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This Wikipedia assignment involves choosing a stub article (possibly new topic) relevant to the history of psychology and expanding (or creating) it. I generate a list of psychology stubs, but also give students the option of choosing a topic from their textbook. Students create Wikipedia accounts and user pages, get trained as editors, and critique articles that my class from the previous semester worked on. Students work in groups of 2 or 3 persons, examine existing articles, outline additions/changes, find new references, and expand their articles. They should also link to and from existing articles. Virtually any psychology article on Wikipedia is relevant to the history of psychology, so they can work on a wide range of articles. I have found that the ones that tend to go best are biographies of important psychologists. Students have also expanded articles on theory and major research topics.

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