On 30/10/2007, Utkarshraj Atmaram <utcursch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Just got links to two articles, via "Students
Find That Wikipedians
Are Tougher Graders Than Their
Professor"<http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2497>id=2497>. The
articles were created in December 2006.
Deforestation during the Roman period
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_during_the_Roman_period
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_C…
Both the articles are quite good.
Look at the first version of the article "Deforestation during the
Roman period" (user's only mainspace edit) -- great work for a first
edit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deforestation_during_the_Roman_pe…
Oh yeah. I think Andrew Lih is being somewhat pessimistic of the
potential of a properly-directed class project.
In any case, I suspect we'll be unable to stop professors from
assigning Wikipedia article-writing as a project. So directing people
to our many lists of red links may be a way to turn the unavoidable
problem to our advantage.
- d.