Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Update/28 September 2010

Public Policy Initiative pilots new reader feedback tool
The Public Policy Initiative is playing host to a brand new pilot of a tool that gives readers an easy way to rate the quality of Wikipedia articles. The Article Feedback Tool now appears on the bottom of all of the articles students are contributing to, as well as on 450 more public policy-related articles. It allows any reader to quickly and easily assess sourcing, completeness, neutrality, and readability of the article. See the Wikimedia Foundation blog post for more information.



Watch four new Wikipedia videos
Who contributes to Wikipedia? Find out by watching a series of four short videos released last week featuring Wikipedia editors. The series is designed to be used in the classroom to introduce potential new contributors to the community of editors there to assist them as they navigate how to edit Wikipedia. See a blog post for more information.

Or click these links to be taken to YouTube:
 * Wikipedia: Username
 * Wikipedia: Nice people
 * Wikipedia: Edit button
 * Wikipedia: Great feeling

How Wikipedia has been used in classrooms
As part of the Public Policy Initiative, we are collecting stories about how Wikipedia has been used in university classrooms. One such story is in Reid Parham's blog post, "Wikipedia in higher education? it's legitimate, and I proved it long ago." Reid's undergraduate thesis set out to prove that Wikipedia has a place in the classroom. Read the full blog post.

Lots of news coverage of the Public Policy Initiative
The university publications and student newspapers have been eager to cover the involvement of their campuses in the Public Policy Initiative. We've recently had articles from Indiana University and Georgetown University's communications offices, and student newspaper articles in the George Washington Hatchet, Syracuse Daily Orange, Georgetown Hoya, and Indiana Daily Student. Check out the Media Coverage section for links to these articles and more.