Wikipedia:School and university projects/NNU Class Project/Winter 2012

'''This project is complete. It ran from about February 1, 2012 to June 18, 2012.''' Anna Frodesiak (talk) 07:28, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

This project page is for Nanjing Normal University's Class Project - Winter 2012

Please feel free to modify this page.

Schedule of events
Please rough-in events that we need to do, such as prep welcome template, post the template, etc.


 * Feb 19 and Feb 21: Josh (instructor) will teach the students basic editing, etc.
 * Feb 26: Deadline for students to be registered and signed up for topics.
 * April: Ongoing editing, feedback, expansion. Comments and suggestions on draft articles. Articles that are ready are moved to mainspace.
 * April 15: Deadline for translation articles to find references.
 * From April 30: Remaining articles "submitted" automatically to helpers. Helpers begin to cut and edit directly, instead of only making suggestions.
 * May 30: goal for all articles to be "finished" and on mainspace.

Description
The aim of this project is to assemble and provide quality control to 40 to 50 articles to be created by small teams of NNU students.

Students will be assigned topics by the course instructor. The students' only role will be to add referenced content to assigned subpages here, under the guidance of their instructor.

Helpers can choose tasks, such as formatting, checking for copyvios, adding categories, etc., and help make the articles ready for the mainspace.

Management of these tasks will be done at the Article management subpage.

Unlike last term, there will be separation between the students and helpers. They are not here to be Wikipedians, but just to learn how to write content.

(The project for last term was run very differently. There was no preparation at all because we didn't know that they were coming. They simply arrived en masse. We put things together in a hurry, there was no division of tasks for the helpers, and the students struggled with topic selection, wiki markup, etc.)

Editors willing to help
Students: To contact a helper, please click "talk" beside that person's name:


 * 1) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:06, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 2) Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:48, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 3) wctaiwan (talk) 07:16, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 4) bobrayner (talk) 13:15, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 5) Dave1185 (talk) 13:15, 29 January 2012 (UTC) (PS: I'm conversant in both English language and Standard Chinese.)
 * 6) Antandrus (talk) 15:38, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 7) Philosopher Let us reason together. 19:54, 29 January 2012 (UTC) If anyone has a question about Images or, leave me a note!
 * 8) My76Strat (talk) 03:19, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 9) L.tak (talk) 15:30, 30 January 2012 (UTC) Why not; eager to see if we can find a good form for these students and further diversiy wikipedia!
 * 10) Ganeshk (talk) 00:58, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 11) Pete (talk) 13:35, 4 February 2012 (UTC). Always here to help. I can read a little Chinese.
 * 12) →  Σ  τ  c . 05:44, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 13) Puffin (talk) 11:30, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * 14)  Makecat  Talk  09:22, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Article management

 * Article management
 * Article components
 * Recent changes linked to course sub-page

Lists

 * Raw list of draft articles and student names, and other lists (to add to watchlist)
 * Student list with links to articles
 * Topic list
 * Contributions of student participants only

Other

 * Centralised help desk
 * Universal banner
 * Welcome letter and template
 * Article template

Here are some key points in the plan for this project, from an IRC discussion:


 * KISS is the order of the day.
 * Previous concerns expressed by the students from the last project were:
 * Articles got deleted
 * References were tricky
 * Adding images was too tricky
 * They spent too much time trying to figure things out, and not enough time writing.
 * They found the course to be more about translating, and not enough about writing.


 * We will design things so that the students only need to worry about writing and sourcing. No formatting.
 * There will be around 140 students taking part.
 * Students will work in groups of 3 to 4.
 * We will create accounts for them. Josh (instructor) will give them each a password.
 * Together, we will all prepare a list of around 40 topics from which the students can choose. This will prevent GNG issues.
 * The 40 topics will prepared as subpages of this class project, not at AfC, and not as userpage sandboxes.
 * The 40 topic subpages will be prepared with a simple XXX is a... example, and a reflist at the bottom. The students will use that as a template.
 * Josh will provide a timeline soon.
 * Josh will prepare simple instructions and dos and don'ts for the students.
 * Students will have deadlines to expand the articles, measured in number of facts stated.
 * Helpers will help based on this model. See "Article management" below in Subpages section.
 * When articles are completed by students, and checked by helpers, they will be moved to the mainspace.

That's all I can think of now. I will check the log to see what's missing. Please feel free to add points. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:44, 29 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Nominate appropriate articles for WP:DYK.
 * Articles will be in English.

Followup
After project completion:


 * Add items to "List of..." ✅
 * Reflinks ✅
 * Check for stray double redirects and subpages ✅
 * Swap in alt banners ✅
 * Closing remarks/dates/status at this main page ✅
 * Hand out barnstars to worthy folks ✅
 * Block Josh (kidding) ✅
 * Notes/service awards/stars to good students - will get to that ✅
 * Note to self: Block self ✅
 * Thank everyone ✅
 * Kick back with coffee and check over articles, unhurried - will continue to do so
 * Not included in Article Management:
 * Interwikis - I think bots do that ✅
 * PD images - will let the general public tag where they see fit, so ✅
 * Tags - will let the general public tag where they see fit so ✅
 * Commonscat ✅, I think
 * Contains chinese text box - I hate those and so will not do it. If others want to, fine. ✅
 * Add items to dab pages ✅
 * Hatnotes ✅
 * Redirects to articles for alt spellings/names, acronyms/abbrevs, etc. ✅

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2012 (UTC)