> From: schnautzr@hotmail.com
> To: education@lists.wikimedia.org
> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:28:07 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Quantitative Metric and Article Quality
>
> The first and most obvious difference to me is the hardware, software, and
> the know-how required to set up another wiki, which most professors unlikely
> have. I, too, am interested in learning benefits of this strategy.
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: domusaurea
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 12:07 PM
> To: education@lists.wikimedia.org
> Cc: education@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Quantitative Metric and Article Quality
>
> How would you evaluate the difference between a separate wiki and the
> sandboxes?
>
> Juliana
>
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> Em 03/10/2012, ās 12:57, "Martin Walker" <walkerma@potsdam.edu> escreveu:
>
> > A colleague of mine from our geology department has run article
> > improvement projects for US undergraduates, and he found it very
> > beneficial to have the main editing work done on a separate geology wiki
> > (running Mediawiki) on a college server. Pictures were still uploaded to
> > Wikimedia Commons (and therefore could be read in the college wiki). He
> > was easily able to use the history feature to track students'
> > contributions. Once the work was completed, the professor himself did the
> > edit, presumably after checking for outside edits done while the project
> > was ongoing. Students were able to improve Wikipedia, and see their
> > real-world impact (a very poor article is now good and gets 70,000 hits a
> > year).
> >
> > For what you're proposing, I think a separate wiki like this would be
> > essential. That way the chaos is contained and the Wikipedia biologists
> > aren't going nuts; also, you can assess the students' contributions more
> > easily. Once the work is complete, improved articles can be integrated
> > into the main Wikipedia and everyone benefits.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > Martin A. Walker
> > Department of Chemistry
> > State University of New York at Potsdam
> > +1 (315) 267-2271
> > walkerma@potsdam.edu
> >
> > On 10/2/2012 10:51 AM, Dimce Grozdanoski wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> I want to open discussion and hear some practical ideas or real stories
> >> about projects with large scale editing participation, or how to
> >> distribute assessment to the editors/students who are geographically
> >> distributed throughout the country.
> >>
> >> For example, let's say that we want to recruit 10000 students grouped in
> >> class groups in particular schools to work on biology topics. Each
> >> school must follow the teaching plan / time-line according to the
> >> adopted methodology, i.e. they start with general biological terms then
> >> with kingdoms, ecosystems, interactions of living bing in ecosystem,
> >> evolution, and so on ... And the teachers give one or two assessment per
> >> student of biology in particular class in particular school, to write
> >> new or improve already written article in wikipedia. How to menage this
> >> process? How to measure student work? The goals are to create maximal
> >> number of articles with good quality. How to deal with projects of this
> >> kind in limited time if you have time window of 6 months to start and
> >> finish the project.
> >>
> >> Any idea,
> >>
> >> Dimce Grozdanoski
> >> Wikimedia Macedonia
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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