: Guideline on Publishing Videos.
Guidance
- Wiki: Best Practices for Giving Credit
- Legitimate Credits versus Spam
- Wiki: How to Contribute Content to TechNet Wiki
- Set of Wiki Blog on writing Wiki articles:
Reporting plagiarism
- Add a notification header to the article as described in http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/31631.wiki-piracy-report-template.aspx
- Mark the article with the tag "candidate for deletion"
See Also
- http://aka.ms/NotForTNWiki
- Thursday - Council Spotlight: Wiki Governance, Copyright, Privacy & Piracy
- Plagiarism at TechNet Wiki - First Empirical Data and Analysis
- Wiki: Pirated Content Portal
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