Wikipedia:School and university projects/2012 past projects

The College of Idaho (Winter Session 2012)
Students in Professor Steven S. Maughan's history course, The Terror: Language, Radicalism, and Violence in the French Revolution, 1789-1799, will work to critique and improve biographical entries on notable French Revolutionary figures. Each will create her or his own Wikipedia login ID, will become familiar with wikipedia as a community and as a knowledge resource, and will refine and expand a biographical entry drawing on high-quality scholarly sources. This is a repeat of an assignment originally set in 2010.

The assignments, based on templates provided for past Wikipedia course projects, will be completed by the end of Jan. 2012.


 * HIS 303: Wiki Biography Assignment

Towson University: School and University Projects/Towson University American Editors Project 2012
The Wikipedia Editing Project begun last year in ENGL416, an upper-division editing course in the English Department, continued this semester with a team of graduate professional writing students as managing editors. While the 2011 project focussed on articles about American editors, the 2012 project allowed students to choose articles based on personal or academic interest. This seemed to result in richer and more motivated secondary research, as well as better discussion among student editors and other Wikipedians.

University of Houston - Molecular Evolution - Spring, 2012
As a part of Biol4366/6366 Molecular Evolution course at University of Houston, honors students and graduate students will be assigned the task of writing or improving selected molecular evolution and genome evolution entries. Each student will have a separate Wikipedia account, and each student will write a completely new article and/or significantly expanding and updating upon an existing article. Dr. Dan Graur will supervise the project. This pilot project will initially run in March and April 2012. Dr. Graur

East Carolina University - Emergency Management Planning Wikipedia Project - Spring 2012
This project is part of the Emergency Management Planning course offered by the Department of Geography, East Carolina University. The class is a mix of advanced undergraduates and a few graduate students, who will work collaboratively in groups of four to write on a topic of their choosing in the field of Emergency Management. The objective of this assignment is to develop students' critical thinking abilities and their knowledge of Emergency Management while at the same time improve their skills in writing and research through contributions to Wikipedia. The project is managed by Dr. Mukherji, Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning. The project page is at User:Emplanning.

University of Houston - Futures Studies - Spring, 2012
The University of Houston System was the first university to offer a full-degree in Futures Studies (http://houstonfutures.org), first at UH-Clear Lake and now at the University of Houston (http://tech.uh.edu/futures). Students in that program complete the coursework for their degree with a Proseminar in Futures Studies in which they prepare for a transition to professional life by reviewing the field. Students in that course will work with Dr. Peter Bishop, Director of the program, and Wikipedians to review and suggest updates to Wikipedia on topics relevant to the field, such as future studies, strategic foresight, scenario planning and strategic planning. Specifically, this effort will be taken in conjunction with a proposed Foresight and Futures Studies Project for coordinating this and other efforts in the ongoing improvement of foresight content on Wikipedia.

The class itself will be coordinated on its own project page.

Concordia University (Quebec) - Justice and Social Conflict - Spring, 2012
This project is designed for students in the Concordia University (Montreal) Religion Department course RELI312-Justice and Social Conflict (http://religion.concordia.ca/) to create new content pages which profile current social justice organizations working on a range of justice and social conflict issues. The students will work together to edit each others profiles. At the end of the semester, after getting feedback from fellow students, the professor and members of the wikipedia community, profiles deemed "good article" will be moved to the main wikipedia space.

University of Guelph - Memory (Winter 2012)
Groups of undergraduate students from the Department of Psycholog's Winter 2012 course on Memory are required to create a course-relevant entry or improve one in need of substantial improvement. This annual project has resulted in 58 new and revised entries since April 2009.

Princeton University (Winter 2012)
For their final project, groups of students in the course Between Heaven and Hell: Myths and Memories of Siberia taught by Serguei Oushakine will be creating or expanding Wikipedia articles relating to Siberia. The project page can be found at School_and_university_projects/Myths_and_Memories_of_Siberia.

Biola University Cognitive Psychology (Spring 2012)
In response to the APS initiative to use Wikipedia in the classroom more often, this introductory psychology course will give students the chance to edit articles related to cognitive psychology.

Pomona College Introduction to American Politics (Spring 2012)
Students will be editing articles related to American Politics. You can find the timeline and course description here.

Imperial College London Science Communication for Life Sciences (Spring 2012)
Students will be editing articles on a variety of biological and biochemical topics for a final-year module in Science Communication. User:Polypompholyx

University of Chicago Being Christian in the Roman Empire (Spring 2012)
"Being Christian in the Roman Empire" is a thematic introduction to early Christian literature for undergraduates in The College of the University of Chicago. Students will assess Wikipedia content related to the course, evaluating it not only as source of information but also as a site of robust public discourse on the New Testament and other early Christian texts. Through a series of assignments, each student will engage Wikipedia as both a critic and a contributor, culminating in the authorship of new articles or substantive revisions of existing contributions.

Central College (Iowa) Psychology of Religion (Spring 2012)
Students have the option to either write a traditional research paper for a final project or write a Wikipedia article on a specific psychology of religion topic that is nonexistent or underdeveloped. The course page can be found here.

John Bapst Memorial High School Advanced Placement Biology (Spring 2012)
As their final project students will create an image for a Wikipedia article about biology. The course page can be found here.

Traumatic Memories and Repression (Spring 2012)
Students at the Victoria University of Wellington are working with WikiProject Psychology to add content to existing psychology articles.

USEP/Courses/Behavioral_Ecology_(Joan_Strassmann) (Spring 2012)
Washington University students will be revising and creating articles related to Behavioral Ecology including both concepts and animals. This is semester long course, and the first time being taught in a Wikipedia based format. Gsibbel 16:40, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

Erasmus MC Minor Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery (autumn 2012)
This assignment is part of a ten week minor for third year medical students. The minor is primarily organized by the department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery but is in collaboration with many related medical fields. Couples of two students select a topic from a list created by staff surgeons and researcher from the departments. The assignment is to make a new entry or add specific content to an existing page. Topics are generally relatively rare medical conditions or specialized interventions. During the course, students receive information about, amongst others, Wikipedia, medical writing, referencing and 'levels of evidence'. Each group is supervised by the staff surgeon or researcher who suggested the topic and who is an expert in that specific area. The entries are first developed on the Wiki tool in BlackBoard. Only when the supervisor and the course instructor find the content of sufficient quality, it will be transferred to Wikipedia. There will be approximately 12 groups of 2 students each. Each student will have a separate Wikipedia account.

Supervisors: I, Ruud Selles will supervise the course.

Important dates: The project will begin in September and in Oktober 2012.

University_of_Mississippi Writing 101 Bob Cummings (Fall 2012)
Students will work collaboratively to edit film pages within the guidelines of WikiProject Film from 15 October 2012 until 5 November 2012. Contributions to Wikipedia will not need to "stick" to be part of a student's grade, and all edits will be proposed on talk pages in advance of saving changes. Please feel free to contact http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:BobCummings with any questions or concerns. --Bob Cummings (talk) 17:10, 15 October 2012 (UTC) This project has concluded.--Bob Cummings (talk) 17:59, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

University of Illinois Chemistry React UIUC (Fall 2012)
Sophomore Chemistry students are working in groups to create wikipedia articles to increase accessibility of chemical information to the general public. Each group of students is making two to four articles on chemicals of notability currently lacking articles.

Ohio University Professional Writing Garrison Gondek (Fall 2012)
As part of a junior- and senior-level writing course, Ohio University students are creating Wikipedia articles on the topics of their choice, most of which were chosen from the list of Most wanted articles. A list of student topics will soon be available on ggondek's page. This project will end on November 8, 2012.

New College of Florida (Fall 2012)
Students in Maribeth Clark's Seminar in Critical Inquiry, Music and the Environment, will create an entry on listening and improve the entry on whistling. Each will create her or his own Wikipedia login ID, will become familiar with Wikipedia as a community and a resource, and will refine and expand these two articles.--Maribeth Clark (talk) 00:38, 5 November 2012 (UTC)Maribeth Clark

California State University San Bernardino - Poetry and Disability - Winter, 2012
This project is designed for students in the Cal State San Bernardino English Department course on Poetry and Disability to create new content pages which profile current North American poets with disabilities. The students will work together to create and edit the poets' profiles. At the end of the quarter, after getting feedback from fellow students, the professor, and members of the Wikipedia community, profiles deemed "good article" will be moved to the main Wikipedia space.

Chapman University - Jews in Western Europe (Fall 2012)
Students add and fix up Wikipedia articles related to the history of Jews in Western Europe from Napoleonic times until post World War II. Visit the course page at: USEP/Courses/Jews in Western Europe (Shira Klein).

Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon Gender in Asia (Spring 2012)
Students in this 200-level undergraduate course taught by Tami Blumenfield created keywords, taking inspiration from keyword projects including Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Shock and Awe: War on Words, and Raymond Williams' Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. They are now pairing up to edit or create Wikipedia pages that draw on their keyword experiences and relate to Gender in Asia.

Saint Louis University Biology (Winter 2012)
As a part of Biology 561, Graduate level Developmental Biology and Biology 460H Honors undergraduate Developmental Biology at Saint Louis University, students are assigned the task of improving articles related to the course topic. Five topics selected by individuals or groups of up to 3 students will be addressed.

Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis - Museum Studies (Fall 2012)
See Fall 2009 for more information.

A survey and research course is working to document a collection of artifacts and artworks at the Madame Walker Theatre Center. As part of this project, students will be working to document the collection and share their findings. More info on MWTC's Blog.

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)