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Wikipedia:School and university projects |
Everyone is welcome here. If you're a professor, teacher, or student within the college community, we encourage you to use Wikipedia and/or Wikiversity in your class to demonstrate how an open content website works (or doesn't). Many of these projects have resulted in both advancing the student's knowledge and useful content being added to Wikipedia. An advantage of this over regular homework is that the student is dealing with a real world situation, which is not only more educational but also makes it more interesting ("the world gets to see my work"), probably resulting in increased dedication. Besides, it will give the students a chance to collaborate on course notes and papers, and their effort might remain online for reference, instead of being discarded and forgotten as is usual with paper coursework, or classroom systems which are routinely reinitialized.
WikiProject Classroom coordination exists to provide guidance to educators who incorporate Wikipedia writing assignments into their classes. Post questions for experienced Wikipedia volunteers at the talk page. Instructions for teachers and lecturers and instructions for students are useful resources. There is also a syllabus boilerplate that you may want to use.
Please do keep the following guidelines in mind:
Wikipedia policy is a combination of written guidelines with unwritten customs, and can be difficult for a newcomer to fathom. Most Wikipedians will be helpful in guiding newcomers and explaining how we do things. However, for the sake of your class we strongly suggest that you yourself contribute here and become familiar with Wikipedia before sending your students. Your students will be much less likely to encounter problems here if you can give them appropriate guidance.
It is especially important to consider what your students will contribute here. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and has certain somewhat nebulous standards for its topics. A look at what Wikipedia is not is helpful in finding our topic boundaries.
As Wikipedia expands, students may have trouble finding appropriate subjects for which no article exists. Unless you have specific topics in mind that you know are appropriate, try the following, rather than requiring them to create new ones on their own.
We have a template that can be easily copied and adopted to create a wiki-syllabus for your course on Wikipedia. See: Wikipedia:School and university projects/Piotrus educational boilerplate.
Please add more.
Students are invited to add {{EducationalAssignment}} to the Talk page of articles which are created or get significant changes due to an assignment. The ending date and link to the project are optional: {{EducationalAssignment|date=YYYY-MM-DD|link=Wikipedia:School and university projects#PROJECT}}
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An assignment was created by Davida Scharf, Director of Reference and Instruction at NJIT's Van Houten Library and tested in both online and face-to-face junior-level technical communication classes taught by Prof. Carol Johnson in the Fall of 2007. The basic assignment was to create a new topic or revise an existing topic on Wikipedia. Some results can be seen at the class website. This project has been incorporated into the syllabi of several other professors at NJIT and will be ongoing.
Professor Mara Scanlon is teaching a Long Poem seminar and her students have been working on a collaborative article in a stand alone MediaWiki to frame the history and significance of this poetic genre. As of April 1st, 2008, they created the Long poem Wikipedia article and are currently working on formatting it correctly, citations, and various other details. Jgroom (talk) 09:22, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Professor Kristan Wheaton teaches an Intelligence Communications course twice yearly, part of which includes a publication assignment. In Spring 2008, he assigned a dozen students to contribute new articles on topics he preapproved in the areas of intelligence reform, analytical techniques, etc. He plans to continue these assignments in the future, having found the experience effective in teaching online collaboration, publication, and research skills. See Professor Wheaton's blog for a list of the articles and his feedback on the assignment. --Pat (talk) 02:25, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
In Spring 2008, students in Professor Lambin's undergraduate level Historic Preservation Law class took on the task of expanding on the Wiki content related to historic preservation law. There is a tremendous body of relevant historic preservation case law out there, but, for the non-practitioner, it can be challenging to find and interpret. It is hoped that these new expanded articles will make this information more readily accessible to preservationists. Students were able to choose from a range of pre-approved articles. Some students will create new articles, while others will expand on existing content such as articles on major pieces of historic preservation legislation, including the National Historic Preservation Act. This will be an on-going assignment and will take the place of the final research paper. In Winter 2009 it will take the place of the final research paper. To learn more or to provide comment, contact Professor Lambin in Talk. A list of completed articles is coming soon.
Students in Professor Corso's courses, Art History 101:Introduction to Western Art and Art History 291: Concepts of Modern and Postmodern Art, will edit existing Wikipedia articles on Western art, paying attention to both Wikipedia:Five Pillars and Strunk and White's guidelines in The Elements of Style. Further information will be posted shortly.
Freshmen students in Professor Foster's course on American Indian Law, History, and Literature will be expanding and creating new Wiki content related to four major areas of American Indian law and history through small groups. Individuals in each group will focus on particular sections under the major areas. This will be an on-going assignment. Details on each area of focus will be provided soon. Feel free to contact Professor Foster in Talk if you have suggestions and advice, as we are all 'noobs' to this process.--Tolfoster (talk) 03:01, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
GEOS 4320 (The Physics and Chemistry of the Solid Earth) – An undergraduate class co-taught by Dr. Robert Stern and Dr. John Ferguson. The class will split in to several groups to create or greatly expand articles on a subject relating to the class for a final project (due at the end of the semester). More information to come.
Students in the Hindu Law course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be editing a series of articles related to both Hindu law and Dharmaśāstra. The collaborative project will expand and improve these existing articles and create a number of new (sub-)articles that enhance the information on law, legal theory, legal institutions, and legal history in India, especially in connection to Hindu traditions. The goal is to provide good articles on important subtopics in these fields and to enhance the broader information on Hinduism and Comparative law.
The University of British Columbia's class SPAN322 ("North of the Río Grande: Latin American Civilization and Culture") is contributing to Wikipedia during Fall 2008. Our collective goals are to bring a selection of articles on Chicano and Latino literature to featured article status (or as near as possible):
Please see our our project page. We welcome help and participation from other Wikipedia editors.
The project coordinator is User:jbmurray. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 11:45, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Anderson University (eBusiness) class has been assigned the project of adding meaningful and substantial information to the Wikipedia entry on Anderson University (Indiana) by Emmett Dulaney, Assistant Professor of Marketing Anderson University. The guideline they were given was that they could add nothing that could not be substantiated elsewhere, or that was not worthwhile (nothing trivial).
An AP Biology class is contributing content to biology-related articles. See the project page (Wikipedia:WikiProject AP Biology 2008) for more information.
A first-year composition class is adding content to film pages and/or creating film pages. Students were first oriented to Wikipedia using the Five Pillars and WikiProject Films. They are asked to research the film in Wikipedia and, cross referencing with WikiProject Films, to determine the essential rhetorical elements of a good film page. They then propose edits to existing film pages, or the creation of new pages, using the talk pages. This project will conclude in November, 2008. --Bob Cummings (talk) 14:36, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
A junior/senior level engineering course of 9 students is adding content in the area of bioseparations (purification of proteins and other natural products). Among topics selected for coverage are centrifugation, fast protein liquid chromatography, and apheresis. The project will terminate in December 2008. susato (talk) 17:02, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
A first-year Religious Studies course (Religious Studies 110) has been divided into small groups (3-5 students) and assigned the task of fact-checking, editing and expanding 28 articles related to Chinese religions. This project was assigned in September 2008 and will terminate in November 2008. User:Usask_RelSt110
Dr. Silver's Intro to Media Studies to work on improving University of San Francisco and similar articles. See Wikiedia:Wikiproject University of San Francisco. Questions to phoebe / (talk to me) 04:21, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
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