User blog comment:NOBODY/BC Bow Contests update brought due to the Nitrome Wiki? + Plagiarism + User awards/@comment-3060206-20130407054123

Coincidence. Well, I always think it's a coincidence. I don't really want to assume Nitrome Wiki has had an influence on the development of Nitrome and their games; it should be the other way around. Besides, Nitrome did update Twin Shot 2 a while back, so why not do the same with their other MochiCoins content game?

Uh, well, I probably mentioned this before, but Nitrome Wiki's articles aren't exactly under a copyright law. In fact, the editor brings up a small footnote mentioning that all edits made here (and all other wikis) are under a licensing called "Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0". Visit Community Central's licensing page and the text under the first heading says:

"...all users editing or otherwise contributing to wikis that use the CC BY-SA license agree to grant broad permissions to the general public to re-distribute and re-use their contributions freely for any purpose, including commercial use, in accordance with the CC BY-SA license. Such use is allowed where attribution is given and the same freedom to re-use and re-distribute applies to any derivative works of the contributions."

In short, none of us really own our edits. Anyone is free to copy and use information from this wiki however they want, so long as they somehow bring up the fact it came from Nitrome Wiki. Now say if someone copies an entire page and puts it on their own wiki, it isn't "plagiarism". Even if they forget to link back to Nitrome Wiki, we can just remind them or link it ourselves. Not a big deal.

Come to think of it, this user you bring up probably created the page with the intention of helping out Wikipedia, because there was no page for it within the list of games. The poor user didn't even claim it as his/her own work, and got accused of plagiarism.

The Cuboys are cute (I was wondering what they were for!) and would make a nice decoration to any userpage. I don't know; some wikis do have little award trinkets that users give to other users when they do certain tasks. Maybe just make the userboxes little template trinkets available for users to give out to other users when they want to leave a nice note of appreciation for their help on the wiki.