Wikipedia:School and university projects/2010 past projects


 * For university projects as part of the Public Policy Initiative, see WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Fall 2010

Simon Fraser University (Fall 2010)
In November and December 2010, nineteen students and one instructor in History 479 ("Change, Conflict and Resistance in Twentieth-Century China: Tiananmen Square") began contributing original content related to the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989. The project page is: School and university projects/SFU Tiananmen Square Project. Instructor is Oaxacanalia (talk)

School of Law, Singapore Management University: Constitutional and Administrative Law Wikipedia Project (January–April 2010)
This project is managed by Assistant Professor Jack Tsen-Ta Lee of the School of Law, Singapore Management University. Participants of the project are LL.B. students. They are required to collaborate with the members of the groups to which they have been assigned to prepare a Wikipedia article, or part of one, of not more than 2,500 words. The aims of the project are to encourage students to internalize the material covered in the course, as well as to contribute towards producing a body of accurate information about Singapore constitutional and administrative law that is freely available on the Internet. The project page is at User:Smuconlaw.

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City
Students in Advanced Business English will be working on business-related topics, preferably related to Mexico as well. I am looking for mentors for these students (27 in all), especially to help with understanding WP "culture" and wiki tasks such as wikifying and categorizing, which I probably will not have time to cover in class. English related issues like paragraph structure, tone and citation definitely will be covered, but any help here is appreciated because it is good for students to get "real world" feedback on their English communication skills. Students will be working in WP sporadically from August 2010 to the end of November-beginning of December 2010 and one of the options for a final project will be writing an article at least to B class (extra credit for Good status). Please contact me on my talk page if you can help!Thelmadatter (talk) 11:43, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

University of Manitoba Biology of Birds
As a part of the fourth-year Biology of Birds (BIOL 4216) course at the University of Manitoba, students are assigned the task of improving or creating selected bird species pages for which there currently is only a single section (or less). The full project page is found here.

Eighteen students (three groups of two) expanded the following pages: Cave Swallow, Common Nighthawk, Razorbill, Red-legged Cormornat, LeConte's Sparrow, Nuttall's Woodpecker, Black Sparrowhawk, Broad-winged Hawk, Northern Hawk-Owl, Common Ground-Dove, Finsch's pygmy parrot, Spot-breasted Ibis, Bicolored Hawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Blue-headed Vireo

Important dates: The project will end on October 14th, 2011.

Mid Sweden University course about wikis and Wikipedia (Fall 2009 and Summer 2010)
The worlds first university-level course solely devoted to wikis and Wikipedia was given by Mid Sweden University in cooperation with the Swedish local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation during fall 2009, and will also be offered during June-August 2010. The course Wikipedia - authoring, reliability and technology, 7.5 ECTS credit points, is an Internet based distance course within the subject of Informatics. See Press release August 30 2009 and English translation of the syllabus. The language of instruction is Swedish, but the course is open to anyone with a high school grade in a Nordic language. Responsible teacher is User:Mange01.

Duquesne University – Shaping the Modern World – Spring 2010
First year students enrolled in the Shaping the Modern World course, section 3, will examine how information is obtained and evaluated. They will write an article, substantially improve an existing stub or start-class article, probably but not necessarily related to a 20th century event. The project is open to involvement from other editors, although it is important to respect the students' need to obtain a grade for their work. Interested parties should contact Auntieruth. Auntieruth55 (talk) 22:49, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

The project page is found at School and university projects/Shaping the Modern World SP2010.

Auburn Montgomery – Freshman composition (Spring 2010)
Freshman composition students in Dr. Aaij's class will be asked to write an article, either from a stub or from a request. The resulting article is to be eligible for a Did You Know? nomination.

The project page is found at School and university projects/Dr. Aaij's Freshman comp. Dr Aaij (talk) 02:16, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

University of Illinois, Psychology (Spring 2010) (Ongoing)
Students in Kara Federmeier's Cognitive Psychophysiology course will be creating or editing pages covering major Event-related brain Potential (ERP) components used to study neural and cognitive functioning. Pages will include the morphological and functional characteristics of each component, describe some of their uses and contributions, and provide references to reputable scientific reviews. Questions to [mailto:kfederme@illinois.edu Dr. Federmeier].

University of Copenhagen Mesoamerica project
This project is managed by User:Maunus. Participants are BA students at the department for Native American Languages and Cultures and the course being taught is Mesoamerican Culture History 1B. Students have been assigned the task of improving wikipedias coverage on the topics of Mesoamerican religion, Mesoamerican calendar, Mixtec civilization, Zapotec civilization and Aztec civilization. Their forcus will be on providing sourced information and additional references to the main articles on these topics. The project will run till june 2010. The project page is at User:Maunus/MESO1b.·Maunus· ƛ · 13:21, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

School of Law, Singapore Management University: Constitutional and Administrative Law Wikipedia Project (ongoing; started January 2010)
This project is managed by Assistant Professor Jack Tsen-Ta Lee of the School of Law, Singapore Management University. Participants of the project are LL.B. and J.D. students. They are required to collaborate with the members of the groups to which they have been assigned to prepare a Wikipedia article or part of one. The aims of the project are to encourage students to internalize the material covered in the course, as well as to contribute towards producing a body of accurate information about Singapore constitutional and administrative law that is freely available on the Internet. The project page is at User:Smuconlaw.

Ehime University – Local Culture and the Internet – Spring 2010
Students will study how local cultures are represented and promoted on the Internet. Students will look at on the ways Matsuyama and Ehime local culture are represented in English-language web sites, with a particular focus on Wikipedia. Students will learn about the history of Wikipedia, the ideas behind it, and how to use it, and they will learn how to contribute to and create Wikipedia pages. The course is organized by user Icuc2. The project page is found at School and university projects/Local Culture and the Internet 2010.–Icuc2 (talk) 05:42, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

New York University – United States Immigration Policy – Spring 2010
Students will contribute articles related to United States immigration policy broadly defined. "U.S. Immigration Policy in Global Perspective" is an undergraduate public policy coursethat is a part of the Wagner School concentration. Students will learn how to edit and to create Wikipedia pages on subjects of their own choosing. This project is managed by User:tedperl.

Cal Poly Pomona – Musculoskeletal Injuries – Spring 2010
Students will add to articles related to musculoskeletal injuries in the following topics as chosen by them: Carpal tunnel syndrome, Achilles tendon rupture, Rotator cuff tear, Low back pain, and Anterior cruciate ligament injury. This project is supervised by Scholarchanter (talk) 23:46, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

University of Padua, Padua, Italy – Educational Technology, E-learning, Information Literacy – 2009 (ongoing)
The students in the Educational Technology classes create and modify articles in the Italian Wikipedia about on-line tutoring [] and other topics related to e-learning and Web 2.0. They learn to use Wikipedia as contributors improving their digital competences on selecting and evaluating reliability of informations. The project is managed by professor Corrado Petrucco of the Departement of Education User:conradpd.

Gustavus Adolphus College – Plant Physiology, Entomology – Fall 2010
Students in two different upper-level classes, Plant Physiology and Entomology, are engaged in technical literacy projects using Wikis. In Entomology, students compose a section that they will contribute to an existing Wikipedia article on female sperm storage. Students are provided with a list of possible subtopics and selected references to help them get started. In Plant Physiology, students select a topic that is either non-existent on Wikipedia or one that requires additional information and expansion. Students in both classes will strengthen skills at distinguishing the presentation of information from interpretation, developing and editing Wiki text, and communicating biological content to a lay audience in an engaging manner. Previous unsigned comment added by FlyPusher (talk) at 14:51, 26 August 2010.

Nanyang Technological University – Language, Technology and the Internet – Spring 2012; Autumn 2010
Students in HG252 Language, Technology and the Internet will create or enhance pages relevant to language and technology. They learn: how to use Wikipedia as contributors, thus improving their knowledge of a subject; skills in presenting information; and an understanding of the reliability of online knowledge. The resulting article should aim to be eligible for a Good Article Nomination. The project is led by Francis Bond from the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies. Francis Bond (talk) 14:59, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

University of British Columbia - Food, Nutrition and Health (FNH) 490 - Fall 2010
Students in Food, Food, Nutrition & Health 490 are creating or substantially improving pages relevant to a variety of topics in food, nutrition and health. Course instructor: drbethsnow (talk)

University of Texas at Austin - Rocks and Minerals (GEO) 416K - Fall 2010
Students are working towards creating a Wikipedia entry for an unusual mineral, for one which Wikipedia has no entry. The entry is developed throughout the semester as different topics regarding mineral properties are discussed. The project is led by Elizabeth Catlos from the Jackson School of Geosciences.

University of Pittsburgh - Freshmen Seminar: In the City composition course - Oct/Nov 2010
The goal of the assignment is for each group of students to chose an underdeveloped or missing article on Wikipedia, related to Pittsburgh, and improve it during the second half of the semester.

The project page can be found here User:Llh19/pittsburghcityseminar Instructor: User:Llh19

Georgetown Day High School - Global Studies Project - November 2010
A small Assignment aiming to teach one section of 9th graders about the importance of reliable sources and verification by discussing and possibly editing a Wikipedia article on new imperialism. Instructor: Evelyn Schwartz

Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy- Modern Jewish History classes, 12th Grade - Nov-Dec, 2010
The students in the Jewish History class are attempting to further their knowledge of Jewish artifacts and to increase the database of Jewish history on Wikipedia. The students will collaborate to create Wikipedia articles about Jewish history. An essential part of the midterm project is that students will be given the opportunity to edit each others articles.

University of Pittsburgh - Global Societies - Summer 2010
The most recent incarnation of a course I am teaching (see previous editions). Details available at Wikipedia:School and university projects/User:Piotrus/Summer 2010. Class will start on May 10 and end around mid/late June 2010. –Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 21:57, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

University of Maryland - History of Technology - Fall 2010

 * See also: School and university projects/University of Maryland

Students in an upper division undergraduate course in the history of technology are required to first critique an existing Wikipedia article on a relevant topic in the history of technology and to share that critique with other students. They must then each draft a substantial revision or addition to an existing article or a new article. This is then reviewed by fellow students and posted to Wikipedia for community reaction and response. This is a repeat of a similar assignment used in the Fall 2009 offering of the same course. The project has been designed and is supervised by the course instructor, Professor Robert Friedel of the Department of History.

Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis - Museum Studies (Fall 2010)
See Fall 2009 for more information.

This project is continuing again for Fall 2010.

As part of the IUPUI Museum Studies collection care and management course FA09-IN-MSTD-A416/A516-18435, students have been given a set of class class assignments that walk them through the basics of Wikipedia and then guide them through the documentation of 42 individual artworks at the Indiana Statehouse.

The graduate students in the class have a leadership roles that are mean to allow each student to take a significant role in making sure the project comes together as a whole.

The final project is the creation of the Indiana Statehouse Public Art Collection.

Polytechnic of Namibia, Windhoek – Information Competence (2010-2012)
First-year students used their sandboxes to either create or improve an article about Southern Africa. Main module objectives were: Acquiring the syntax capabilities to edit Wikipedia, evaluating the reliability of sources, mini-research on a local topic. We restricted students to obviously notable concepts (geography, historic events, political office holders, requested articles). Acceptable work ("pass") was incorporated in main space after the respective course has ended.

This project is temporarily suspended and will not run in 2013. The reason is that we could not manage the fast growth of this course, and the implications this had for the Wikipedia community. The evaluation of the 2012 student work is still backlogged, you can help us if you have some time to spare. --Pgallert (talk) 17:51, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Simon Fraser University, 2010, 2014
History 479 ("Change, Conflict and Resistance in Twentieth-Century China: Tiananmen Square") first contributed original content related to the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 in Fall 2010. The class is being offered for a second time in Spring 2014; 20 students have been uploading new content in March and April 2014. The project page is: School and university projects/SFU Tiananmen Square Project. Instructor is Oaxacanalia (talk).