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=== [[University of Tokyo]], Japan (2004-2005) ===

First-year doctoral students in chemistry, as part of a course in academic English writing and presentation for nonnative speakers of English, prepared Wikipedia articles in their areas of expertise. Several times each semester, students drafted articles of about 200 words each and sent them by e-mail to the instructor, who corrected them. The drafts were then discussed in class, with the focus mainly on grammatical and other language issues. Later, the students uploaded their corrected articles to Wikipedia and notified the instructor by e-mail that they had done so, and he checked the articles one more time online and made additional editorial changes. Among the more than 100 articles that the students created or expanded were [[Beryllium oxide]], [[Fluorescence resonance energy transfer]], and [[Sonogashira coupling]]; a complete list appears on [[User:Tomgally#Chemistry_articles|the instructor's user page]].


=== Other projects ===
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For an overview of Wikipedia in relation to schools, see Wikipedia:Schools FAQ.

If you are a professor or teacher at a school or university, we encourage you to use Wikipedia in your class to demonstrate how an open content website works (or doesn't). You are not the first person to do so, and many of these projects have resulted in both advancing the student's knowledge and useful content being added to Wikipedia. An advantage of this over regular homework is that the student is dealing with a real world situation, which is not only more educational but also makes it more interesting ("the world gets to see my work"), probably resulting in increased dedication. Besides, it will give the students a chance to collaborate on course notes and papers, and their effort will remain online for reference, instead of being discarded and forgotten as is usual with paper coursework, or classroom systems which are routinely reinitialized.

Please read Wikipedia:school and university projects - instructions for teachers and lecturers. You may also find Wikipedia:School and university projects - instructions for students useful as a resource for your students. There is also a syllabus boilerplate that you may want to use.

Guidelines

Please do keep the following guidelines in mind:

  1. Practice first yourself before setting an assignment. Log into Wikipedia yourself, and spend some time editing. Do this long enough to get some feedback to your work, preferably long enough to also include negative (and, if you are lucky, unreasonable) feedback which will help you understand some of the more problematic aspects of Wikipedia. If you are not happy about associating this with your academic name, you can easily create a pseudonym - but please create an account for yourself.
  2. Introductions. When you want to start such a project, please briefly describe what you are doing on this page under the "Current projects" heading, and if you think it is distinctive enough, feel free to leave a note on the Wikipedia:Village pump. Leave some contact information in the event that you need to be contacted about your project. Your wikipedia account's talk page is sufficient if you check periodically for new messages.
  3. Keep it real. Please do not encourage your students to create nonsense pages or add junk to articles. Though usually cleaned up very quickly, it still has to be done manually by people who would prefer to engage in more productive work on encyclopedia articles. Furthermore, your students might be blocked from editing Wikipedia for "vandalism." In egregious cases, this will result in your entire school being blocked. If you want your students to 'learn wiki' first, please ask them to read Wikipedia:Help and direct them to Wikipedia:Sandbox for any test or practice edits they wish to make.
  4. Testing and avoiding. It may be a good idea—though not necessarily easy—to run your own wiki and use it for experiments first. Use the MediaWiki software which can be installed on Linux, Windows or Mac OS X - see here. If some students do not want to submit material to Wikipedia (which forces their content to be licensed under the Free content license, the GFDL), they can use this for their final exercise instead.
  5. Account names. Please do not create numerical accounts that match your university or school account numbers. While this may be initially convenient, if your students continue to edit Wikipedia, they may well wish to do so under a real name or a more congenial pseudonym. It also becomes confusing for other Wikipedians to review a number of edits made under very similar account names.
  6. Read The Fine Manual. Encourage your students to take a look at the pages linked from Wikipedia:Help — they should answer many immediate questions.
  7. Copyrights. Please do keep Wikipedia:Copyrights in mind. Not everything on the Web is free for the taking, and even that which is may not be compatible with our licensing. This is true for both text and images. Please remember your students will probably work from your own course notes. Be sure that this is acceptable. Furthermore, check who owns your students' course work. If the owner is your institution, check that you have permission to submit it. If it is your students, ensure that you have their legitimate, probably written, consent to require them to add material to Wikipedia.
  8. Summarize and analyze. Once you have finished a project, we would very much appreciate reading a description of the results. This could be on a separate page if it is long, or on this page in the "Past projects" heading.
  9. No original research. Wikipedia is not the place to publish new ideas, discoveries or articles. We are an encyclopedia, not an academic journal. You should familiarize yourself with our relevant policies, "No original research" and "What Wikipedia is not".

Considerations and suggestions

Wikipedia policy is a combination of written guidelines with unwritten customs, and can be difficult for a newcomer to fathom. Most Wikipedians will be helpful in guiding newcomers and explaining how we do things. However, for the sake of your class we strongly suggest that you yourself contribute here and become familiar with Wikipedia before sending your students. Your students will be much less likely to encounter problems here if you can give them appropriate guidance.

It is especially important to consider what your students will contribute here. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and has certain somewhat nebulous standards for its topics. A look at what wikipedia is not is helpful in finding our topic boundaries.

As Wikipedia expands, students may have trouble finding appropriate subjects for which no article exists. Unless you have specific topics in mind that you know are appropriate, try the following, rather than requiring them to create new ones on their own.

Educational template

We have a template that can be easily copied and adopted to create a wiki-syllabi for your course on Wikipedia. See: Wikipedia:School and university projects/Piotrus educational boilerplate.

Suggested exercises

[Please add more.]

Current projects

Wayne State University

User:POL SLA 3750 WSU W2007 has the following text on his/her/their userpage: Polish & Yugoslav Cinema Class at Wayne State University (WSU) Winter 2007 semester. The user is contributing to Polish/Yugoslav films. Possibly a class project of some kind.

University of East Anglia (Spring 2007)

Nicola Pratt, is using Wikipedia as an assessment tool in her Introduction to the Contemporary Politics of the Middle East, which is a Masters' level course in the School of Political, Social and International Studies. This is a pilot project, funded by the University of East Anglia as part of its teaching fellowships scheme. The project aims to improve the teaching and learning experience of Masters' level students. Engaging with Wikipedia should help to develop student awareness of the contested nature of knowledge production, as well as of rigour and balance in writing. As part of this project, students will be editing, on a weekly basis for eight weeks, Wikipedia articles related to issues in Middle East politics. The second part of the assessment is that students will write their own articles for Wikipedia. My challenge is to develop appropriate assessment criteria for grading their efforts.

Truman State University (Fall 2006)

Scott Alberts, an associate professor of Statistics at Truman State University, is using Wikipedia for a project in his Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies course. Wikipedia is a useful resource for such a class because it relates to interdisciplinarity in many ways. Both require the contributions of many people from a wide variety of backgrounds in order to present as much information as possible and develop a holistic view of any topic. No complete encyclopedia could be written exclusively from the point of view of, for example, a scientist, because the final product would leave out such vital information as history and social issues. Similarly, students of interdisciplinary studies understand that real-world situations and issues require the knowledge of multiple academic disciplines working in concert. Also, actively working on Wikipedia teaches students how to write for a variety of audiences and how to work constructively with other editors. Such experiential learning is more rewarding and more effective than traditional classroom teaching. It stimulates the students' desire to excel and their interest in what they are doing when they know that their work will be seen by others. The students are forced to think interdisciplinarily in order to contribute meaningful information to such a comprehensive project. Both Wikipedia and interdisciplinary thinking rely on links and connections between traditionally segregated fields. Every properly formatted Wikipedia article links to many others, allowing readers to discover ties between seemingly unrelated subjects. Similarly, interdisciplinarity often involves connecting aspects of different disciplines to form a new and unique area of study.

As part of the project, students have provided information on Truman State's Interdisciplinary Studies program on Wikipedia, and have also added content concerning interdisciplinarity itself. Dr. Alberts is using his user page as a base for the project.

Commonwealth of Learning's Wikieducator

Wikieducator is a community resource supported by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) for the development of free educational content. COL is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning and distance education knowledge, resources and technologies.

The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative:

  • planning of education projects linked with the development of free content;
  • development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning;
  • work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs.
  • networking on funding proposals developed as free content.

Oberlin College (Spring 2007)

Elizabeth Colantoni, an associate professor of Classics at Oberlin College, is using Wikipedia in her undergraduate level course "The Eternal City: Ancient Rome Built, Imagined, and Remembered." Each student in the course will be evaluating a Wikipedia article about an ancient Roman monument as part of a research project. Articles will be evaluated for accuracy, having up-to-date information, being too short or overly verbose, having useful and active links, references to print media, and whether it provides, on the whole, a good source for someone who wants to learn about the monument. Students have been encouraged to edit the articles to improve any perceived short comings. If there is no article, students will be create a short article. Articles involved in the project have had their talk pages tagged with an identifying template. The project will conclude in May 2007.

Planned projects

Penn State University (2006)

General--purpose wiki(s) for student--based class descriptions, student organizations, peer advising, and a number of other topics beneficial to the university. Gchriss 20:20, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Detailed at [1]

University of Karachi (2006)

Confirmation is awaited of a project by the Department of Mass Communication in the University of Karachi. See Wikipedia talk:Mass communication in Pakistan. -- RHaworth 14:54, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cory Doctorow's USC COMM499 Class to Focus on Wikipedia Editing (2007)

If this has already been brought to administrators' attention, please feel free to delete this section wholesale. Just thought y'all should know that Cory Doctorow's USC course is evidently going to have rather heavy Wikipedia interaction [2]:

It's a COMM499 course and open to all students, regardless of your major. The main class assignment is to work through Wikipedia entries on subjects we cover in the class, in groups, identifying weak areas in the Wikipedia sections and improving them, then defending those improvements in the message-boards for the Wikipedia entries.

— Whedonette (ping) 21:09, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, I'm not sure how much defending of good, valid edits that they'll have to do... thanks for the heads up. I, for one, had not heard about this. EVula // talk // ☯ // 21:52, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Of course we have a place for that. :) Do you mind moving this discussion to Wikipedia:School and university projects? - Taxman Talk 23:31, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Franklin University (2007)

We are planning to create a short course for Adjunct Faculty where they will experience using the Wiki with their own courses they teach. The course will be listed under Professional Academic Development. Contents will include examples of Wiki based assignments as well as a place for faculty to suggest new projects.

Antioch University, New England (2007)

Master's level students in Dr. Jon Atwood's Ornithology class will be required to prepare Wikipedia articles regarding various bird conservation issues and initiatives during Spring semester. This class is part of Antioch's multidisciplinary Environmental Studies Department. --Cagn 18:17, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Past projects

MIT -- "Music 1900-1960" (Cuthbert) -- Music and Theater Arts (Fall 2006)

Further information: [[:User:Mscuthbert]]

New articles and substantial expansions of articles on works and composers. Some modified or created articles include:

Particular emphasis was placed on improving the use of music analysis in Wikipedia articles, which generally lags far behind what would be found in other music encyclopedias.

Cornell University (Fall 2006)

Further information: [[:User:Susato]]

An end of term project for a senior level engineering course on downstream processing. Eleven students created or expanded articles on unit operations and equipment for production of purified biosynthetic pharmaceuticals and refined food ingredients. Warm-up assignments included creating a user page, editing text in an existing article, and adding a citation to an existing article. Students were assigned to review each others' work on the article discussion pages; the resulting public reviews were too brief and general. Markups in MS Word with changes tracked proved more useful. Some Wikipedia regulars visited the articles and left feedback, usually as summary tags - these were extremely useful. At this writing the project is likely to repeat next year, with additional warm-up exercises in image management (a major challenge), categorization, and citation. susato 23:07, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

University of Art and Design Helsinki - Media Lab Helsinki (Fall 2006)

Further information: [[:User:Teemu]]

In the first course exercise of the "Brief History of New Media" course students were asked to choose an article from the Wikipedia that was related to the theme of the course and improve it. Students made research and expanded the articles. The research and changes made to the Wikipedia article were also documented in another report that was delivered for the teachers.

The following articles were expanded:

The exercise brief is online (PDF): http://mlab.uiah.fi/briefhistory/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/exercise1.pdf

The course blog: http://mlab.uiah.fi/briefhistory/

Yale University (Fall 2006)

Further information: [[:User:Ragesoss/HIST 236]]

Students in HIST 236, "History of Modern Science in Society", researched and wrote history of science-related articles for inclusion in Wikipedia. The following articles were either created or expanded:

I've also created a page of advice and instructions about using Wikipedia for humanities and social sciences writing assignments: User:Ragesoss/Assignments

Indiana University (Fall 2005-Summer 2006)

In two sections of CMCL C121, "Public Speaking", groups of 4-5 students will be given an article from Wikipedia which matches their team presentation topic. They will be asked to verify the information in the Wikipedia article using non-internet sources (that is sources which are not exclusively on the internet). They will then submit which bits they have been able to verify, not verify, or refute. The instructor is considering giving the students extra-credit for adding their references and/or correcting mistakes on wikipedia. If this is done, an introduction page will be created for the students explaining what they can do. In addition, I will list the relevant pages here for observation. --best, kevin ···Kzollman | Talk··· 02:57, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

University of Pittsburgh (Summer 2006)

A Group Project about Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Disorders/Syndromes is being carried out by professor Ellen Cohn of the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. Feel free to direct any questions to User:Piotrus who is an assistant. The project will end by August, and should result in more then a dozen of new articles or improvements to existing one onthe above subjects.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 15:39, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

During the projects the following pages were created by the students:
And the following pages were expanded:

-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus  talk  22:12, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

St. Cloud State University (Spring 2006)

Matt Barton, an assistant professor of English at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, has decided to start a Rhetoric Portal in his rhetorical theory class. [9]

He previously assigned and coordinated the creation of the Rhetoric and Composition Wikibook. Liblamb 18:32, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

University of Hong Kong (Spring 2006)

For this Spring 2006 assignment, U21/HKU Human Security students (undergraduates) have been placed in teams to contribute substantive information on Human security to Wikipedia. The objective of this assignment (which comprises 25% of the final grade) is to create a comprehensive and balanced Human Security Wikipedia article. The instructor (LMCinHK) started a Wikipedia article entitled Human security then placed students in teams with specific parameters for how to expand that article. Each team is responsible for a different facet of human security on which to elaborate and students are evaluated not only on their written contributions, but also on the effectiveness of their editing. The idea is for students to learn from the advice of their own teammates, but to also benefit from the editorial feedback of fellow Wikipedia contributors. The course will end in mid May 2006.

Background information about the course and specific instructions given to students are reproduced on my user page <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LMCinHK> (although I have withheld the student names in order to protect their privacy.) My thanks to Piotr Konieczny / Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus and Kevin Zollman / kzollman who both kindly agreed to allow me to adopt some of their student instructions from their respective university project web pages located at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Pitt-Societies-2005> and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/Indiana_CMCL>. --LMCinHK 07:19, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

University of Tartu, Estonia (Spring 2006)

In Spring Term 2006, Professor Wolfgang Drechsler taught a seminar-style class on e-Governance: problems and issues (in English), in which the Wikipedia was a topic. The main written assingment was likewise a Wikipedia new article or change (preferrably about an e-Gov topic), according to the standards, which all students carried out. They were allowed to do so on the English, German, or Estonian wikipedia.

University of Maryland (Spring 2006)

Projects for Dr. Kent Norman's spring semester 2006 graduate course, Seminar in Human Performance Theory: Human/Computer Interaction, at the University of Maryland, College Park involved the creation of several articles:

It should also be noted that as a joke, one of the students wrote an article on the Wroon, which was deleted as Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense after an article for deletion debate; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wroon.

In another class, Thinking and Problem Solving, groups of 3-5 undergraduate students created five articles as team projects:

In preparation for writing the articles, all students performed a simple edit on some article of their own choice. In class, students discussed the pros and cons of writing articles on Wikipedia. A short report on lessons learned will be available at the Cognitron website. During fall 2006, these students were asked to complete online a brief follow-up questionnaire about the projects.

University of California, Irvine (Winter 2006)

Jeffrey Barrett, Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, will allow students to write/rewrite two wikipedia articles in the areas of Philosophy of Science or Epistemology instead of writing a seminar paper in his graduate level "Epistemology of Science" class offered in the Winter term of 2006. I am auditing this class, and have offered to be a liason for any students working on this project. At least two students have suggested interest. --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 00:09, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dartmouth et al (2005)

A group of Dartmouth undergraduates were recently encouraged to contribute new articles to Wikipedia. Some of the contributions were perfect; others were quickly listed on Votes for deletion (VfD). More details can be found on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion, WikiEN-l, and the teacher's userpage.

Oregon State University (2005)

University of Hong Kong (Fall 2005)

In what has become a project nearly every semester, Andrew Lih's (User:Fuzheado) class in new media is covering WTO topics, and has been editing the following articles:

Project will be concluded on November 30, 2005.

Georgia Institute of Technology (Fall 2005)

Three classes of English 1101 spent a good portion of the semester drafting an entry on print culture for Wikipedia. Throughout the semester we've read a variety of texts on print culture and worked in small groups to draft versions of the article. We have posted an article and will be editing it. We will also be observing and discussing in class the edits other users make. You can see our drafting efforts at our test site using MediaWiki. We also used pbwiki to draft some of the article. Project will end sometime around 12/09/05.

Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (Fall 2005)

As part of BAI530, a Leadership course in the Bachelor of Applied Information Systems Technology program, students are required to participate in group community service projects of at least 10 hours of work. This semester (Fall 2005), five students opted to use those 10 hours contributing to Wikipedia. Some of the articles they contributed to include:

University of Virginia (Fall 2005)

December 2005. Students in one section of an undergraduate (fourth-year) engineering thesis course have been asked to contribute a Wikipedia article (or expand an existing stub) on the expertise acquired in their major assignment this semester: writing an engineering research proposal. The proposal includes a literature review and rationale section, from which they can draw material suitable for a Wikipedia article.

They have been asked to read the available Help resources on creating good Wikipedia articles. Each has submitted a letter to me (the instructor) stating that they understand that they are licensing their work under the GFDL (those who did not wish to do so can submit the article to me instead of posting it). Comments welcome (use my user talk page). Bryan 21:24, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The following articles have been posted (so far):

Here is a link to the assignment. Bryan 22:38, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

University of Vienna (2002, 2005)

See /Vienna 2002-2003 and /Vienna 2005-2006.


University of Washington (Seattle, Spring 2005)

Course Webpage

The undergraduate class Society and the Oceans (SMA/ENVIR/SIS 103) includes a project to make a Wikipedia contribution on the Puget Sound, Puget Sound environmental issues, South Maury Island environmental issues, the live food fish trade or the aquarium fish trade.

Update. The course appears to have ended in the first half of 2005. There is little activity on the related articles.

Teletraffic engineering (2005)

See Wikipedia:Deletion_policy/Teletraffic_Engineering for discussion.

  • specifically, there are some issues about the quality and verifiability of the work submitted. The project appears to have been started around early 2005 and has ended by now, but some users are still cleaning up related articles as of summer 2005.

University of Georgia / Memento (Fall 2005)

An English class at the University of Georgia rewrote and added a lot of material to Memento (film). The article was expanded, but many of the class's contributions were original research and needed to be cleaned up. See Talk:Memento (film). Rhobite 21:57, 5 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

ELP 127 (Summer 2004)

User:Kaisersanders has been teaching English to foreign business students, these being:

Contributions to Wiki Pages by ELP 127 Students:

and appears to have finished around 30 July 2004.

Columbia University School of the Arts (New York City, Fall 2004)

Open Source Culture: Intellectual Property, Technology, and the Arts is an interdisciplinary graduate seminar offered in fall 2004 at the Columbia University School of the Arts. For more information on this project, see Wikipedia:School and university projects/Open Source Culture.

Update. The course appears to have ended in the 2004. There are no edits since December 2004.

Bad Mergentheim Business School (Spring 2004)

International Management Class: We studied Customer Experience Management (CEM), a new marketing concept in our class and as an outcome of this, all 19 students shared their insights into CEM at Wikipedia, so others can quickly get into CEM as well. We hope that our texts are easy to understand and do welcome any changes or further contributions.

The results can be found at: Customer Experience Management (CEM)

As one contributor to another, (and without anywhere else to write this) can I encourage the students in this project to create a login, so that there is somewhere than we can provide helpful feedback and advice on this project. DJ Clayworth 16:30, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Update. The course appears to have ended in the 2004. There are very few 2005 edits so far.

Norwegian School of Management (Norway, spring 2004)

I am tasking the students to create an account for themselves, edit some pages (in the English or Norwegian version of Wikipedia,) and reflect on their experience. The English assignment page is at User:Espen/gra6821 (there is also one in the Norwegian version. The list of participating students (created by the students themselves) is at User:Espen/gra6821/stud6821 (as well as in the Norwegian version.) The students are Master level business school students, the course title is Technology Strategy and Strategic Technology, and the topic for the lecture and assignment is collaborative software. I will underscore the importance of Wikipedia culture, NPOV, and so on, and use the experience to drive a discussion about what makes collaborative software work (or not.) Espen 11:48, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Update. The course appears to have ended in the first half of 2005. There is little activity on the related articles.


University of Hong Kong (2003 - 2004)

14 July 2003: User:Fuzheado "teaches at the University of Hong Kong and is using Wikipedia to help teach his normally very structured students a lesson about the chaos and joy of collaborative editing." Several numerical accounts have been created for the students. The class at the Journalism and Media Studies Center is called You've Got Mail: Interactive Media, News and Communication

Designed for advanced undergraduates, the course examines the interactive technologies that are increasingly influencing the way people communicate, share news and create relationships. The course will look at how and why people are using interactive games, Kazaa’s peer-to-peer technology, web cameras, chat rooms, talking avatars, wireless and other technologies. It will also challenge students to assess the usefulness of new technologies and forecast how they will impact society and different cultures.

Students have been broken into groups of roughly seven people each, and asked to contribute to a specific topic related to Hong Kong or Chinese culture. The topics include: Lamma Island, Dim sum, Mongkok, Chinese tea culture, Chinese white dolphin, MTR, Beaches of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Tramways, Victoria Peak, Ecology of Hong Kong, Education of Hong Kong, Newspapers of Hong Kong, Apple Daily.

There may be a tendency for Wikipedians to keep their "hands-off" these sections as they're being produced by students. Please don't! Preserve the dynamic of Wikipedia - keep your hands in it, and treat them as any other Wikipedians. Part of the experience is to work with strangers to collaboratively edit, each person pitching in what experience they have -- grammar, editing, rewording, links, context, statistics, etc.

UPDATE: CNN International Tech Watch aired a segment this morning on the Wikipedia and our student project. See CNN TechWatch videos for a streaming video of the segment. -- Fuzheado 05:35, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)

  • Spring 2004, FOSS0001: Media in Contemporary China, will be using Wikipedia to create articles on some media organizations in China, such as: China Youth Daily (newspaper), Caijing (magazine), News Probe aka Xinwen Diaocha (a news programme of China Central Television), Sina.com (web)

University Saarland (Germany, 2003-2004)

Institute for Information Science

Materials that were generated during the German course Knowledge Representation and Information Retrieval WS2003/2004 were integrated in de.wikipedia by the lecturer and (hopefully) the students. Details about the articles can be found on the course-page and on [10].

Portland State University (Spring 2003)

Spring 2003: Bart Massey taught another offering of his ongoing combinatorial search class. His difficulty in finding an acceptable course textbook after a number of years of trying led to the idea of having students create content on Wikipedia that reflected the course materials, for future use.

The experiment was a mixed success. Some useful Wiki pages were created (e.g. combinatorial search, constraint-satisfaction problem). Some other pages were edited to reflect new content (e.g. best-first search). While Bart was not aware of this page or its guidelines at the time, he believes that they were mostly followed. In particular, he tried to edit all the inserted material for content and style (although failing somewhat at the latter).

Ultimately, much of the material collected was created offline on the course Wiki and elsewhere, and has never been incorporated into Wikipedia. This is a shame: if some other Wikipedian wanted to assist with this, that would be great. Otherwise, Bart will get around to it sometime before the next course offering: the project is currently moribund.

(For what it is worth, Bart agrees with the comments of Fuzheado above: Wikipedians, please do not be shy about helping clean up these pages. They could still use editing and addition.)

External Link: Bart's PSU CS 443/543 Combinatorial Search course page.

University of Tokyo, Japan (2004-2005)

First-year doctoral students in chemistry, as part of a course in academic English writing and presentation for nonnative speakers of English, prepared Wikipedia articles in their areas of expertise. Several times each semester, students drafted articles of about 200 words each and sent them by e-mail to the instructor, who corrected them. The drafts were then discussed in class, with the focus mainly on grammatical and other language issues. Later, the students uploaded their corrected articles to Wikipedia and notified the instructor by e-mail that they had done so, and he checked the articles one more time online and made additional editorial changes. Among the more than 100 articles that the students created or expanded were Beryllium oxide, Fluorescence resonance energy transfer, and Sonogashira coupling; a complete list appears on the instructor's user page.

Other projects

Resources

Case studies

  • Lakhani, Karim R. and Mcafee, Andrew P. (2007) Harvard Business School Professors use Wikipedia as a Case study. Harvard Business School Accessed January 2007.

See also

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