Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-7981828-20130825001301/@comment-7981828-20130825105345

Dragon trip wrote: If you use forums, you could do a highlighted forum with the policy. All registered users would receive a notification so they would see it at least once. I assume only registered users can add the content?

You could also update your greeting to new users (registered or not) that explains the importance of following this particular rule.

I have this done for registered users, will tweak for unregistered as well.

Sophia McLaren-Cobb wrote:

Your best choice would be a highlighted forum post with the policy. Another thing to do is make a Project page about the policy. If they keep doing it, try the AbuseFilter.

This wouldn't entirely work, since there are some people who copy paste legit page sources, but I could probably tweak it to prevent the copy pasting of unconverted page sources, since we have a page convertor program that converts PmWiki to MediaWiki, and since most of our copy pasters don't use it, that would solve half the problem, and since the unconverted page source leave markup not needed in MediaWiki, that could work. Some have also done "HTML page source" copying, where the content is just a HTMLed rip of an actual page via Chrome or Mozilla's view page source context menu option, and since we don't want those either, I could add a tweak to prevent that as well.

I already have a highlighted forum post or two about plagiarism being bad and a page or two about what's legit and how to convert it to our wiki, but the suggestions I've been given are quite helpful, so I'll look into implementing them as well.