Hi Jane,
(Perhaps we should have this discussion on the grant page itself as
well but) I do want to say that I disagree that this situation proves
that step-wise editing might not help shy people.
The student in this case chose to do their editing in a way which was
comfortable for them. And the
Marielle,
Good point and I will include the links to the blog and the
superspreader talk page on the proposal talk page for reference.
I am definitely not discounting the IEG proposal completely, as I can
imagine the edit button allergy must be a problem for people who use
Wikipedia in the
Hi All,
Over the past 2-3 years, I've organized a number of edit-a-thons here at
Barnard College (an all women's college) in order to promote women in the
content of Wikipedia's articles and in its community of editors. In my work
as a librarian, I've come to believe that Wikipedia is one of the
Hi Megan,
I'm glad this thread got you to post to this list and I appreciate
your input. I don't want to tread on any toes as far as the Education
program goes, and I have never used Wikipedia in a classroom myself,
but of course I agree that it is *imperative* that we bring Wikipedia
into the
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Megan Wacha mwa...@barnard.edu wrote:
... [snip]
To address some of the points raised in this thread -- We strongly
encourage students to begin editing in their sandbox. While, yes, some
students may be shy about editing Wikipedia (in fact, most are), we
