User:Tahx/ECA Student Wikipedian Project
Students at Emerald Christian Academy study academic writing as part of their Middle and High School Language Arts Curriculum. As they become Wikipedians they will gain a wide range of writing and research skills that will help them when they write research papers at the end of the unit. (While a well written article and research paper have many points in common, the main difference between them is that an academic writing a research paper should abandon NPOV in favor of an effective thesis statement.)
There will be around 40 students working on the project this term. Each student will have a separate Wikipedia account, and each group will work on a series of projects as listed below.
Supervisors: I, Tahx, will take care of introducing students to Wiki and ensuring they and the project are working within the bounds of Wikipedia guidelines.
Start date: The project is designed to be an ongoing part of academic life at EA, but most of the activity will center around the 3rd quarter of the year.
Main project guidelines[edit]
Wikipedia provides some pretty clear instructions about how to behave while working on this project. I cannot and do not have all of the answers about how to work on Wikipedia. No one person can, (as is the nature of all community efforts,) but you are responsible for working within the accepted community guidelines. Part of what we are learning here is how to figure some stuff out for ourselves.
Follow the Ignore all rules policy in Wikipedia, but if you wish to get credit for my class, also follow these rules:
- You get only credit for contribution made when logged in.
- You may not get credit for contributions made without an accurate edit summary.
- You will not receive credit for the unit if you willfully engage in an act of vandalism, even if it is on your friend's user page, and even if both think it's funny.
- You may lose credit for actions that violate any of Wikipedia's policies, guidelines, and culture, even if you did not know about them, particularly after we have studied them in class. Here is a paradox for you: this rule includes violations of Wikipedia's Be Bold policy.
Goal One: Concepts and Community Introduction[edit]
Goal Two: Article Clean Up[edit]
Goal Three: Research & Citations[edit]
Goal Four: Fix a Stub[edit]
Goal Five: Create an Article[edit]
Bonus Goals[edit]
Here are some events I may give extra credit for that are either optional activities or activities the Student Wikipedian may have little or no control over.
- A conflict or interaction with a Wikipedian not associated with the project in which the Student Wikipedian behaves in an exemplary manner.
- Spontaneous contributions made to general Wikipedian culture. (The creation of useful userboxes, for example.)
- Lessons Learned the Hard Way. Disastrous mistakes made while working in good faith that result new knowledge gained about working with Wikipedia. (i.e. having much of your article about the Western Purple Flapping Fire Ant deleted because the information you included applies to all ants in general, not just your particular species)
Emerald Christian Academy's Student Wikipedians 2009[edit]
All ECA Student Wikipedians should add their name to the table below. You can follow the template in the table.