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.
- d.