What would you mean by "superfluous templates"? Infoboxes and such?

Juliana.


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Craig Franklin <[email protected]
> wrote:

> The obvious problem I see is that adding a lot of bytes to an article
> doesn't necessarily equate to adding a lot of *value* to an article.  On
> enwiki at least, it's probably very easy to inflate the bytecount by
> inserting superfluous templates and the like into an article, without
> actually adding any content.  At most I'd recommend using it as a rough
> guide for students as to when an article *may* be ready, and then assess
> the articles qualitatively after that.
>
> Cheers,
> Craig
>
>
> On 28 January 2014 11:12, Juliana Bastos Marques <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> *NOT a CFP!* ;)
>>
>> Hello all!
>>
>> I have been thinking about using the criterion of a minimum number of
>> bytes to evaluate the students' edits for my next course - together with
>> content, of course. This came up because I noticed some students were
>> editing as little as possible, and this time I want the whole group to
>> start new articles from scratch.
>>
>> Has anyone used this approach? Pros/cons? What would you consider a
>> reasonable number for the minimum of bytes in the final article?
>>
>> Juliana.
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