Wikipedia talk:School and university projects/ITESM Campus Toluca/Assignments

Is there a way to upload files, like Word documents, as a file to click and download? I cant copy/paste the assignments here as they are too long. Thelmadatter 21:45, 26 July 2007 (UTC)Thelmadatter
 * I don't believe so. I think cut-and-paste is all you can do. Sorry.  J- stan  Talk 21:50, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
 * You could create a special subpage, like maybe User:Thelmadatter/Assignments, though, and put the info there. John Carter 21:52, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Hmmm... I don't think the problem is a question of length. However, I do see three issues to be concerned about.  The first one is technical.  You cannot upload MS Word files to Wikipedia for others to download.  You could upload them somewhere else and link to them from here.  You could also cut-and-paste them into subpages as John Carter suggests above.  However, when you do this, you will lose all the formatting from MS Word and you will have to go through each assignment and re-format it using Wiki markup.  This is not hard to do, just tedious.


 * The second problem is not technical but rather one of policy. The use of Wikipedia as a central coordination point for an academic class is inconsistent with the objective of Wikipedia which is to create an encyclopedia.  At the risk of overloading your brain, the appropriate place for such an activity might be WikiBooks.  You could easily post all your course materials there.


 * The third issue is around copyright ownership of materials posted to Wikipedia or Wikibooks. Note that in posting to either of these, you would be releasing your work according to the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.  That should not be a big issue since you would be doing that if you posted the course materials on Wikipedia.  However, I did want to bring the issue to your attention since you might not wish to do this if you want to retain proprietary copyright ownership of your course materials.


 * One way to retain copyright ownership of your course materials would be to set up a Yahoo! group or a Google group and post the materials there. Setting up a group would limit the people who could access your materials and also allow you to assert copyright ownership over the materials.  I know this is yet another thing for you to learn.  However, I would advise you to give this some serious thought as it would be difficult for you to reassert copyright ownership of materials once they are posted to either Wikipedia or WikiBooks.


 * NB: If you post links to the course materials on Wikipedia or Wikibooks, you do not give up copyright ownership in the materials. It is only if you post the actual text on either Wikipedia or Wikibooks that you give up ownership rights per WP:GFDL.


 * --Richard 22:26, 26 July 2007 (UTC)