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)
University of Lethbridge (Spring 2009) (Ongoing)
Senior Neuroscience students in Dr. Deborah Saucier's NEUR 4850 (Neuropsychopharmacology) course will revise stubs in the area of drugs and behaviour. Students will have to expand the stub to ensure that it answers questions related to the neural target of the drug, its method of action and basic pharmacology. References to basic research will be provided. Questions to Dr. Saucier
User:dsau001 (talk) 8 January 2009
McGill University (Winter 2009) (Ongoing)
Masters' level students will revise and expand the article Augmentative and alternative communication. The project page can be found here Wikipedia:School and university projects/AAC --Poule (talk) 14:15, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
University of Toronto (Winter 2009) (Ongoing)
The students in EEB 356 at the University of Toronto are updating and improving sixteen wiki pages that deal with home and garden insects. This project will be conducted between January 22 and February 12, 2009. The professor says they will be monitoring their progress and a grade will be assigned based on the quality of the final entries and the contributions of each of the group members. They note that the students are only working on entries that seem in need of improvement. The professor is registered on Wikipedia as EEB356Prof (talk · contribs) Details added by §hep at 04:35, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
University of Sussex (January-February 2009) (Ongoing)
Undergraduate level students on the Molecular Medicine degree programme in the Common Medical Problems course will add to stubs associated with human cardiovascular medicine and physiology. Relleh22hctac (talk) 00:29, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia (Summer 2009)
An assignment will be created by Teresa Coffman, Associate Professor of Education at UMW. Graduate students taking an Instructional Design and Technology course will revise an existing topic on Wikipedia as it relates to educational technology. Feel free to contact Professor Coffman in Talk if you have suggestions and advice, we are very new to this process. --Teresacoffman (talk) 21:55, 17 April 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).
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL Worldwide (Ongoing)
Students taking MGMT 412 (Airport Planning and Design), starting in the fall of 2009 will expand on the information contained on Wikipedia related to Airports, how new and existing facilities are planned and designed considering both United States Federal Aviation Administration and International International Civil Aviation Organization protocols. Students are required to create a course-relevant topic that did not exist or improve one in need of substantial improvement. The goal of this project is to foster student learning about the core concepts related to airport planning and design, develop an ongoing source of information for future classes, and how to present them to laypeople.
Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America. Arabic 301 (Fall 2009) (Ongoing)
Advanced Arabic students will translate the Rice University article into Arabic. --Aobjectpoet (talk) 19:17, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Portland State University computer Science (fall 2009)
CS 345 (Cyberculture: The Internet and Popular Culture) Several groups, 2-4 students each, will create a Wikipedia article of at least 750 new words with the goal of obtaining Did You Know status. The course will last from late September to early December. Course instructor User:Lenshapir. Course page: Wikipedia:School and university projects/CS345.
Earlham College Advanced Cell Physiology (fall, 2009)
Students in the Advanced Cell Physiology course at Earlham College will be editing pages relating to the cell cycle and its control as part of their course assignments. There are six students, each of whom will expand an existing article (stub). The expectation is that students will bring their article to the Good Article standard.
Dates: Students will begin their work October 1 and will complete their work by December 15, 2009.
Course Instructor User:Digbymom.
University of British Columbia (Fall 2009)
Undergraduate students in FNH 490 (Topics in Food, Nutrition & Health) are creating or improving articles in Wikipedia related to a variety of topics in nutrition. Students will be working in groups of 4 or 5 on a topic of their choosing. The course runs from Sept to Dec 2009. Course instructor: User:Drbethsnow.
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
Skidmore College (Fall 2009)
Students in a seminar on Classical and Romantic Music have been editing and in some cases creating Wikipedia pages. Students chose a musical work and were the responsible for working on up to three related articles: the work, the genre of the work, and the composer of the work. Through initial bibliographic searching, students generated a bibliography that concentrated on recent, relevant, and authoritative sources. Students used this to edit the bibliographic sections of the Wikipedia articles, hoping to improve the bibliographic foundation for readers and for others making future edits. Research in these sources was followed by assessment and critique of the Wikipedia articles. Issues such as organization, the need for (expanded) coverage of some aspect of the life or works of the composer, of the genre or of the work, factual inaccuracies, and improved citations were all raised as possible edits. Each student presented a broad plan for their editing work. Students drafted their edits off-line before actually editing. Students were instructed to leave a 'summary of edits' and to discuss their rationales on the Talk pages. Works researched in the project were: Mozart, Don Giovanni; Haydn, Nelson Mass; Sor, Variations on a Theme by Mozart; Rossini, Barber of Seville; Chopin mazurkas; Chopin nocturnes; Liszt, Sonata in B Minor; Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake; Dvorak Serenade; Rimsky-Korsakov, Sheherazade; Debussy, Preludes; Debussy, Suite Bergamasque. The project ran from November 1 through December 15, 2009. Responsible teacher: User:Jonesville05.
New Bulgarian University (Fall 2009)
After the special prize for contributions to Bulgarian webspace, awarded to Bulgarian Wikipedia, the BG Site competition founder, Mrs Justine Toms, adopted the idea to encourage her students in New Bulgarian University to contribute to Bulgarian Wikipedia with articles in the field of online media, public relations and communication. On November 30, a short lecture was given to the students and potential wikipedians, and the page of the WikiProject "Online media and PR" was launched on December 4. Participation in the project is voluntary, and those students who get involved are asked to create or significantly improve at least three articles in the field until January 15, 2010. Two experienced Wikipedians and BG WP sysops, Spiritia and SilentShout, will support and mentor the project participants.
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (Spring 2009) (Ongoing)
Master of Library Science students in Dr. Judith Robinson’s LIS 518 Reference Sources and Services course will revise stubs in the category Library and Information Science using reference sources introduced in the course. Questions to Dr. Robinson
Lisrobin (talk) 16:58, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
University of Pittsburgh sociology (fall 2009)
SOC 0317 (Global Socities) will have several groups, 5 student each, improving an article on Wikipedia related to sociology of the family, with the end goal of nominating it for a Good Article status. The course will last from late early September to late December. Course page: Wikipedia:School and university projects/User:Piotrus/Fall 2009. Course instructor: User:Piotrus. Results will be reported in December.
University of Birmingham UK (Autumn 2009) (Ongoing)
Students in the Department of French Studies' Translation Circle are expanding the Lisieux page by translating the corresponding French page. This is an extra-curricular activity, but if successful the project will be expanded. Project leader: User:Tyleree
Rhode Island College (Fall 2009) (Ongoing)
In Fall 2009, students in Professor [Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur's] Comparative Law and Justice (Sociology/Anthropology/Justice Studies) began creating a Wiki resource on comparative legal systems. Each student is responsible for collecting information from disparate sources on a single country over the course of the semester. If successful, this project will be continued in future semesters. The Fall 2009 course runs from August-December 2009. Course Instructor: User:Mlarthur. Course Page: Comparative_law_and_justice.