When professors and lecturers assign editing Wikipedia to a group of students, our reaction is often not favorable. I've recently had a long series of e-mails with lecturers at the University of Scotland and Macquarie University in Australia about an assignment that was repeated at Macquarie in three terms.
When the link between the student accounts was discovered recently, it turned into a long thread at AN/I where a number of unfriendly things were said about both the students and the lecturers - and the students' editing, which wasn't (I think) below what we would expect from new editors, was treated as a serious problem to be dealt with by blocks and rangeblocks if necessary.
If our response to coordinated student editing is dismissive or punitive, and it often is, then we should not be encouraging educators to assign it to their students.
Nathan
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:34 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://social.mis.temple.edu/happyhourand20minutes/2008/11/25/extra-credit-2...
I like this.
- d.
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