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Overlap in our Wiki Ed courses
editToday I noticed that students in both of our current Wiki Ed courses selected Lotte Strauss as an article to improve.
The students in my course have just moved content out of their sandbox and into the main article. They've also created a disambiguation page. Peer editing is scheduled for the last week in February.
Do you have suggestions on how we can make this a good experience for all of our students? Should we introduce them and get them all working together?
Estregger (talk) 14:42, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
- Hi! OK, my students are scheduled to move content from their inboxes this week too. Is Lotte Strauss the only overlap article? This has happened to us before, and students just contribute what they can to improve the article, but the instructor didn't contact me. Thanks for your message! I think it would be great to collaborate and have students "meet", but how? Our class meeting times are Tuesday and Thursday from 12:30-1:45 Eastern Standard Time. If you happen to overlap maybe we could actually have the students meet in a conference-type virtual call (like we could have our whole class meet by FaceTime or Skype). Otherwise, perhaps we can just have individuals communicate through Wikipedia talk pages. I'm open to ideas!
CuCat (talk) 18:54, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, Lotte Strauss is the only overlap article. I messaged Will Kent at Wiki Edu and he had some excellent suggestions on what the students could add if their initial plans were similar: "If you are worried that your group will not have enough to work with as a result of splitting the article, you could always assign a related topic, association, individual, etc. (other winners of the Lotte Strauss prize, more information on the Society for Pediatric Pathology, Jacob Churg, Donald Gribetz, the Jacobi Medallion, etc.). Although these articles would not be directly about Lotte Strauss, they would link to her article, adding completeness to her entry." I don't think that setting up a Skype meeting will work because the main instructor for the course is moving on to other topics. Communicating on the talk pages would be great! And then maybe at the end of the project we could give them a Teamwork Barnstar?