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Suggestions from Jami

I'm not sure how many reviews this text has already gone through, so I don't want to make my suggested changes directly to it and mess up your hard work. Here are some suggestions that you can incorporate or not.

Choosing a Wikipedia assignment

You can teach with Wikipedia in several different ways, and it's important to design an assignment that fits on Wikipedia and achieves your student learning objectives. Your first step is to choose which assignment(s) you'll be asking your students to complete as part of the course. We've created some guidelines to help you, but you'll need to make some key decisions, such as: which learning objectives are you targeting with this assignment? What skills do your students already have? How much time can you devote to the assignment?

Most instructors ask their students to write an article. Students start by learning the basics of Wikipedia, and then they focus on the content. They plan, research, write, and revise a previously missing Wikipedia article or an existing course-related topic that is incomplete. This assignment typically replaces a term paper or research project, or it forms the literature review section of a larger paper. The student learning outcome is high with this assignment, but it does take a significant amount of time. To learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, your students need to learn both the wiki markup language and key policies and expectations of the Wikipedia-editing community.

If writing an article isn't right for your class, other assignment options still give students valuable learning opportunities as they improve Wikipedia. Click on an assignment type to the left to learn more about each assignment.

Find and fix errors

Are we sure this is minimum 6 weeks? This seems like a smaller assignment that could be 4 weeks for sure, which is helpful as an alternative for instructors who want to teach with Wikipedia but only have a short amount of time. Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:31, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. It's easily 4 weeks, maybe 3 or 2.--Sage (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:33, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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