Hello Jirka, Experience shows that for many students, producing text of their own is very difficult. The difficulty rises if they have to do that in a foreign language. Translating seems to take away that problem, giving the students an "easier" task. Maybe it is still too difficult if the students have no training in translating. All experience shows that students (or other people) hardly collaborate. If we give them specific tasks to check their mates' articles, they do that pro forma but without much energy. They need an instruction how to do that and an incentive (e.g., that they get extra points for correcting). At least some students like to do the so called "identity management": they produce a text in order to express themselves, their own ideas, their own judgement. They like to blog about what they personally think about a movie or a book. What we expect people to do in Wikipedia is "information management". Especially an encyclopedia needs a neutral point of view. Improving and updating texts is as much important as writing them in the strict sense. This is a very different approach to knowledge. Nearly all people are absolutely not interested in doing that. Also: to correct others requires the students to assume a role they don't like, they have to play a little bit the role of a teacher over their classmates. Many don't go hard on the texts of others, hoping that their own texts are not critisized too much either. I had the advantage that my students were native speakers of the language in which they had to write. I also did not let everybody in class write, only those who volunteered. Mostly that was just a small minority. The other students were participants of "traditional" work groups to explore about Free Knowledge etc. The results of the "article writers" were usually fine. At the end of the seminar, they reported in a presentation about their "way to the article", about the challenges and what they learned. This was very beneficial for all students, to hear from their co students themselves that writing a Wikipedia article is quite a lot of work, what you have to consider etc. A suggestion: how about that you take a public wiki, e.g. Wikiversity or Wikia, and prepare there the structure of a "The Foreign Students' Guide to Brno". Students get tasks to write articles about places they recommend to visit. They can write with passion and choose their topics. In a second step, they have to correct each other texts (for spelling or anything else that is important to you). If the texts are public and possibly even have a use for other students, the incentive to write and to improve texts might be higher than normal. Kind regards Ziko 2015-05-23 10:59 GMT+02:00 Jirka Daněk <dnk(a)mail.muni.cz>cz>: