I'm happy to announce that I presented this idea to my class/teachers and they accepted it! Also, four our other students joined on.
My idea is for us to pick a few topics and articles to focus and collaborate on together (ie, NAIT (our school), some local topics, some topics relating to our coursework). Additionally, each member can define their own personal areas of expertise to focus on. The point is that we want to be able to go back to our instructors and say "This is what we focused on, this is what we did" Instead of just pointing them to the contributions list of random page cleanup.
Also, another idea of mine was to write an article on doing just this, using Wikipedia for school community service. Does such an article exist already? Would it be suitable for Wikipedia, or might it be better placed on Wikibooks or similar?
-Greg
On 9/29/05, Greg Andrews gregandrews@gmail.com wrote:
As part of a college class I am in, we are required to, along with at least a few other students, do 10 hours of community service. We are allowed to present our ideas to the class for others to join our cause.
My thought is to use Wikipedia as a community service project. Pledge to spend those 10 hours (ideally non-consecutive) editing, cleaning, and writing for Wikipedia.
I'm set to propose this idea to my class tomorrow. Has anyone done something like this before, and what are you opinions on it?
-Greg