On 30/10/2007, Utkarshraj Atmaram
<utcursch(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Just got links to two articles, via
"Students Find That Wikipedians
Are Tougher Graders Than Their
Professor"<http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2497>id=2497>. The
articles were created in December 2006.
Deforestation during the Roman period
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_during_the_Roman_period
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_Americas_Before_C…
Both the articles are quite good.
Look at the first version of the article "Deforestation during the
Roman period" (user's only mainspace edit) -- great work for a first
edit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deforestation_during_the_Roman_pe…
Oh yeah. I think Andrew Lih is being somewhat pessimistic of the
potential of a properly-directed class project.
In any case, I suspect we'll be unable to stop professors from
assigning Wikipedia article-writing as a project. So directing people
to our many lists of red links may be a way to turn the unavoidable
problem to our advantage.
Should someone maybe write an essay explaining to profs how would be
the best to
go about assigning things related to Wikipedia?