User:GSPwikiproject

This is the user page of a wikipedia project by students from Michigan's Global Scholars Program, a residential living-learning community of The University of Michigan.

It will be used to record the progress of the project and to teach ourselves how to work on wikipedia by editing our userpage and in order to create a User:GSPwikiproject/Global Scholars Program

Participants
''Add your name. We could also add a picture:''


 * John ist am Start!
 * Hye Seung Ryoo
 * Seungmin Lee
 * Imani
 * Lukas Garske

Project Description
Like we say in german: Please add your mustard till Sunday 3/14, so I can send it to Jennifer!

We will be working on a Wikipedia Group Project. Wikipedia is probably one of the most well know and used webpages. It's a free, multilanguage encyclopedia based on the concept of distributive authority, basically giving every user the right to improve it. The concept of distributive authority is at the heart of wikipedia and to ensure it works the creators have ensure that editing articles in wikipedia is easy and fast (wiki=fast), but still most people never do that!

Our project will start on the idea that everyone can help improve wikipedia and spread knowledge to people all over the world. While working on term papers, projects, essays for class we often use wikipedia for research and usually our research is more detailed than the content of wikipedia. Why not spend a few minutes updating the article on one's work?

Thus, with our project we will teach ourselves how to work on articles in wikipedia(and if we have time show others). We will select a couple of connected article edit them or maybe translate them. Ideally, in that process we can use our local (spatial and specific) knowledge to create wikipedia entries that can be accessed globally.

Possible topics
''List topics that come to your mind. We should decide what to work on next week by March 19th maybe. If we can't decide what, we can just everyone do whatever he likes, but it's easier to work on stuff together.''


 * National Anthems: There is already a lot of information on them.
 * The University of Michigan: updating information about U of M and possibly on the Korean and German websites.
 * Enhancing Academic Knowledge: Would maybe be the most useful project topic. Everyone picks a topic they know a lot about and edits a page related to it. It doesn't have to be tons of information and we could still work in teams of two or three.

Being realistic
''Five weeks, lots of confusing source code and so much school work? (and once you're hooked on editing wikipedia, it becomes almost as time consuming as facebook) We need to formulate our goals! For example, how much time can you and do you want to spend?''


 * John: Two hours a week?
 * Hye Seung Ryoo: Two hours a week sounds great.

How often and when should we meet?
We may post potential meeting times here.

How do you like it?
''Everyone please post a comment. Maybe using some sort of formating that's common on other wikipages.'' (You can always click on edit this page to see the source code of other pages or this page)
 * That's how you write cursive and that's how you bold in the reader's face! (John)

Useful Links

 * Formatting on wikipedia: