How would you evaluate the difference between a separate wiki and the sandboxes?
Juliana Enviado via iPhone Em 03/10/2012, às 12:57, "Martin Walker" <[email protected]> escreveu: > 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Education mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
