[WikiEN-l] Dartmouth follies

[Jens Ropers]

On 25 Aug 2004, at 02:50, wikien-l-request at Wikipedia.org wrote:

>  The instructor
> commented that he didn't know how you could give an objective grade to
> "improving an article."

He doesn't know the history tool then.
What's wrong with using something like this:

	http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml? 
title=Gray%27s_Anatomy&diff=5327961&oldid=5248468

That's making it pretty obvious what to grade, IMHO.

Yes, admittedly, if there are many edits by other's in between, then it  
might become difficult. -- But how about this:
Instruct students to stick the {{inuse}} tagon the article they've  
chosen to improve (see [[Template:Inuse]]).
IMPORTANT: Also instruct them not to leave that on there longer than a  
day!

(Other then that, they could use the preview function and commit all in  
one go. Might be difficult though if they are using a certain thing  
called "MSIE", where with certain versions, if you press ESC within a  
text box it blanks the entire thing irrevocably). It might be better to  
have them use an external editor then, but that doesn't protect them  
from edit conflicts.
So clearly the previous option is MUCH better.)

- Jens [[User:Ropers]]