[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Lesson Plan

[David Goodman]

As for the article on Horse, I hope this wasn't the real example used
in class, because by the time the letter was written, it still had no
references. The current state of the article is due to the subsequent
improvements by a number of experienced Wikipedians.


David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>> Fred Bauder wrote:
>>> http://weblogg-ed.com/2005/wikipedia-lesson-plan/
>>>
>>>
>> Indeed, must have worked very well, since as of 2009 [[horse]] has 211
>> references, an advance on 0 when that was written.
>>
>> I encountered a group of college students editing a somewhat neglected
>> article I had started, encouraged by a professor who had set groups the
>> task of improving historical pages. The article was better than before,
>> but there were some basic issues with what they did that required a
>> little more than the addition of "house style" by me.
>>
>> Charles
>
> No surprise there; you're an experienced Wikipedia editor, and with lots
> of additional material to work with, can do much better than a bunch of
> newbies, however scholarly.
>
> Fred Bauder
>
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