Good point about attribution. Actually, I checked the edit, and I
found the students made the final edits, but presumably after the
content had been checked by the professor (who did NONE of the final
edits). Another feature - the professor worked closely with the Geology
WikiProject, who were aware of the class project going on - this is
often wise!
Martin
Martin A. Walker
Department of Chemistry
State University of New York at Potsdam
+1 (315) 267-2271
[email protected]
On 10/3/2012 12:01 PM, Gorilla Warfare wrote:
I worry a bit about your mention of "Once the work was completed, the
professor himself did the edit, presumably after checking for outside
edits done while the project was ongoing." As far as Wikipedia's
licensing goes, that raises a lot of questions about proper
attribution.
- GorillaWarfare
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Martin Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
A colleague of mine from our geology department has run article improvement
projects for US undergraduates, and he found it very beneficial to have the
main editing work done on a separate geology wiki (running Mediawiki) on a
college server. Pictures were still uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (and
therefore could be read in the college wiki). He was easily able to use the
history feature to track students' contributions. Once the work was
completed, the professor himself did the edit, presumably after checking for
outside edits done while the project was ongoing. Students were able to
improve Wikipedia, and see their real-world impact (a very poor article is
now good and gets 70,000 hits a year).
For what you're proposing, I think a separate wiki like this would be
essential. That way the chaos is contained and the Wikipedia biologists
aren't going nuts; also, you can assess the students' contributions more
easily. Once the work is complete, improved articles can be integrated into
the main Wikipedia and everyone benefits.
Martin
Martin A. Walker
Department of Chemistry
State University of New York at Potsdam
+1 (315) 267-2271
[email protected]
On 10/2/2012 10:51 AM, Dimce Grozdanoski wrote:
Hi folks,
I want to open discussion and hear some practical ideas or real stories
about projects with large scale editing participation, or how to
distribute assessment to the editors/students who are geographically
distributed throughout the country.
For example, let's say that we want to recruit 10000 students grouped in
class groups in particular schools to work on biology topics. Each
school must follow the teaching plan / time-line according to the
adopted methodology, i.e. they start with general biological terms then
with kingdoms, ecosystems, interactions of living bing in ecosystem,
evolution, and so on ... And the teachers give one or two assessment per
student of biology in particular class in particular school, to write
new or improve already written article in wikipedia. How to menage this
process? How to measure student work? The goals are to create maximal
number of articles with good quality. How to deal with projects of this
kind in limited time if you have time window of 6 months to start and
finish the project.
Any idea,
Dimce Grozdanoski
Wikimedia Macedonia
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