Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of Oklahoma/History of Science from Antiquity to Newton (Summer 2013)

Hi folks! Sorry that I haven't gotten a chance to give feedback on everyone's article choices.

One thing to watch out for is that a lot of articles related to the history of science in Islam have a lot of history and related discussion that you might not notice if you just look at one of the short articles in the topic area. There was an editor, User:Jagged 85, who was banned from Wikipedia because of misusing sources to push his point of view in a lot of those articles, and a lot of long articles got chopped down to "stubs" so that they could be rebuilt eventually. Book of Optics, Physics in medieval Islam and Psychology in medieval Islam are a few of them, but there are others as well. It's always a good idea to check out the history and the talk page of the article you're working on, but for topics related to science in Islam, it's especially important to do so. If you choose something that has a long version in the history, it's okay to just start from the current "stub", and you can also use parts of the longer old versions as long as you verify everything from the cited sources yourself.

Good luck, and if anyone needs help feel free to give me a ping!--ragesoss (talk) 16:13, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Hello all, I have updated a first draft of my article in my sandbox. The text is complete but I am still working out some issues with citations and references. Please feel free to read and add suggestions. Thanks, Zoulogy (talk) 03:26, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Course finished
I thought this course went well. I've just finished reading the reflection essays and am finishing grading the wikipedia contributions right now. If anyone has suggestions for improving the course in the future, or has noticed any systematic problems with the work of the class, please list it here. I hope to run this project the next time I teach the course, so any feedback would be much appreciated. Kirwanfan (talk) 21:55, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I haven't had a chance to look closely at all the students' work yet, but from what I've been seeing, I agree that it went very well! Your students should be proud. Maybe we can have a little chat some time soon about how it went, after I've had a chance to look at the students' work in more detail. Also, I'm probably going to do a Wikipedia workshop at HSS this year, which you should join to share your experiences if you're going.--ragesoss (talk) 12:41, 11 June 2013 (UTC)


 * The Sidereus Nuncius article is exemplary in terms of improvement over the previous version, length, depth, and sources. I will probably use this as an example for future classes. Kirwanfan (talk) 13:54, 11 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you! :) AstroJodi (talk) 15:27, 16 June 2013 (UTC)