If the professor wanted to be tough, he could tell the students they drop by
one letter grade on the assignment if their article goes to VfD and is
deleted
(rather than merged) before the end of the session. 1/2 :-)
Stan
Laura Scudder wrote:
Except then it wouldn't get edited mercilessly by
other Wikipedians.
The students will probably work a bit harder if they know it's going
into the main article namespace where it will be subjected to many
eyes and editors than if it's in their user namespace.
Besides, we don't make other newbies' first articles go up for approval.
Laurascudder
On 8/15/05, Chris Lüer <chris(a)zandria.net> wrote:
Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:
Peter C. Wayner (who wrote some books on
cryptography and one on the
free software movement) is again giving a course on computer science
for non computer-science majors. One of the assignments is to
contribute an article to Wikipedia.
Couldn't he make the assignment to write an article in a user
subpage? Then after everything has been graded and everyone got their
credit, the class can sit together and decide which of those articles
are worthy of contributions to the article namespace.
Chl
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