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The grand-daddy of them all... Juan Facundo Quiroga

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This is a remarkable project, and a herculean task realized in the short time span of less than 15 weeks. Jon and his students are model for thinking, sharing and contributing with the open space of the internet. An important act of faith and intellectual responsibility. It is ever so impressive.

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— Jim Groom^[1]

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Gives students real-world experience finding their way, collaboratively, to high standards of content and writing in their field. It's an incredible example of what college students and their inspired teacher can do, collaborating, reflecting, listening, revising.

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— Barbara Ganley^[2]

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Over the course of the last few months I have learned so much about writing I cannot even express... and it shows. I have been a B+/A- student throughout my entire undergraduate career, and my last two papers have been A's! I think the grades speak for themselves.

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— Monica Freudenreich^[3]

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I will no longer allow my daughter to consider attending the University of British Columbia, so long as Murray is paid to teach there.

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— Gregory Kohs^[4]

Shortcut

WP:MMM

The University of British Columbia's class SPAN312 ("Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation") has been contributing to Wikipedia during Spring 2008. Our collective goals are to bring a selection of articles on Latin American literature to featured article status (or as near as possible). So far, we have contributed two featured article and eight good articles.

We have the generous support of the (in)famous FA-Team, who have taken this on as their first mission. We have also been fortunate to have the support of members of Wikiproject Novels. The collaboration of other interested Wikipedia editors would of course be very much appreciated.

Feel free to discuss this project.

Goals

To improve Wikipedia's coverage of selected articles on Latin American literature, particularly those related to dictator novels.

Done Eight new good articles.

To submit these articles to Wikipedia review processes, such as peer review, good article nominations and featured article candidates.

Done

To increase the number of featured articles in this area.

Done Two new featured articles.

News

"Interview with the team behind one of the 2,000th featured articles" Wikipedia Signpost 4.16 (April 14, 2008).
"Dispatches: Featured article milestone" Wikipedia Signpost 4.16 (April 14, 2008).
"Wikinews interviews team behind the 2,000th featured Wikipedia article". From Wikinews.

Articles and groups

Template:FA-inline Featured articles

Template:FA-inline El Señor Presidente (talk · edit · history) (Wikipedia Featured Article number 2000) (April 10, 2008) Will appear on Main Page May 5.

(eecono, katekonyk, mfreud)

Template:FA-inline The General in His Labyrinth (talk · edit · history) (April 19, 2008)

(carlaty, eshiu, Paulleblanc)

Template:GA-inline Good articles

Template:GA-inline Augusto Roa Bastos (talk · edit · history) (April 12, 2008)

(mariap7, nathanlusignan)

Template:GA-inline Dictator novel (talk · edit · history) (April 9, 2008)

(Abarratt, basssrk, Juliemcd)

Template:GA-inline Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (talk · edit · history) (April 7, 2008)

(aliyah, Lpotto, rosefinn)

Template:GA-inline Facundo (April 17, 2008)

(bessiec, Hector Argene, Mjlee27)

Template:GA-inline Gabriel García Márquez (talk · edit · history) (March 30, 2008)

(arantxa.rap, jenbren, jgraworth)

Template:GA-inline I, the Supreme (April 21, 2008)

(kn310376, michaeltufaro, Powars)

Template:GA-inline Latin American Boom (talk · edit · history) (April 10, 2008)

(Miriamcc, rabbitfast)

Mario Vargas Llosa (talk · edit · history) (March 26, 2008)

(Isabel-clase, lincolnchan98, tommaso88)

Template:GA-inline The Feast of the Goat (April 17, 2008)

(Garethshort, jen.chim, sunnybeddow)

B-class articles

Miguel Ángel Asturias

(reabell, Span312)

Milestones

21 April: I, the Supreme is now a Good Article.
19 April: The General in His Labyrinth is now a Featured Article!
17 April: Facundo is now a Good Article.
17 April: The Feast of the Goat is now a Good Article. Three quarters of our articles are good or featured articles!
14 April: Mario Vargas Llosa nominated a Featured Article Candidate!
14 April: The General in His Labyrinth nominated a Featured Article Candidate!
13 April: Miguel Ángel Asturias has failed Good Article review.
12 April: Facundo is up (again) at Good Article Nominations.
12 April: Augusto Roa Bastos is now a Good Article.
10 April: Latin American Boom is now a Good Article. Over half of our articles are good or featured articles!
10 April: El Señor Presidente is now a Featured Article!! It will appear on the mainpage on May 5, a date chosen by Mfreud.

For more, see our archive of progress reports.

Planning and resources

See Planning and resources.

Progress

Final Progress Report (April, 2008)

A summary of how far we have come over the semester:

Augusto Roa Bastos: 4 February, 2008, 396 revisions, 10 April, 2008. GA status achieved.
Dictator novel: 16 January, 2008, 451 revisions, 9 April, 2008. GA status achieved.
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento: 31 January, 2008, 360 revisions, 8 April, 2008. GA status achieved.
El Señor Presidente: 15 January, 2008, 1094 revisions, 9 April, 2008. FA status achieved. Will appear on Main Page May 5.
Facundo: 12 January, 2008, 926 revisions, 17 April, 2008. GA status achieved.
Gabriel García Márquez: 22 January, 2008, 730 revisions, 13 April, 2008. GA status achieved.
I, the Supreme: 3 February 2008, 349 revisions, 21 April, 2008. GA status achieved.
Latin American Boom: 4 February, 2008, 440 revisions, 10 April, 2008. GA status achieved.
Miguel Ángel Asturias: 15 January, 2008, 609 revisions, 13 April, 2008. B-Class status achieved.
The Feast of the Goat: 4 February, 2008, 348 revisions, 17 April, 2008. GA status achieved.
The General in His Labyrinth: 3 February, 2008, 1034 revisions, 19 April, 2008. FA status achieved.

Still in progress: Mario Vargas Llosa.

See our archive of earlier progress reports.

Statistics

Article traffic

Article traffic statistics demonstrate the size of the public for our work. These are the figures for March, 2008:

Gabriel García Márquez: 62,170 views.^[5] Or c. 740,000 views per year.
Mario Vargas Llosa: 11,869 views^[6] Or c. 140,000 views per year.
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento: 5,142 views.^[7] Or c. 61,000 views per year.
Miguel Ángel Asturias: 4,892 views.^[8] Or c. 58,000 views per year.
Facundo: 4,416 views. Or c. 52,000 views per year.
The General in His Labyrinth: 4,119 views.^[9]. Or c. 49,000 views per year.
El Señor Presidente: 3,345 views.^[10] Or c. 40,000 views per year.
Latin American Boom: 3,319 views.^[11] Or c. 39,000 views per year.
Dictator novel: 2,143 views.^[12] Or c. 25,000 views per year.
The Feast of the Goat: 2,031 views.^[13] Or c. 24,000 views per year.
Augusto Roa Bastos: 1,558 views.^[14] Or c. 18,000 views per year.
I, the Supreme: 1,176 views.^[15] Or c. 14,000 views per year.

Some of these page views will be from group members working on the articles.^[16] But not all. Especially for the more popular pages! So there are people out there reading our work.

Google page rank

More information to underscore the significance of this assignment.

These are each article's Google page ranks, using the most likely search parameters:^[17]

Dictator Novel: google rank #1 on first page of results
Facundo: google rank #1 on first page of results
Feast of the Goat (also Goat Feast): google rank #1 on first page of results
General in his Labyrinth (also General Labyrinth): google rank #1 on first page of results
Latin American Boom (also Latin America Boom): google rank #1 on first page of results
Roa Bastos: google rank #1 on first page of results
Domingo Sarmiento: google rank #2 on first page of results
Mario Vargas Llosa: google rank #2 on first page of results
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: google rank #3 on first page of results
Yo el Supremo: google rank #3 on first page of results (though my blog is #2, heh)
Miguel Angel Asturias: google rank #4 on first page of results
El Senor Presidente: google rank #4 on first page of results
I the Supreme: second page of google results

It looks as though the newer pages (El Señor Presidente and I, the Supreme) take a while to get indexed properly. They are likely to move up the rankings.

Members

mariap7 (talk · contribs · count)
Powars (talk · contribs · count)
michaeltufaro (talk · contribs · count)
Miriamcc (talk · contribs · count)
mfreud (talk · contribs · count)
nathanlusignan (talk · contribs · count)
Paulleblanc (talk · contribs · count)
reabell (talk · contribs · count)
rosefinn (talk · contribs · count)
basssrk (talk · contribs · count)
sunnybeddow (talk · contribs · count)
tommaso88 (talk · contribs · count)

Tables

Current ratings (April 20, 2008)

Template:Dictator Novel Grading

Initial ratings (January 14, 2008)

Template:Dictator Novel Grading Initial

Kudos!

		The Original Barnstar
		An original barnstar, in addition to Awadewit's Motivation Award, because the Murder Madness and Mayhem project deserves more than one rusty symbol of its worth--ragesoss (talk) 02:47, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		The Original Barnstar
		WP:MMM is doing awesome work. I only hope my university does something this cool next year! dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 09:27, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		The Original Barnstar
		I read about this project on this week's Signpost, and I'm pretty impressed what you have been able to achieve. Kudos. – sgeureka ^t•c 09:23, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

		The Socratic Barnstar
		For User:Jbmurray/Madness, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-04-14/2000th FA, and their comments on the process. Thanks for being able to take the rough with the smooth, overcome, exceed, and then talk about it. Let's hope we can improve in response. GRuban (talk) 13:55, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Notes

^ Abject Learning
^ bgblogging
^ Wikinews
^ Citizendium Blog
^ Total figure includes Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel García Marquez, Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Gabriel Marquez, García Márquez, Gabo, and Gabriel Garcia Marques.
^ Total figure includes Mario Vargos Llosa.
^ Total figure includes Domingo F. Sarmiento, Domingo Sarmiento, and Sarmiento, Domingo F..
^ Total figure includes Miguel Angel Asturias.
^ Total includes El general en su laberinto.
^ Total includes El Senor Presidente and The President (novel).
^ Total includes Latin America novel boom.
^ Total includes The Dictator Novel and List of books depicting Latin American caudillos (!).
^ Total includes Feast of the Goat, The Feast of the Goat (novel), and La fiesta del chivo.
^ Total includes Roa Bastos and Roa Bastos, Augusto.
^ Total includes I the Supreme, Yo, el Supremo, and Yo el Supremo.
^ Indeed, there was a marked bump for March compared to February. In part this is also because we have been drawing attention to these pages, which is not a bad thing.
^ So I've eliminated quotation marks or accents: Gabriel Garcia Marquez rather than "Gabriel García Márquez", for example.

External links

Lamb, Brian (January 29, 2008), "Wikipedia and new media literacies - a perfect test case is already underway", Abject Learning {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
Beasley-Murray, Jon (March 18, 2008), "Wikipedia", Posthegemony {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
Lamb, Brian (March 18, 2008), "Is murder, madness and mayhem the future of higher education?", Abject Learning {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
Ganley, Barbara (March 18, 2008), "Building a Course, Weaving a Story: Writing the Experience", bgblogging {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
Munro, Karen (March 18, 2008), "Using Wikipedia to Re-envision the Term Paper", Karen Munro, E-Learning Librarian {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
Sanger, Larry (April 1, 2008), "This founder's vision has not yet become reality", Citizendium Blog {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
Lumpenprof (April 2, 2008), "Wikification", Lumpenprofessoriat {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
Lamb, Brian (April 10, 2008), "Viva El Señor Presidente!", Abject Learning {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
McNeil, Brian (April 13, 2008), "Wikinews interviews team behind the 2,000th featured Wikipedia article", Wikinews {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
Moeller, Erik (April 14, 2008), "From the Projects: 2,000th Featured English Wikipedia Article", Wikimedia Blog {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
Elonka (April 19, 2008), "Creating high-quality Wikipedia articles helps university students get an 'A'", Memestreams {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).

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[4] Citizendium Blog

[5] Total figure includes Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel García Marquez, Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Gabriel Marquez, García Márquez, Gabo, and Gabriel Garcia Marques.

[6] Total figure includes Mario Vargos Llosa.

[7] Total figure includes Domingo F. Sarmiento, Domingo Sarmiento, and Sarmiento, Domingo F..

[8] Total figure includes Miguel Angel Asturias.

[9] Total includes El general en su laberinto.

[10] Total includes El Senor Presidente and The President (novel).

[11] Total includes Latin America novel boom.

[12] Total includes The Dictator Novel and List of books depicting Latin American caudillos (!).

[13] Total includes Feast of the Goat, The Feast of the Goat (novel), and La fiesta del chivo.

[14] Total includes Roa Bastos and Roa Bastos, Augusto.

[15] Total includes I the Supreme, Yo, el Supremo, and Yo el Supremo.

[16] Indeed, there was a marked bump for March compared to February. In part this is also because we have been drawing attention to these pages, which is not a bad thing.

[17] So I've eliminated quotation marks or accents: Gabriel Garcia Marquez rather than "Gabriel García Márquez", for example.

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