Quoting David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
On 30/10/2007, Utkarshraj Atmaram utcursch@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. 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_Co... 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_per...
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.
Should someone maybe write an essay explaining to profs how would be the best to go about assigning things related to Wikipedia?