<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436554797047_966186" dir="ltr">I found at least one instance and I think maybe two as we've been converting</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436554797047_966261" dir="ltr">the HA Guide to RST. We're doing minor edits as we convert and these involved</div><div dir="ltr">hideous sentences that a reviewer called out as needing to be rewritten. I happened</div><div dir="ltr">to be checking Wikipaedia for something else and there was exactly the same hideously</div><div dir="ltr">bad sentence ;-)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436554797047_966748" dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I would like to think that Stackers had the common decency to only plageurize good stuff ;-)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I defer to others to determine the right way to handle this, but I suspect we may have a fair</div><div dir="ltr">amount of plageurized material in the guides. Or, who knows? Maybe someone plageurized</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436554797047_966750" dir="ltr">the OpenStack docs when writing the Wikipedia articles...</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">meg<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436554797047_966113"><span></span></div><br> <blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436554797047_966118" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436554797047_966117" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436554797047_966116" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436554797047_966115" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436554797047_966184" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Lana Brindley <openstack@lanabrindley.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> openstack-docs@lists.openstack.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, July 12, 2015 6:27 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OpenStack-docs] Copying from wikipedia ;(<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436554797047_966752" class="y_msg_container"><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br clear="none">Hash: SHA1<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 13/07/15 10:54, Anita Kuno wrote:<br clear="none">> On 07/12/2015 08:34 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:<br clear="none">>> On 2015-07-12 14:50:32 +0200 (+0200), Andreas Jaeger wrote:<br clear="none">>> [...]<br clear="none">>>> Jeremy, I'm just wondering whether we should add a line to the infra manual<br clear="none">>>> (<br clear="none">>>> <a shape="rect" href="http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#sign-the-appropriate-individual-contributor-license-agreement" target="_blank">http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#sign-the-appropriate-individual-contributor-license-agreement</a>)<br clear="none">>>> stating what the CLA is about.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> That's probably okay, though summarizing legal documents is tricky<br clear="none">>> business (lawyers generally tell you that if the explanation of a<br clear="none">>> legal document is shorter than the document itself, then either it's<br clear="none">>> an insufficient explanation or the legal document being explained is<br clear="none">>> poorly-written).<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I'm actually finding that the time taken to inform people how to use<br clear="none">> common sense is an increasing contributor anti-pattern, not just to<br clear="none">> documentation.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I'm not offering an opinion about what-is-to-be-done, I'm saying that<br clear="none">> needed to do anything about behaviour which is in direct contravention<br clear="none">> of standard open source behaviour is really draining on our community as<br clear="none">> a whole.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I agree with you Anita, and that's why I'm happy with just calling out<br clear="none">the behaviour, mentioning it directly to the individual, and then<br clear="none">getting on with our lives. This doesn't happen often enough (at least,<br clear="none">that we know of) for us to make any significant changes. I'm happy with<br clear="none">a one line "don't plagiarise!" to cover this base.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">L<br clear="none"><br clear="none">- -- <br clear="none">Lana Brindley<br clear="none">Technical Writer<br clear="none">Rackspace Cloud Builders Australia<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lanabrindley.com/" target="_blank">http://lanabrindley.com</a><br clear="none">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br clear="none">Version: GnuPG v1<br clear="none"><br clear="none">iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVoxQbAAoJELppzVb4+KUynP8IAKhK1O3k3JqqOBU86hLuZmH1<br clear="none">KCg2KO7LNMJ2rZi/8xnSglBjX6kFRHePkP+En7LJ0QDnn5zVHabKO8O7r0nemLsz<br clear="none">SLAtquNQtiR0B9X2KA6rLXeGZvNQ7KN6UANJ64m1+SUprHwbL8fWwxS5A+iy6DYk<br clear="none">T9C/57phPDY8mB3Cri0D3JFE084bG/oyZX8hUo2LUlDuVYgJqbCVa5P1o+tdbQjZ<br clear="none">TV3BzBwoS4H86wgzTWNgbWu0Nv2doO7uby/ruNGwdowWV/ALbkz5gK7hnaIZSMfe<br clear="none">Y9MQByQyEsC9mVdSMa2WRQ0gCs/Z3zhmLlQ50s17OHSkHJkZaHiD1x3f+7/PzQo=<br clear="none">=4cfE<br clear="none">-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yqt0434803653" id="yqtfd06528"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">OpenStack-docs mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:OpenStack-docs@lists.openstack.org" href="mailto:OpenStack-docs@lists.openstack.org">OpenStack-docs@lists.openstack.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-docs" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-docs</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div></body></html>