Hi, On 2 July 2011 23:28, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 July 2011 23:16, Isabell Long <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Sorry to dampen things, but as we're proposing "what if"s, what if some >> of Wikipedia's material was copied to it and it just became a kind of >> duplicate of Wikipedia run, as proposed, by the WMF? There would be >> admins etc, but >> run by students for students: that's not always a good thing. With >> regard to what you said about maybe only articles absent in Wikipedia >> would be >> assigned, that's a good idea (it avoids the direct "what if" mentioned >> above), >> but an assignment you can't straight to a Wikipedia article for >> information but actually have to go browsing the web for? That would >> horrify many students I know. ;-)
Let's try part of the second-to-last sentence again: "... an assignment on a subject you can't go straight to a Wikipedia article for information on...". > 3rd grade, or post-graduate? That's another question I meant to ask: what are we defining "students" as here? > Well, the existence of a Wikipedia article > on almost any subject is always going to be there, no matter what kind of > writing exercise students participate in. Great assignments will be about > subjects our regular editors don't have much interest in but students do, > ephemeral, topical subjects. Ah, right. Like the example you used earlier: an article on Lady Gaga. :-) > Copying from or using Wikipedia, or any other encyclopedia, as a source > would diminish rather than increase evaluation of work; that is pretty > much standard practice anyway. That's very true. This question delves a bit into the specifics and "rules" of running such a project, but would that then get put onto the Wiki (going back to my "what if" in my previous email...), would the student be asked to re-do it, or would all of this be at the discretion of the supervising teacher? I assume the latter, but we don't have to delve into the specifics at this time of night. :-) Isabell. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
