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For me, the most
important thing is making
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sure assignment design is good.
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Do the assignment first.
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Really try to go through.
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We've designed an
assignment, so how
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does it look for you
when you do it yourself
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in preparation for bringing
your students into Wikipedia.
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When I teach them about
everything in Wikipedia,
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I stress the fact that you
cannot copy the entire contents
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of your textbook into Wikipedia.
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Plagiarism is something
we ran into over and over.
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And so really learning,
students plagiarize--
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we need to talk
to them about it.
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They need to understand
what is plagiarism,
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what is close
paraphrasing on Wikipedia,
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why is it wrong,
why is it bad, why
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will it be found, and just help
them learn how to avoid it.
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I'm very straight
about the references
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because one thing that I
want them to understand
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is that you have to
find good references.
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One of the most important
things is for instructors
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to investigate their
students' skills.
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So if you are targeting,
for example, arts students,
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you should prepare them to add
to Commons more than Wikipedia
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because they will not be
really interested in writing,
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but they will be interested
in taking pictures of stuff.
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I work with the teachers and
the postgraduate students
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of this department.
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They have a great collection of
images of under the microscope.
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We upload these pictures
to Wikipedia Commons
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and we write descriptions of
what a particular image is.
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And then we put these images
with their descriptions
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to Wikipedia
articles themselves.
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What the students
basically do is
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write medical-related
articles in Wikipedia.
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It's called Wiki-Med.
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I run it at Sackler
School of Medicine
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at Tel Aviv University.
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So far, my students
wrote about 170 articles.
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Those articles got around
a million views so far.
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I took that course and
I adjusted it a bit
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to open it to not only
medical students, but students
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from every discipline on campus.
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And we got a special
permission from the director
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at the University to basically
give an elective course
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to every undergraduate student.
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One of the models of
working with teenagers
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is just giving them
assignments for students,
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but they should be a bit
easier because they're not
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on the knowledge level
of university students.
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So giving them a bit
easier task is something
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that has proven to be better.
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Making sure you
know where they are
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before you assign
them something that
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is going to be too challenging
for them is important.
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Usually, Wikipedia will be
a bit too advanced for them
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to do writing assignments.
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So we have something
called Wikimini,
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for example, which
is a separate wiki.
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And it's the free
encyclopedia for children,
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who children edit.
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Creating articles in
Wikipedia name space
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or their username name
space is something
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better because it
doesn't immediately
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go to the mercy
of the community,
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but they can work on
it in weeks to come,
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right, and just polish the
article until it's ready.
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Editing Wiktionary doesn't
have the same requirements
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as editing, writing an
article in encyclopedic style.
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When they gain
enough experience,
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they can move to Wikipedia.
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They can write Wikibooks.
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We've had both students
on the university level
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and high school level
work on Wikibooks,
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which is not as
strict as Wikipedia
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in terms of rules and policies.
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OK, if there's a two-week
assignment, why don't you
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finish your Wikipedia article
in the middle of the first week.
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And then you have one whole
week for fixing all the typos,
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adding the references.
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Having a course page for your
class is super important.
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You need to document
what are the user
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names, what is the
content they're actually
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adding to Wikipedia.
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After you have done something,
make sure that you document it.
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