Except then it wouldn't get edited mercilessly by other Wikipedians. The students will probably work a bit harder if they know it's going into the main article namespace where it will be subjected to many eyes and editors than if it's in their user namespace.
Besides, we don't make other newbies' first articles go up for approval.
Laurascudder
On 8/15/05, Chris Lüer chris@zandria.net wrote:
Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:
Peter C. Wayner (who wrote some books on cryptography and one on the free software movement) is again giving a course on computer science for non computer-science majors. One of the assignments is to contribute an article to Wikipedia.
Couldn't he make the assignment to write an article in a user subpage? Then after everything has been graded and everyone got their credit, the class can sit together and decide which of those articles are worthy of contributions to the article namespace.
Chl
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