I recently wrote a stack of pieces for Stockholm University’s new international website. Seeing that they announced that the site is now available in Beta on the university homepage through their main news outlet, I clicked over to have a look.
Imagine my disappointment to see that that all the articles I wrote have been accredited to another author: Jan Löf!
Now I appreciate that this is a beta version and I’m assuming that my name will actually be visible on the site when it is no longer in beta; nevertheless, it would have been a nice courtesy to actually give credit where credit is due right from the outset. Especially as they’re publicising the beta from the university’s home page..
Stockholm University obviously needs to brush up on its netiquette.
Update:
I received the following in an e-mail from SU. I guess the moral of the story is, beware of beta versions when journalists scrutinise your every move.
At the moment the admin person who adds the text gets credited as ‘author’. Unfortunately this is not possible to change at the moment, though it is on the list of technical development and bugfixes. We are working on rectifying this.
Update 2
: June 11.
Had an e-mail from the university. My name has been added to the pieces. I’m impressed SU acted so quickly once they were aware this was a problem.
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