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
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?
As long as your instructor doesn't require anyone at Wikipedia to certify that you did the community service. It would be hard for us to certify how many *hours* you spent editing.
Kelly
On 9/29/05, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
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?
As long as your instructor doesn't require anyone at Wikipedia to certify that you did the community service. It would be hard for us to certify how many *hours* you spent editing.
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I suppose Special:Contributions could be used to certify your work on wikipedia! Cruccone
Sounds good. I'll take you on as an assistant in an arbitration case if you like. See Wikipedia:Requests for Arbitration. You can do some leg work, try to figure out who did what. Detective work really.
Fred
On Sep 29, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Greg Andrews 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?
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heh Fred. Trying to get out of some work? :P
On 9/29/05, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
Sounds good. I'll take you on as an assistant in an arbitration case if you like. See Wikipedia:Requests for Arbitration. You can do some leg work, try to figure out who did what. Detective work really.
Fred
On Sep 29, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Greg Andrews 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 _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
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No, just offering him some serious work.
Fred
On Sep 29, 2005, at 5:54 PM, Phroziac wrote:
heh Fred. Trying to get out of some work? :P
On 9/29/05, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
Sounds good. I'll take you on as an assistant in an arbitration case if you like. See Wikipedia:Requests for Arbitration. You can do some leg work, try to figure out who did what. Detective work really.
Fred
On Sep 29, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Greg Andrews 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?
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Just giving you a hard time. I think that would be a pretty neat job for "community service". Would be a LOT of work though. ;)
On 9/30/05, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
No, just offering him some serious work.
Fred
On 9/29/05, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
Sounds good. I'll take you on as an assistant in an arbitration case if you like. See Wikipedia:Requests for Arbitration. You can do some leg work, try to figure out who did what. Detective work really.
Arbitration assistants have been talked about several times before. Can't see how it would be a bad thing, although the Arbs would be obliged to at least spot-check the assistant's findings for accuracy before relying on them.
Kelly
Concur. On 9/30/05, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
Arbitration assistants have been talked about several times before. Can't see how it would be a bad thing, although the Arbs would be obliged to at least spot-check the assistant's findings for accuracy before relying on them.
On 9/30/05, Phroziac phroziac@gmail.com wrote:
Concur. On 9/30/05, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
Arbitration assistants have been talked about several times before. Can't see how it would be a bad thing, although the Arbs would be obliged to at least spot-check the assistant's findings for accuracy before relying on them.
What is the reason for the community service assignment? A lot of times you're supposed to do community service as a way to observe a group working together, or practice in working together. In just editing pages you don't see much of the inner workings of the group of core wikipedians, so helping out with arbitration might give you more of an insight.
Finne/henna
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One thing to point out. Any Wikipedia user can become involved in any arbitration case by trying to figure out which events and evidence are significant and putting that information on the evidence page, or commenting on talk pages about those issues. Often our litigants throw a blizzard of stuff at us which is difficult to process.
If there is activity on the workshop page, where propositions are sometimes initially advanced, comment on those propositions are also helpful as an indication of community opinion.
Fred
On Sep 30, 2005, at 12:57 AM, Finne Boonen wrote:
On 9/30/05, Phroziac phroziac@gmail.com wrote:
Concur. On 9/30/05, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
Arbitration assistants have been talked about several times before. Can't see how it would be a bad thing, although the Arbs would be obliged to at least spot-check the assistant's findings for accuracy before relying on them.
What is the reason for the community service assignment? A lot of times you're supposed to do community service as a way to observe a group working together, or practice in working together. In just editing pages you don't see much of the inner workings of the group of core wikipedians, so helping out with arbitration might give you more of an insight.
Finne/henna
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Ah ah,
I love that idea. I always thought that it would be great if wikipedia could establish some sort of very vague partnership with teaching institution so that students would use their work to complete wp.
Greg Andrews 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 _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
Greg Andrews 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
Hi, if you know well a non-english language, I can give you a translation assignement if you are interested.
Ant
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
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Greg Andrews wrote: <snip>
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?
Put it on meta (meta.wikipedia.org)
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On 04/10/05, Greg Andrews gregandrews@gmail.com wrote:
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?
Perhaps put something at [[Wikipedia:School and university projects]]?
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