I have a draft
up at [[Wikipedia:School and university projects -
instructions for students]]. Alterations appreciated, and anyone else
willing to help please stick your name down...
I think the idea is good, it's just that...
Well. The tasks proposed are a bit dreary.
Personally I have literally never created
an article because it was requested. I prefer
to write about things I know about, or at least
know the context for, and the requested articles
never seem to be in my field of knowledge. My
guess is that I'm not unique in this respect.
(I have, though, participated in the Missing
Articles project, writing on Scandinavian topics.)
The standard welcoming messages with the open
tasks also seem rather unattractive to me.
Very few people join Wikipedia because they
want to fix syntax or clean up bad prose on
subjects they don't care about. This comes
later when people mature as Wikipedians.
Regards,
Haukur
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