Comments on: Class Edits Wikipedia: How Not to Win New Editors http://www.ayman-naaman.net/2009/04/13/class-edits-wikipedia/ Social Media is Made of People! Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:51:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: naaman http://www.ayman-naaman.net/2009/04/13/class-edits-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-458 naaman Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:43:29 +0000 http://www.ayman-naaman.net/?p=256#comment-458 Hon - that's nice integration - and a good start - but the statistics are not personalized, not up to date, and not presented prominently enough. I, for one, knew about http://stats.grok.se but never noticed the link on the History page. Hon – that’s nice integration – and a good start – but the statistics are not personalized, not up to date, and not presented prominently enough. I, for one, knew about http://stats.grok.se but never noticed the link on the History page.

]]> By: Hon http://www.ayman-naaman.net/2009/04/13/class-edits-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-448 Hon Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:51:00 +0000 http://www.ayman-naaman.net/?p=256#comment-448 As a matter of fact, they can get pretty good view statistics of articles per day from the history tag on each page: http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers As a matter of fact, they can get pretty good view statistics of articles per day from the history tag on each page:
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers

]]> By: ChaTo http://www.ayman-naaman.net/2009/04/13/class-edits-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-441 ChaTo Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:28:40 +0000 http://www.ayman-naaman.net/?p=256#comment-441 Interesting assignment. I think the main takeaway message for students is to understand the process of peer production. It would be nice to ask them also to look at the "Talk:" pages before editing. * * * Some of your students were bitten by Wikipedia editors. This is against a clear Wikipedia guideline: "Please do not bite newcomers" explained in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_bite_the_newcomer Wikipedia in general welcome newcomers. There are even a series of standard messages to greet them, even when they make mistakes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Welcome_templates All the best, -- ChaTo Interesting assignment. I think the main takeaway message for students is to understand the process of peer production. It would be nice to ask them also to look at the “Talk:” pages before editing.

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Some of your students were bitten by Wikipedia editors. This is against a clear Wikipedia guideline: “Please do not bite newcomers” explained in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_bite_the_newcomer

Wikipedia in general welcome newcomers. There are even a series of standard messages to greet them, even when they make mistakes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Welcome_templates

All the best,

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ChaTo

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