Hi,
On 2 July 2011 23:28, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
On 2 July 2011 23:16, Isabell Long
<isabell121(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry to dampen things, but as we're proposing "what if"s, what if
some
> of Wikipedia's material was copied to it and it just became a kind of
> duplicate of Wikipedia run, as proposed, by the WMF? There would be
> admins etc, but
> run by students for students: that's not always a good thing. With
> regard to what you said about maybe only articles absent in Wikipedia
> would be
> assigned, that's a good idea (it avoids the direct "what if" mentioned
> above),
> but an assignment you can't straight to a Wikipedia article for
> information but actually have to go browsing the web for? That would
> horrify many students I know. ;-)
Let's try part of the second-to-last sentence again: "... an
assignment on a subject you can't go straight to a Wikipedia article
for information on...".
3rd grade, or post-graduate?
That's another question I meant to ask: what are we defining "students" as
here?
Well, the existence of a Wikipedia article
on almost any subject is always going to be there, no matter what kind of
writing exercise students participate in. Great assignments will be about
subjects our regular editors don't have much interest in but students do,
ephemeral, topical subjects.
Ah, right. Like the example you used earlier: an article on Lady Gaga. :-)
Copying from or using Wikipedia, or any other
encyclopedia, as a source
would diminish rather than increase evaluation of work; that is pretty
much standard practice anyway.
That's very true. This question delves a bit into the specifics and
"rules" of running such a project, but would that then get put onto
the Wiki (going back to my "what if" in my previous email...), would
the student be asked to re-do it, or would all of this be at the
discretion of the supervising teacher? I assume the latter, but we
don't have to delve into the specifics at this time of night. :-)
Isabell.