User talk:Fuzheado/Archive1
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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149
I for one am glad you brought your class here, they've added a lot of valuable content. A little bit of cleaning up English is a small price to pay for information that I for one have no idea about.
I noticed the images too, also very nice, I assume most of these were taken by the class with digital cameras. It might be a good idea to have a look at our copyright policy though, it would be better if they made an explicit release of the image material under the GNU FDL.
Thanks again! Hope you and your class have a great time here. - Hephaestos 05:41 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I too always like to see schools and unis picking up Wikipedia. Could you do us a favor and describe in a little more detail what you are doing and how on the newly created Wikipedia:School and university projects page? Thanks! --Eloquence 05:52 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Same here, is any arrangement needed? kt2 05:57 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I think what you're doing is great. To have a large number of keen, intelligent contributors suddenly writing interesting material about Hong Kong was a pleasant surprise. I just have one request: I was a bit confused at first, I didn't know where they were all coming from or what they were doing. In the future, do you think you could ask them to fill out their user pages? Just something like "I'm a University of Hong Kong student doing a project on Wikipedia," and maybe a link to Wikipedia:School and university projects. I just want to avoid confusing all the other Wikipedia contributors, that's all. -- Tim Starling 06:07 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for the warm welcomes. I've posted information on the class to the new topic Wikipedia:School and university projects. And yes, I'll tell them to put something in their user pages to identify themselves.
BTW, to folks who have posted or queried here, I seek your advice. I'd like to do a survey of the students after the exercise is over. I want them to evaluate the experience. None of them had used a Wiki before, and to many the concept was completely foreign. So I'd like to somehow capture the "buzz" and reflections afterwards. So if you could pose some interesting questions for them to answer, I would apprecaite it. The best ones are quantifiable choice questions (ie. on a scale from 1-10, true/false).
Some I had in mind already, but please add, and we can put a recommended list to educators on the Wikipedia:School and university projects page.
How useful did you find the project?
Did you ever run into an editing conflict?
How did you resolve it?
What parts of the interface were hard to use?
Some ideas:
- I found the editing syntax difficult to use. [1 (very false).. 10 (very true]
- I found the website design appealing.
- I found the experience as a whole confusing.
- Exploring Wikipedia was an enjoyable experience.
- Which aspects in particular?
- I did have many social interactions on the site.
- Sexual or offensive content should be censored by editors.
- The social interactions I had were pleasant.
- I think Wikipedia is already a serious work of reference.
- I learned something new from Wikipedia.
- Wikipedia shows that humans can work together online in large groups, even without being paid to do so.
- I think that maintaining a neutral point of view will be impossible.
- Wikipedia will eventually replace all other encyclopedias.
- I will use Wikipedia again, as a reader.
- I will use Wikipedia again, as an author.
- I think wikis should be used for other purposes beyond creating an encyclopedia.
- Which ones?
- Wikipedia needs more centralized control.
Note that you could derive some interesting correlations from these questions. Are the pro-control types more inclined to believe that the principle doesn't work? Are those who found the design unappealing less inclined to come back? --Eloquence 07:02 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
More ideas:
- Working on Wikipedia has improved my English language skills.
- I felt comfortable working collaboratively with native English speakers.
- The information is Wikipedia is unreliable.
- The Wikipedians I encountered were helpful.
- I found it frustrating when others edited my work.
I'm pleased that you're using Wikipedia in your class, and I hope to see more experiments like this. -- Stephen Gilbert 15:32 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)