Not exactly. If the terms and conditions of uni-wiki give over the
copyright to the professor where xe is allowed to release the rights
under the CC BY-SA.

--Guerillero

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Gorilla Warfare
<[email protected]> 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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