[WikiEN-l] Future avenues of garnering participation; or, How Wikipedia is currently a crappy/crack-tastic game

[Steve Bennett]

On 8/13/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Each student uses the Random article generator (perhaps with the help of
> a bot) to generate a list of ten articles that already exist on
> Wikipedia.  He does not see the articles, only the titles.  He then
> proceeds to write a first draft of an article on a chosen topic from
> that list.  He uploads the article to a local wiki where the other
> students can view and edit the article.  Marks can be allocated for
> different types of writing and editing, including big marks for
> achieving NPOV on a controversial topic and marks taken off for getting
> into an edit war.

It'd be better for us if they worked on articles that *don't* already
exist on Wikipedia...

(Incidentally, anyone ever think of trying to contact teachers of
translation classes to set them Wikipedia articles as translation
exercises? There are lots of articles, including featured articles,
waiting to be translated from other wikipedias...)

Steve

Steve