Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:
Peter C. Wayner (who wrote some books on cryptography
and one on the
free software movement) is again giving a course on computer science
for non computer-science majors. One of the assignments is to
contribute an article to Wikipedia.
Couldn't he make the assignment to write an article in a user
subpage? Then after everything has been graded and everyone got their
credit, the class can sit together and decide which of those articles
are worthy of contributions to the article namespace.
Chl