On 8/13/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Each student uses the Random article generator
(perhaps with the help of
a bot) to generate a list of ten articles that already exist on
Wikipedia. He does not see the articles, only the titles. He then
proceeds to write a first draft of an article on a chosen topic from
that list. He uploads the article to a local wiki where the other
students can view and edit the article. Marks can be allocated for
different types of writing and editing, including big marks for
achieving NPOV on a controversial topic and marks taken off for getting
into an edit war.
It'd be better for us if they worked on articles that *don't* already
exist on Wikipedia...
(Incidentally, anyone ever think of trying to contact teachers of
translation classes to set them Wikipedia articles as translation
exercises? There are lots of articles, including featured articles,
waiting to be translated from other wikipedias...)
Steve
Steve