http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/04/design-professor-gives-students-real-world-experiences-through-wikipedia-assignment/ News from the Wikimedia Foundation and about the Wikimedia movement Wed, 22 May 2013 17:44:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6-beta2-24176 http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/04/design-professor-gives-students-real-world-experiences-through-wikipedia-assignment/comment-page-1/#comment-64978 Conxa Roda Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:13:11 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=8931#comment-64978 Great story of the experience!
At our Postgraduate on Museum Management we also had our students write or improve an article about a museum on Wikipedia. Beforehand, a workshop on editing was run by an experienced Wikipedian @kippleboy. Here is the page of the Wikiproject (in Catalan) http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:Museus_(IDEC-Museu_Picasso)
They were given access to the Museu Picasso resources and others. The experience was really great, also hard but rewarding at the end. A couple of students have contineud editing now and then.
We’ll repeat the experience on this term: it’s a good editing exercise, they have to make research and quote sources appropriately, they become aware of the strict Wikipedia editing process, they contribute to a social project, they learn, and they may become future Wikipedians!.
Thank you for sharing
Conxa
@innova2

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