Wikipedia:WikiProject Cyberlaw 2006 Harvard

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to help a class of Cyberlaw students become familiar with the project. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and link to their work; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

WikiProject on Cyberlaw

Scope and aims

Have teams of students create accounts and start editing! Open primarily to members of the Winter 2006 Cyberlaw course; as a central place to organize their edits.

Teams and Participants

Please pick a name for your team, create an account for it, and link to its userpage below Secondary links here to the group user pages on the Cyberlaw Wiki at Harvard Law School, and what they have worked on so far at Wikipedia.

• GroupX
  • Group X at Harvard
  • Group X contributions to Wikipedia
  • Group X's Wikipedia contributions summarized on the Harvard Wiki assignments page
• HLS Group 3
  • HLS Group 3 at Harvard
  • HLS Group 3 contributions to Wikipedia
• TeamLessisMore
  • Team Less is More at Harvard
  • Team Less is More contributions to Wikipedia
• CyberGroup
  • Cyber Group at Harvard
  • Cyber Group contributions to Wikipedia
• CLGroup1
  • CL Group 1 at Harvard
  • CL Group contributions to Wikipedia
  • CL Group 1's Wikipedia contributions summarized on the Harvard Wiki assignments page
• Team Rockstar
  • Group Rockstar at Harvard
  • Team Rockstar contributions to Wikipedia
• Frontleft
  • Group Front Left at Harvard
  • Front left contributions to Wikipedia

Participants

• +sj +
• Tmgremi?
• LawTree?
• User:AlMac|^(talk) would like to help the project and the students, but is still a Wiki newbie and not have much academic credentials
  • Al Mac e-wandered over to Harvard Cyberlaw Wiki and added some stuff there such as
    • Comments on Day 2 class assignment
    • Copywrong, the wild e-west world of trying to avoid copyright allegations
    • e-policing = some technical realities, and real world threats
• Lighthead ^þ Interested in how the world wide web is policed, especially in terms of sex.
• ... and you!

Goals and Tasks

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Melbourne#Open tasks and Wikipedia:WikiProject Melbourne#Adopt an article for one example of how this section can be used.

• This project does not aim to write about cyberlaw, but to help cyberlaw students learn about the culture of editing and collaboration on Wikipedia. Subgoals:
  • Identify an article, category, template, wikiproject, or policy discussion to contribute to.
  • Link to what you are working on from this page.
  • Identify yourself by signing in under a shared wiki account for your team. Each editor may also want to have a personal wiki account to separate other edits you make from edits your team makes aligned with these goals.
  • Write about your experiences, on the wiki (either on a subpage of this project page, or on your team's user page (linked to from the upper-right-hand corner of your browser windo when you are logged in).

Content: Adopting articles and more

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too. You can do the same for a category; or you can pick a meta-page (the peer review process : peer review and featured article review; the deletion process: articles for deletion and Deletion review; the image review process: ...)

Articles

• Example article: User:Example
• Cyberlaw -- A favorite of JP's. Still needs work.

Categories

• Example category: Category:Nature

Policy and meta-pages

• Requested moves:
• Requests for Comments:

Other content

• Article improvement drive
• Collaboration of the week
• Peer review
• Featured articles
• Featured article candidates
• Featured pictures
• Featured picture candidates
• Featured lists
• Featured list candidates

Negative content : Deletion

• Articles for deletion (Article deletion):
• Deletion review (Article undeletion}:
• Templates for deletion:
• Categories for deletion:
• Images for deletion:
• Redirects for deletion:

the Seigenthaler problem

The January 4 assignment for the Harvard Law School students was to evaluate some Wikipedia problems, and propose solutions. Perhaps it would be productive for the Wikipedia community to interact with the students to help improve their understanding of the challenges, and help Wikipedian continuous self-improvement efforts.

Relevant Harvard Cyberlaw Links

• Cyberlaw Class Assignments
• CL Group 1's thoughts on Wikipedia Secondary Liability
• Cyber Group's thoughts on Wikipedia Content Policy Management
• Frontleft's policy recommendations for Wikipedia
• Group X's evaluation of the Seigenthaler implications
• HLS Group 3 speculates how the law might rule if Siegenthaler sued Wikipedia
• Rockstar's concerns on where the law may be evolving, and what Wikipedia needs to do differently to stay out of trouble
• Team Less is More thoughts on the challenges of what needs to be done, and how to accomplish that

Similar WikiProjects

see other academic and class-based WikiProjects (Uni of HK, Hawaii, &c)

• Portals: Portal:Law

Structure

Please link to articles you create on Wikipedia here; try creating new articles, adding whole sections to existing articles, making POV and other cleanup corrections to articles that need work, or contributing quietly to large, actively-edited, perhaps featured articles. +sj +

Stop Snitchin' - Mindy

User:CLGroup1 contributions so far

• Electronic Recycling
• Harvard Law School
  • Note that more than one of the groups contributed here, and other editors have worked on this article since User:CLGroup1's input.
• Insulin
• Jacques Pépin
• Jonathan Zittrain
  • Note that more than one of the groups contributed here.
• Kevin Federline
  • Note that a lot of other editors have worked on this article since User:CLGroup1's input.
• Recycling
• Socratic method
  • Note this is one of a group of articles on alternative education that there is a Wiki project to improve overall.
• Sluggy Freelance
• Wienermobile

Comments were made on some of the associated talk pages.

User:CyberGroup contributions so far

• BALANCE Act
• Cleveland, Ohio
• Daubert Standard
• Effect of taxes and subsidies on price
• Fair Lawn High School
• Joe Horn
• Lucia di Lammermoor
• Patrick T. McHenry
• Siege of Beirut
  • Check out this correction ... Wiki style is to use the 4 tildes to sign what we write on the talk pages, but not on the article or project pages.
• Comments on Talk:Tax
• U.S. Senate elections, 2006
  • Note that there's been a lot of other editors working on this article since User:CyberGroup's input.
  • There's a warning on the page about how information about candidates may change as the election approaches.
• Vladimir Vysotsky
• Wilbraham, Massachusetts

Comments were added on some of the associated talk pages. It could be that some students have learned about this, and others not yet got in the habit, or that some corrections are too trivial to warrant explanation.

User:Frontleft contributions so far

• 1. FC Köln
• Action movie
• Bicycle racing
• Cyclo-cross
• Family Guy
  • This article has had lots of editors active here since User:Frontleft's input.
• Georgette Heyer
• Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Harvard Law School
  • Note that more than one of the groups contributed here, and other editors have worked on this article since User:Frontleft's input.
• Hiroshi Ishii
• Images added to Wikipedia by User:Frontleft. Images need to have an appropriate statement of copyright permitting their use on Wikipedia, or else they are at risk of rapid deletion.
  • Image:Exit Node.jpg
    • Copyright resolved January 6
  • Image:Tor Client.jpg
• Joseph Kony
• Los Altos High School (Los Altos, California)
• Modest Mouse
• Morningwood
• Scuba set
• The Lovemakers
• Viognier
• Woodside Priory School
  • This is an article whose neutrality is disputed by User:Sethie, but there is no discussion explaining the alleged problem.
  • Additions to the article by User:Frontleft were deleted by ^BlankVerse as a violation of copyright (from this page), and then suggestions for the article, as well as an explanation for the POV tag were left at User talk:Frontleft

Comments were made on some of the associated talk pages.

User:GroupX contributions so far

Also see listed on the Harvard Law School Wiki.

• Alpha Kappa Delta Phi
• Amplitude (game)
• Computer Modern
• Cyworld
• Korean adoptee
• Lowell House
• Navajo sandstone
• Puzzle Fighter
• Stop Snitchin'
• The Mayor of Casterbridge

and the associated talk pages on a few of these articles

User:HLS Group 3 contributions so far

• Alternative country
• Employment discrimination
• Jersey Village High School
• Judicial system of Japan
• Jury
  • Note several people have edited this article since User:HLS Group 3's initial work.
  • Also this article has been flagged as having some part that may be confusing to some readers, in need or re-write.
• Jury in Japan
• Kindergartener hypothetical
  • Note User:Samw has flagged this article as lacking sufficient Wikipedia:Importance.
• List of Buddhist temples
• Puerto Rico
  • Note on Talk:Puerto Rico a link to peer review with ideas on how this article could be improved.
• Spreadeagle
• Wat Mongkolratanaram
• West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South
  • Note this article is part of the school watch project to monitor the progress of articles on schools

Comments were made on a few of the corresponding talk pages, in which there has been some follow-up that when we noticed it, we mentioning on the relevant group talk pages, to help them see what might otherwise get overlooked.

User:TeamLessisMore contributions so far

• Baali (World of Darkness)
• Bloodline (World of Darkness)
• I Spit On Your Grave
• Joe Shuster
• Jonathan Zittrain
  • Note that more than one of the groups contributed here.
• Lakehurst, New Jersey
• Manchester Township, New Jersey
• Sly & the Family Stone
• Sly Stone
  • Note several edits were made after User:TeamLessisMore input.
• Song of the South
• University of North Dakota

Comments were added to the talk pages of a few of these articles.

User:Team Rockstar contributions so far

• Carlos Guillén
• Enlargement of the European Union
  • Several contributors have been active here sinceUser:Team Rockstar's input.
• Hillsdale College
• Justin Verlander
  • New page started by User:Team Rockstar
• Lommedalen
• Nu (Chrono Trigger)
• Pride and Prejudice
• Sheng language

Comments were made on some of the associated talk pages.

Other subpages

If you want to create other subpages or subprojects, please link to them here.

• Talk page

Stub templates

Most cyberlaw topics do not yet have an article about them; those that do tend to be very short articles, or stubs. You can create a stub template to adorn these pages, and categorize them together as short cyberlaw articles needing work.

• e.g. {{Cyberlaw-stub}}
• {{Cyberlaw-stub}}
  • and the associated stub category Category:Cyberlaw stubs

External sources

Here are some links that may have relevant interest from the Internet as a whole.

• Cyberlaw Wiki of Harvard Law School for students participating in this project.
• Risks to the general public due to abuse of technology. You can subscribe to a digest that comes out several times a month. Most of the stories are related to short cuts taken by big business and government, that place consumers at risk. How much risk, is what is discussed here.
• Security in the News You can subscribe to a digest of news links to what is in the news world wide of a security nature ... this is not just computer security, but also national security, much of it with cyberlaw implications. The e-mail generally comes out at the end of each week day.