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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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Hi, I am Rocky Sharma, founder of w3clan.com site.

Lots 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

Just about to start some work but this looks like a seriously good idea and I hope I'll have time to test it tonight.

Thanks! Let me know, if you find it useful or have any feedback to share.

You still haven't removed the obvious copyright violations I mentioned prior

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

Hi RubyPinch,

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.

Looks like the guy set out to work of re-phrasing the texts. Look what he did with PDO:

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.

Hi colshrapnel, Yes, the author has said me, he will be rephrasing the content and will make it unique.

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.

Just re-phasing doesn't make the work any original. It is still plagiarism. I demand that all stolen parts were not rewritten but removed.

Hi, I have updated the reply here :- https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/4ynd0e/php_data_object...

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

The tutorial for "Introduction to javascript" uses the Java logo as it's image/thumnail. That would scare me away if I was interested in learning javascript.

Sadly this isn't the first time I've seen that logo (it's actually a modified version of the Java logo that changes the text to "JavaScript" in the same font). Because the quasi official JS logo (black letters "JS" in the bottom right of a yellow square) looks less "logo-ish" than this it's often used by people unfamiliar with the language.

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/

Hi, Actually all the tutorial are made by users who are registering to w3clan.

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.

As many features w3clan has, some of which mentioned here :- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12341180 also has One very important feature and that is "Multi Author" option.

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.

Maybe you should look for someone to proofread the website, especially the front page. Too many typos and grammatical errors will drive users away.

That is little hard currently to hire some one for proofread. If any user here would like to voluntarily help, that will be great.

Thanks

You say it is "tutorials and documentation" on the website, I click "view all tutorials" but then the buttons switch to "view lesson".

Kinda confusing.

View lesson basically means lesson in tutorial related to your search. I reversed it back to `tutorial`, Lesson keyword was my bad idea, i guess.

Tiny feedback, /s/subsciption/subscription.

Typo fixed. (y)

Why did you name your website "Warcraft 3 clan"?

It is world wide web 3 clan.

Posts without URLs get penalized, so we've made your post point to the site. Good luck.

Whoops! I was not aware of that.

Thanks a lot.

This site consists of deliberately plagiarized content. The site owner hypocritically admits the plagiarusm and keeps promising to remove it but all remains in place.

If true, that's bad. If the site shows up again and this is still the case, we'll ban it.

That is not the case. w3clan is multi domain tutorial network channel.

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.

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