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

[phoebe ayers]

Sorry all -- I just saw Barry's message with a plug for the book after
I sent this. I'm not trying to spam you all! But I am very interested
in the subject of teaching Wikipedia in the classroom -- I've seen
this conversation/question come up many times in discussions both
between educators and between Wikipedians. From the Wikipedia side, we
are definitely interested in supporting good assignments and best
practices for teaching Wikipedia, which help make everyone's life
easier. If there are any suggestions for resources that Wikipedia or
the Wikimedia Foundation could develop that would be helpful for
educators, please let me know and I can share with the community...

-- 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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