Why not do the same work on a userpage/workbench? Then the licence is no problem and the students will know they are doing it for real. That's what I an going to do with a wikibook project (Swedish). Then you do not have to learn how to put up an own wiki on a server. /Harald
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:28:07 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Quantitative Metric and Article Quality > > The first and most obvious difference to me is the hardware, software, and > the know-how required to set up another wiki, which most professors unlikely > have. I, too, am interested in learning benefits of this strategy. > > Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: domusaurea > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 12:07 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Quantitative Metric and Article Quality > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
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