Past Projects: Wikipedia:WikiProject AP Biology 2009 and Wikipedia:WikiProject AP Biology 2008
This
WikiProject is defunct. It has been merged into or replaced by WikiProject AP Biology 2011. Consider participating in that or looking for related projects for help or ask at the Teahouse. If you feel this project may be worth reviving,
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WikiProject AP Biology 2011
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A high school class in North Carolina - Croatan High School in Newport, North Carolina - will contribute to Wikipedia until May 20, 2011. The collective goal is to write biology related articles and bring them up to featured article status (or, good article status). This is done as part of an Advanced Placement Biology course. The lead editor is Jimmy Butler. This project is a followup performance of our 2008 and 2009 efforts. The 2008 Wikipedia AP Biology Project was marked with much success. Our efforts in 2009 Wikipedia AP Biology Project, were less broad in scope; yet, none-the-less generated two FA articles; strangely, both on turtles! The 2010 season should pose an even greater challenge, with only 8 potential contributors; they all must step up and be counted. As always, we are prepared to adapt:
Feel free to
discuss this project. Please notify me of any concerns, especially if they involve the behavior of my students on Wikipedia. With a little patience, this should be an inspirational experience for all.
The dreaded “Research Paper” is a standard hurdle for most AP programs. Rightfully so, since many college courses require such publications to validate your existence. As a consequence, I have graded literally hundreds of papers with the same enthusiasm as my students proclaimed during their creation. In the end, they were rewarded for their effort or destroyed for their incompetency; some even caught by the highly feared Turnitin.com anti-plagiarism software. The papers themselves merely contributed to our bloated landfills. Hence, my excitement over this new approach to constructing a scientific document. Rather than researching for a paper that is destined to the circular bin, let us contribute to the world-wide data base for others to benefit.
This is a second semester follow-up to the 2010-2011 Project. As always, I am seeking ways to improve the experience by implementing new strategies. In this case, the student's goal is to improve evolution related articles by making a series of minor contributions. In the process they will become more acquainted with the subject of evolution as they review the literature and web resources.
The emphasis on less dramatic edits on numerous articles as opposed to focusing on a single article is a shift from past strategies. If this is successful, there may be merit in switching the order on the 2011-2012 Project. We could begin with accumulated small edits on a shared theme during semester I and then push for success on a single article within that theme in semester II - just thinking ahead.
The bulleted list below outlines the methods of accumulating points. It too is a marked change in protocol. The new strategy should reduce procrastination and minimize the impact of a single grade on the student's overall average. There is flexibility on point assessment. Ultimately, points awarded is based on my judgment. If I deem the content insignificant, the prose changes inappropriate, the references not to standard or the images unworthy of the article then points may be denied. Monday morning, at the start of class, will mark the beginning of a new grading cycle - the expectations are a maximum of 10 pts. per week. Points do not carry over. I am open for expanding the table to include additional avenues of contribution.
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Please place this template in the discussion page of any article that is being worked on as part of this project. It will help the community identify the work carried out by AP Biology 2010. Simply copy and paste into the article's talk page somewhere near the top:
This article was intensively edited as a Fall 2010 / Spring 2011
educational assignment:
WikiProject AP Biology 2010. We invite you to join us to make further improvements and changes. We are not claiming any sort of ownership. This is a project in collaboration. |
Place this template on the talk page of articles that are granted the FA star:
This article was intensively edited during the Fall of 2010 and the Spring of 2011 as a high school assignment ( WikiProject AP Biology 2010). The collaboration between the students and the wider Wikipedia community culminated in Featured Article status being granted to this article. |
Some information on planning and resources for the AP Biology 2010 Project.
There's no precise order for everything. (Wikipedia doesn't care if you skip everything and go straight for a FA nomination: as long as the article satisfies the criteria.) There's always the need for small, incremental change. But over the course of the project we're looking for radical change, in some cases seeking to create a featured article from scratch. So we need also to be methodical.
And it may turn out that not all articles will be submitted to Featured Article Review. But this should still be our goal!
Whenever you edit, make sure that you are signed in. Also, add four tildes ~~~~ to the end of all comments you make on talk pages. This will let people know who is talking. Please state your contributions in brief, in the edit summary!
To get past the stumbling blocks of GA and FA, articles will have to conform to the Wikipedia style guides. The three largest barriers are:
Secondary style guide are specific to different projects. Articles must conform to these also. Conflict between any of these is inevitable and troublesome; editors simply have to work out conflicts through consensus.
You can always ask for help at:
These articles were adopted by the AP biology class 2008-2010 as either stubs or poorly written start class articles and were elevated to the status listed below.
Show at own risk. |
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The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. |
This serves as the bucket described in Wiki -AP Bio 2008. It's where I piss and moan without offending anyone. Actually, it is a place to keep my notes for future improvements or perhaps as take-it or leave-it feedback for other educators which I hope will follow. You go back Jack, and do it again... wheels turning round and round.
I cannot accept this. They are capable of so much more. Thinking ... pair them up and attack this from a broader perspective. Select a major theme (evolution). Then expanded upon the numerous stubs; a sentence, a section, an image, formatting; copy-editing; however, no particular attachment to one article .... Thinking.-- JimmyButler ( talk) 02:53, 6 February 2011 (UTC) |
Past Projects: Wikipedia:WikiProject AP Biology 2009 and Wikipedia:WikiProject AP Biology 2008
This
WikiProject is defunct. It has been merged into or replaced by WikiProject AP Biology 2011. Consider participating in that or looking for related projects for help or ask at the Teahouse. If you feel this project may be worth reviving,
please discuss with related projects first. Feel free to change this tag if the parameters were changed in error.
|
Join us at
WikiProject AP Biology 2011
.
A high school class in North Carolina - Croatan High School in Newport, North Carolina - will contribute to Wikipedia until May 20, 2011. The collective goal is to write biology related articles and bring them up to featured article status (or, good article status). This is done as part of an Advanced Placement Biology course. The lead editor is Jimmy Butler. This project is a followup performance of our 2008 and 2009 efforts. The 2008 Wikipedia AP Biology Project was marked with much success. Our efforts in 2009 Wikipedia AP Biology Project, were less broad in scope; yet, none-the-less generated two FA articles; strangely, both on turtles! The 2010 season should pose an even greater challenge, with only 8 potential contributors; they all must step up and be counted. As always, we are prepared to adapt:
Feel free to
discuss this project. Please notify me of any concerns, especially if they involve the behavior of my students on Wikipedia. With a little patience, this should be an inspirational experience for all.
The dreaded “Research Paper” is a standard hurdle for most AP programs. Rightfully so, since many college courses require such publications to validate your existence. As a consequence, I have graded literally hundreds of papers with the same enthusiasm as my students proclaimed during their creation. In the end, they were rewarded for their effort or destroyed for their incompetency; some even caught by the highly feared Turnitin.com anti-plagiarism software. The papers themselves merely contributed to our bloated landfills. Hence, my excitement over this new approach to constructing a scientific document. Rather than researching for a paper that is destined to the circular bin, let us contribute to the world-wide data base for others to benefit.
This is a second semester follow-up to the 2010-2011 Project. As always, I am seeking ways to improve the experience by implementing new strategies. In this case, the student's goal is to improve evolution related articles by making a series of minor contributions. In the process they will become more acquainted with the subject of evolution as they review the literature and web resources.
The emphasis on less dramatic edits on numerous articles as opposed to focusing on a single article is a shift from past strategies. If this is successful, there may be merit in switching the order on the 2011-2012 Project. We could begin with accumulated small edits on a shared theme during semester I and then push for success on a single article within that theme in semester II - just thinking ahead.
The bulleted list below outlines the methods of accumulating points. It too is a marked change in protocol. The new strategy should reduce procrastination and minimize the impact of a single grade on the student's overall average. There is flexibility on point assessment. Ultimately, points awarded is based on my judgment. If I deem the content insignificant, the prose changes inappropriate, the references not to standard or the images unworthy of the article then points may be denied. Monday morning, at the start of class, will mark the beginning of a new grading cycle - the expectations are a maximum of 10 pts. per week. Points do not carry over. I am open for expanding the table to include additional avenues of contribution.
|
Please place this template in the discussion page of any article that is being worked on as part of this project. It will help the community identify the work carried out by AP Biology 2010. Simply copy and paste into the article's talk page somewhere near the top:
This article was intensively edited as a Fall 2010 / Spring 2011
educational assignment:
WikiProject AP Biology 2010. We invite you to join us to make further improvements and changes. We are not claiming any sort of ownership. This is a project in collaboration. |
Place this template on the talk page of articles that are granted the FA star:
This article was intensively edited during the Fall of 2010 and the Spring of 2011 as a high school assignment ( WikiProject AP Biology 2010). The collaboration between the students and the wider Wikipedia community culminated in Featured Article status being granted to this article. |
Some information on planning and resources for the AP Biology 2010 Project.
There's no precise order for everything. (Wikipedia doesn't care if you skip everything and go straight for a FA nomination: as long as the article satisfies the criteria.) There's always the need for small, incremental change. But over the course of the project we're looking for radical change, in some cases seeking to create a featured article from scratch. So we need also to be methodical.
And it may turn out that not all articles will be submitted to Featured Article Review. But this should still be our goal!
Whenever you edit, make sure that you are signed in. Also, add four tildes ~~~~ to the end of all comments you make on talk pages. This will let people know who is talking. Please state your contributions in brief, in the edit summary!
To get past the stumbling blocks of GA and FA, articles will have to conform to the Wikipedia style guides. The three largest barriers are:
Secondary style guide are specific to different projects. Articles must conform to these also. Conflict between any of these is inevitable and troublesome; editors simply have to work out conflicts through consensus.
You can always ask for help at:
These articles were adopted by the AP biology class 2008-2010 as either stubs or poorly written start class articles and were elevated to the status listed below.
Show at own risk. |
---|
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. |
This serves as the bucket described in Wiki -AP Bio 2008. It's where I piss and moan without offending anyone. Actually, it is a place to keep my notes for future improvements or perhaps as take-it or leave-it feedback for other educators which I hope will follow. You go back Jack, and do it again... wheels turning round and round.
I cannot accept this. They are capable of so much more. Thinking ... pair them up and attack this from a broader perspective. Select a major theme (evolution). Then expanded upon the numerous stubs; a sentence, a section, an image, formatting; copy-editing; however, no particular attachment to one article .... Thinking.-- JimmyButler ( talk) 02:53, 6 February 2011 (UTC) |