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Editing Wikipedia

Editing Wikipedia. …as coursework on Science Communication , a final year course in Life Sciences. Science Communication is a final year course in Life Sciences. For students submitting literature project rather than lab/field project 'Skills coursework ' Video Podcasting Blogging

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Editing Wikipedia

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  1. Editing Wikipedia …as coursework on Science Communication, a final year course in Life Sciences All text and images are copylefted under a CC-BY-SA-3.0 license by Steve Cook (s.cook@imperial.ac.uk) unless otherwise indicated

  2. Science Communication is a final year course in Life Sciences • For students submitting literature project rather than lab/field project • 'Skills coursework' • Video • Podcasting • Blogging • Wikipedia "I actually really enjoyed the (Wiki) skills coursework. I really liked the fact we could talk about whatever we wanted and that this gave me the opportunity to write about something that I believe to be really important and somewhat neglected"

  3. Replicate the page below Workflow for Wikipedia coursework Bold Subscripts Internal link to "Wood preservation" [Leader] • Workshops • Wiki syntax • WP ethos, 5P, CC-BY-SA • Students select • This coursework • Proposed page • … 2 weeks pass … • Drop-in help sessions by appointment • Submit page • WP-ness graded by me • Content graded by expert ["Contents" is added automagically] Heading Image link to "Pentachlorophenol-structure.png" Italics Internal link (no article) Subheading HTML entity right-arrows Heading Heading "References" formatted automagically, but you need to create the reference in the body-text Bullets External link tohttp://water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants/basicinformation/pentachlorophenol.cfm

  4. Improved (hopefully!) pages*definitely 2012 2013 Active site Ancylostomacaninum Bacterial display Banana Xanthomonas wilt Carnassial Chromothripsis Cicindeladorsalis Gas exchange Equine encephalosis virus Galectin Glis1 Key innovation LGR5 Lutzomyia Mokola virus Photorhabdus Progeroid syndromes* SIGLEC* TIGAR Xenoma • Acrogeria • Canarypox • Cre recombinase • Density dependence • FDC-SP • Granule cell • Grb2 • Human parainfluenza viruses • Hypnogram • Metriopteraroeselii • Natural killer cell • Parasitic nutrition • Phymatopus • Pyocyanine • Pyroptosis • Rufous Fantail* • Trophic egg • Ugandan red colobus* SIGLEC CC-BY-SA-3.0 Minimuns (Sam Munday) Ugandan red colobus CC-BY-3.0 Perspectionhickmott (Anthony Dancer) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Polypompholyx

  5. Things to consider Pros Cons 'For profit' rather than 'for fun' Registering accounts, clocking up edits Artificially restricted choice (quiet stubs) Plagiarism detection Quantity of contribution Single large submission rather than collaborative editing Significant technical overhead for staff • New pages on important or niche topics • Only 5% of students have ever edited before, perhaps some will again • Hardly any of them know what mark-up is either • Encourage community contribution

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