[WikiEN-l] Welcoming Peter C. Wayner and...

Mon Aug 15 15:45:11 UTC 2005

If the professor wanted to be tough, he could tell the students they drop by
one letter grade on the assignment if their article goes to VfD and is 
deleted
(rather than merged) before the end of the session. 1/2 :-)

Stan

Laura Scudder wrote:

>Except then it wouldn't get edited mercilessly by other Wikipedians. 
>The students will probably work a bit harder if they know it's going
>into the main article namespace where it will be subjected to many
>eyes and editors than if it's in their user namespace.
>
>Besides, we don't make other newbies' first articles go up for approval.
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>Laurascudder
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>On 8/15/05, Chris Lüer <chris at zandria.net> wrote:
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>>Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>>         Chl
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