On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When professors and lecturers assign editing Wikipedia to a group of > students, our reaction is often not favorable. I've recently had a long > series of e-mails with lecturers at the University of Scotland and Macquarie > University in Australia about an assignment that was repeated at Macquarie > in three terms. > > When the link between the student accounts was discovered recently, it > turned into a long thread at AN/I where a number of unfriendly things were > said about both the students and the lecturers - and the students' editing, > which wasn't (I think) below what we would expect from new editors, was > treated as a serious problem to be dealt with by blocks and rangeblocks if > necessary. > > If our response to coordinated student editing is dismissive or punitive, > and it often is, then we should not be encouraging educators to assign it to > their students. > > Nathan
Yuck. It's hard enough to help professors do the right thing (I just got back from giving a couple of classroom lectures about wikipedia) when they are so often clueless about how wikipedia works anyway, without extra complications from overzealous admins. There's a group of people listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects who are ready and willing to help with monitoring and cleaning up after such assignments, and helping craft them as well. -- phoebe _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
