---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Piotr Konieczny piokon@post.pl Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:39 PM Subject: [Wikimedia Education] an example of "dreaded" students mentality To: education@lists.wikimedia.org

I saw this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/POLENG

Highlights: * "I hope you won't delete it, because I won't get a grade for it..." * "But Please please please don't delete it till wednesday evening, than after that if it's still wrong you can delete it."

Wen evening was the 6th. The student last edits are from the 6th.

Sigh.

Oh, and it appears that it is a class by one of those instructors who don't really "grok" Wikipedia (assigning students to write articles on potentially non-notable article, lack of participation in Wikipedia themselves...).

Sigh.

On a constructive note, I wonder if we should try to contact people at Bremen who may know who taught the course, so they can be informed about our programs? I'd bet on the student following our suggestions and passing the info on the projects to the professor.

http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/anglistik/langpro/projects/gem/projteam.html

-- Piotr Konieczny

"To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat." --Józef Pilsudski

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