[WikiEN-l] Make your students edit Wikipedia for extra credit

[David Gerard]

2008/11/26 Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com>:

> If our response to coordinated student editing is dismissive or punitive,
> and it often is, then we should not be encouraging educators to assign it to
> their students.


It depends on the quality of the assignment they give. I liked this
one because it was "You have to make an actual good addition, no
foolin'." We've had other student editing projects that have resulted
in fantastically good new material. YMMV, but I certainly wouldn't
regard it as an intrinsically bad idea.


- d.