Wikipedia:School and university projects/2009 past projects

Older documentations are under Wikipedia:School and university projects/Past projects 2003-06.2009.

Savannah College of Art and Design (Spring 2008) (Ongoing)

In Spring 2008, students in Professor Lambin's undergraduate level Historic Preservation Law class took on the task of expanding on the Wiki content related to historic preservation law. There is a tremendous body of relevant historic preservation case law out there, but, for the non-practitioner, it can be challenging to find and interpret. It is hoped that these new expanded articles will make this information more readily accessible to preservationists. Students were able to choose from a range of pre-approved articles. Some students will create new articles, while others will expand on existing content such as articles on major pieces of historic preservation legislation, including the National Historic Preservation Act. This will be an on-going assignment and will take the place of the final research paper. In Winter 2009 it will take the place of the final research paper. To learn more or to provide comment, contact Professor Lambin in Talk. A list of completed articles is coming soon.

Mercyhurst College Institute for Intelligence Studies (Spring 2008) (Ongoing)

Professor Kristan Wheaton teaches an Intelligence Communications course twice yearly, part of which includes a publication assignment. In Spring 2008, he assigned a dozen students to contribute new articles on topics he preapproved in the areas of intelligence reform, analytical techniques, etc. He plans to continue these assignments in the future, having found the experience effective in teaching online collaboration, publication, and research skills. See Professor Wheaton's blog for a list of the articles and his feedback on the assignment. --Pat (talk) 02:25, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Gloucester County College (Fall 2008 and ongoing)

Offered as an alternate information literacy assignment in the spring 2008 semester in Christine Herz's English Composition class, the assignment was to create a new article or revise an existing article. See the following page for a list of student projects: COM101 Wikipedia article.

SUNY New Paltz (Spring 2009) (Ongoing)

Students taking CMM 360 (Organizational Communication 1) will be expanding on the information contained on Wikipedia related to Organizational Communication. The goal of this project is to foster student learning about the core concepts related to organizational communication and how to present them to people in the general public. Questions to User:JasonSWrench (talk) December 28, 2008

Students in Professor Cyrus Mulready's ENG 301 (English Literature I) compile research on figures from British literary history and update stub pages on Wikipedia using their research. Project ongoing since Spring 2008. talk Redcknight (talk) 14:15, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Boston College Biology (fall 2009)

As a part of the BI481, Introduction to Neuroscience course at Boston College, students are assigned the task of writing several articles in Wikipedia pertaining to neuroscience. The Society for Neuroscience has recently begun an initiative to update and improve incomplete neuroscience related articles here on Wikipedia. You will play an important role in this initiative through this assignment.

There will be approximately 20 groups of 3 students each. Each student will have a separate Wikipedia account, and each group will propose, write, edit, and maintain a new article or significantly expand upon an existing incomplete article (stub). They will be expected to expand their article to the level as close to Featured Article as they can.

Supervisors: I, Joseph Burdo will take care of introducing students to Wikipedia and ensuring they and the project are working within the bounds of Wikipedia guidelines.

Important dates: The project will begin on Friday, September 18th, 2009, and end Monday, November 30th, 2009.

Course instructor User:NeuroJoe. Course page: Wikipedia:School and university projects/User:NeuroJoe/Fall 2009.

Union University (Fall 2009)

For the research project in my music history class, I have asked students to improve a Wikipedia article on a topic of their choosing from Antiquity through the Baroque era. These are the topics that have been chosen: J. S. Bach, Tallis, Purcell, Victoria, Dowland, Buxtehude, Frescobaldi, Florentine Camerata, Boethius, Madrigal, Council of Trent, Pope Gregory I, Palestrina, Vivaldi, Fugue, Handel, Josquin des Prez, Medieval Music: Genres; Theory and Notation, and Hildegard of Bingen. The students may not use their textbook or the New Grove Dictionary of Music as sources; this is to encourage them to move beyond these sources and take advantage of a wider variety of materials. The students have three categories of edits to work on. 1) Existing Wikipedia statements with citations -- check the statement against its cited source for accuracy; if accurate, leave it alone; if not, change it. 2) Existing Wikipedia statements without citations -- find corroborating evidence for these statements in your sources, and add citations. 3) New statements -- find facts in your sources that are not yet included in the article, and add them, along with proper citations. The students are to make at least 50 discrete edits, divided roughly evenly among these three categories. The due date for this project is December 3. The professor overseeing this project is Museprof (talk) 20:44, 28 November 2009 (UTC).

Yale University (Fall 2009) (Completed)

Students in Macromolecular Structure and Biophysical Analysis have been assigned the task of writing an article for Wikipedia. This effort is part of a long standing graduate and upper level undergraduate course taught by the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. The decision to include a wiki based class assignment reflects the growing use of Wikipedia as a resource. As all involved are novices, the efforts this year will be limited. 6 groups of 3 students each have been given the task writing a defined subsection of a new entry entitled RNA Tertiary Structure. The expectation is that the article will meet the highest standards for content, integration with existing RNA subtopics , and Wikipedia style.

Course instructors are Andrew Miranker, Anna Pyle, Don Engelman and Xiong Yong. Instructor in charge, and overseeing this assignment is User:MirankerAD