On 30/10/2007, Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From what I've seen surveying the various
classroom projects people
have tried, the most successful are ones where some effort is made to
screen topics for encyclopedicity and gaps in Wikipedia's coverage,
and/or the assignments are focused on interacting with the Wikipedia
community (i.e., content is posted early and students follow the fate
of their work over the semester).
Yes. Rather than just telling the students "go write something", send
them to a wikiproject's list of redlinks, or to the missing articles
project:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_art…
With university research facilities onhand, writing some decent
articles with good references shouldn't be much work at all. We'll get
more good content and they'll get a good introductory experience to
Wikipedia.
- d.