Wikipedia:WikiProject Cyberlaw

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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.

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WikiProject on Cyberlaw

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.


[edit] Participants

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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

Categories

Policy and meta-pages

[edit] Other content

[edit] Negative content : Deletion

[edit] 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.

[edit] Relevant Harvard Cyberlaw Links

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

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


[edit] 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

[edit] User:CLGroup1 contributions so far

Comments were made on some of the associated talk pages.

[edit] User:CyberGroup contributions so far

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.

[edit] User:Frontleft contributions so far

Comments were made on some of the associated talk pages.

[edit] User:GroupX contributions so far

Also see listed on the Harvard Law School Wiki.

and the associated talk pages on a few of these articles

[edit] User:HLS Group 3 contributions so far

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.

[edit] User:TeamLessisMore contributions so far

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

[edit] User:Team Rockstar contributions so far

Comments were made on some of the associated talk pages.

[edit] Other subpages

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


[edit] 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

[edit] 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.