Sharing Other People's Insights

• It’s like sharing the knowledge that someone else has shared in your own words.

• Recently, I’ve been wondering if this is okay or not.

  • Well, I wouldn’t say I’m worried, but it’s been on my mind lately.

• (The text is from Notion)

  • Of course, directly copying a text is not good, but I don’t think there’s a problem with rewriting and publishing what you’ve read in your own words (takker).
    • For example, yosider adds “from Developmental Disability Survival Guide” at the end of the page.

• In the academic world, not citing sources is not acceptable.

  • Well, that’s obvious.

• As long as no one is bothered by it, it’s fine to do this in a non-academic world.

  • It can be said that if the original knowledge was shared as “everyone’s,” then no one would be bothered.
  • It’s just contributing to the dissemination of information.

(takker)

• When you know where the knowledge comes from,

  • I think it’s important to clearly indicate which literature or whose words it is.
  • Any method of indicating is fine, like the occasional “from xxx” that you see on Scrapbox.
  • By doing so, people who see it can easily trace the source.
  • It’s considerate to both yourself and others.

• When you don’t even know whose words they are,

  • If you want to do it properly, you should write something like “I heard from someone that xxx,” but well, that’s a hassle.

• Personally, I was wondering how much I can summarize information from books.

  • Since books are often already organized systematically, I couldn’t help but think that summarizing information obtained from them is mostly just rehashing.
  • Specifically, after reading Qiitaで記事を公開するときに気を付けるべきマナーについて 〜無断でネットや書籍の内容を丸写しするのはやめよう〜, I’ve been concerned about this.
    • Hmm, yeah… (takker)

• Mentioned links:

  • 書籍で勉強した情報をどの程度まとめ直していいのか
  • 横流し
  • Lately, I often see articles being created in other Scrapbox projects as a result of what I wrote here.
  • It’s not easy to notice, so I think inter-project links are necessary.
  • cf. Webmentionに対応してほしい
  • It seems feasible to implement it to find reverse links from projects in the watch list (takker).