Show HN: W3clan – User-Curated Tutorial Network (w3clan.com)
w3clan Tutorial Network is platform to create tutorials or documentation of your product or services or any guide/story you wish to share on internet.
Each courses or tutorials or documentation have option to use user custom domain or user custom sub-domain or default is which w3clan sub-domain for free to all users.
site : https://w3clan.com
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 59.1 ms ] threadLots of new product, technology and services are evolving on internet every day and creating documentation about same is boring task for some of developers like me and some of my friend, thus, I started this startup with aim to help users create tutorial or documentation website for any product or services they want in just couple of minute [ Register > My course > Add course > Add Content > Publish ].
1). Not all courses are video course and 2). Not all course on internet are paid course and 3). Not all courses should ask users to signup to watch or read course.
There is none of the platform which provides user to setup their own text based tutorial website with option to use their own domain , sub-domain or default is which w3clan sub-domain.
There is also option for authors to use "Google adsense" inside their tutorial content for monetisation.
I could not find platform what i needed with above option, and i assumed, there could be more like me, who could be needing something like that too. Thus, i created w3clan.
I would love to have any feedback, you would like to share with me for w3clan platform which you think could be beneficial for readers or authors.
Thanks
Thanks a lot.
If any User/Author has taken cite or quoted from any website, they can provide source URL and if source url is not provided than original author may complain us to remove the content.
If Author goes ahead and removes the content or re-write the content, so that there is no plagiarism. w3clan will not ban/suspend their sub-domain or their site.
Due to multi domain network channel, each author has their own tutorial web-site and it is highly recommended, that original author contact the author of tutorial website directly first.
If there is no action taken from authors, than w3clan will remove the content.
@colshrapnel , As per some of the plagiarism report by you , we contacted the author and author has removed all cited lines from their website [ pdo.w3clan.com ]. If any of the texts are still there, you can contact the author or provide us the link, we will take right action , what is needed. Also, please note, w3clan.com has nothing to do with users tutorial website , We can only ban the content and warn the authors, if they are consistenly copying the content without permission and not removing/changing the content after multiple of complain.
Kinda confusing.
Another terrible fake logo that apparently looks more logo-ish than the real logo is the modified HTML5 logo that typically colours the shield yellow (because HTML is red and CSS is blue) and alters the "5" to the letters "JS" or simply "J" or "S" (or even "6" for ES6).
EDIT: some googling shows this Java-derived logo has been around at least since 2010 though probably even earlier. The official community logo was initially announced at JSConf 2011: https://github.com/voodootikigod/logo.js/
I personally don't add any content in it. But Yes, there is message system for authors to communicate and users to communicate privately or on tutorial page. So, I will leave message to author about it.
Yes, w3clan has option to add as many author as one want for his/her course or tutorial or documentation. So, if your course or tutorial or documentation needs multi-author option, you can do that too with w3clan.
http://python.w3clan.com/tutorial/14/introduction-to-python has content taken from http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_overview.htm
http://python.w3clan.com/tutorial/15/variables-and-types has content taken from http://www.learnpython.org/en/Variables_and_Types
And same attitude towards the PDO tutorial plagiarism (https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/4ynd0e/php_data_object...)
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Oh and the owner of the site partakes in the plagiarism as well?
http://rocky.w3clan.com/post/88/terms-and-condition
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xLyWQV...
and http://linux.w3clan.com/tutorial/164/deadly-commands which you can google almost any paragraph from to find where it was taken from
Really really sketchy
1. Python Plagiarism : I have send message to author who created python tutorial, but have not received any message.Enough time has been given to him/her to act on copied content.
2. About PDO, I just see this message :- https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/4ynd0e/php_data_object... and i have responded accordingly.
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3. And yes, about my terms and condition plagiarism, I actually copied from here :- http://rocky.usercv.com/post/13/terms-condition and that's my product too, but content was written by my friend on usercv who actually is CA , but i literally had no Idea, whatsoever , as those content in usercv was strictly copied from mycv terms and condition page.
That is horrible start for me and i won't blame any one , i should have done myself and Now, i have whole night to fix everything up as quickly as possible, before i see my self in errata list, and i don't belong to those list.
Also, I have started getting feeling of restricting the idea of the w3clan platform to self , as i think, plagiarism is never going to stop in such platform. People will keep on copying content from other source to here.
If any one has better idea on how this can be achieved with out plagiarism, you are heartily welcome, else i am shutting down user registration option forever.
The old version - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RQsMH6x...
And the face-lifted one - http://pdo.w3clan.com/tutorial/167/why-pdo
I bet his synonyms thesaurus is smoking right now.
I can't help much. I am sending mail to python author now to respond it back and even if he agrees to rephrase the content.
The contents will not go down.
Also, I am developing "reporting module" where original author can report the copied or whole content to author with reference URL and until author reacts, copied content will remain hidden. After author reaction, if copied contents still remain there, I as an admin will hide the content.
That is all , i can fight for plagiarism option in w3clan portal for users.
Author has replied me back with, "He is going to rewrite the lines that is copied from different sources, and he have right to do , as every one learns form some where and implements it else where", and i believe, he is absolutely right, he has right to RE-WRITE the content and mention the source URL (if author wants) from where he has learnt or gather information to share to community.
Plus, I have already mentioned, I am developing better plagiarism reporting module, which will allow original authors to report the content to author and admin.
I am working on plagiarism reporting tool in platform.
Thanks
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