[Air-L] assigning students their college/university wikipedia page

[phoebe ayers]

One more note on the topic of teaching and assigning Wikipedia editing
in the classroom -- there's an essay by J.B. Murray on the topic here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jbmurray/Advice

which should be required reading for anyone considering it. He lays
out the challenges and practical steps required for a successful
Wikipedia assignment, based on a good deal of experience.

best,
Phoebe

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:08 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not only is there a Wikipedia page about the subject, there's also a
> group of Wikipedians who are ready and willing to help out with
> assignments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Classroom_coordination
>
> The main things to remember is that Wikipedia is not a controlled
> environment -- students will be interacting with other editors who
> neither know (nor care) that they are students, and that there are
> very definite rules for editing -- verifiability, no original
> research, and npov need to be followed. Encyclopedic writing is also
> very different from most academic writing, and can be difficult even
> for experienced authors to do well. If students approach working on a
> Wikipedia article like working on a typical school paper where you
> make an argument based on limited research, they will run into
> trouble.
>
> There's a short appendix on using and assigning Wikipedia in the book
> I recently published, "How Wikipedia Works." You can read it here --
> http://howwikipediaworks.com/apb.html.
>
> best regards,
> Phoebe
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Michael Zimmer <zimmerm at uwm.edu> wrote:
>> I would also like to hear about people's experiences with assigning projects
>> that involve creating/editing WP content.
>>
>> To that end, there is a WP page dedicated to its use in school projects:
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects>
>>
>> -mz
>>
>> --
>> Michael Zimmer, PhD
>> Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
>> Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>> e: zimmerm at uwm.edu
>> w: www.michaelzimmer.org
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 10, 2008, at 2:44 PM, David M Silver wrote:
>>
>>> aoir people,
>>>
>>> has anyone had any experience with assigning students the task of
>>> altering, improving, and tweaking their university page on wikipedia? in
>>> other words, has anyone assigned their college/university wikipedia page
>>> as a site of construction for a class? if so, i'm curious to hear any
>>> anecdotes, experiences, best-practices, relevant readings, and anything
>>> else you wish to share.
>>>
>>> david silver
>>> http://silverinsf.blogspot.com
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