[LM_NET] TAR: Wikipedia article authors

[Donna Bedry <BedryD@FSD38.AB.CA>]

It was only a matter of time!!  One of our students handed in an essay
that matched, word for word, a posting on Wikipedia.  When confronted
with his apparent plagiarism, he insisted that the Wikipedia posting
was, in fact, his work.    I know articles are posted / edited
anonymously, but is there some way of checking to see who made the
posting?   Something in our border manager is preventing us from
accessing Wikipedia here at the school (yahoo!!!), so I'm unable to
check authority, but I could check from home later.
We will deal with the whole issue of citing your own work appropriately
or elucidating on the work handed in to an extent that convinces us (or
not) that the work is original, but just require info from you Wikipedia
experts about checking a posting's author.
 
Thanks for any information you can pass on.
Donna
 
Donna Bedry
Librarian, MLIS
Highwood High School
High River, AB T1V 1S1
403-652-55500 x309
bedryd@fsd38.ab.ca 


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