This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.
This challenge is for the uninitiated Librarian-cum-Wikipedian.
You'll learn how to edit and then take the challenge of improving one article from our trove of Open Access Content.
You'll do this by taking following some interactive videos, and then editing Wikipedia.
The easiest way to tangibly contribute to Open Access Week.
Write a sentence or two on your profile about yourself. And then add your languages on your user page as well. Do so by adding templates from this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Babel/List.
Ok I have completed the assignment. I started a P2PU university draft in my user space. I even tried to upload the logo but was told that cannot be done until a real P2PU wikipedia article has been started. But I did get to browse the requirements for uploading images or other media. Very enlightening tasks.
Oh wow. Well done for making a P2PU Wikipedia article draft. I think I'd like to help too. We'll need to find some secondary sources.
Being the risk taker I am, I uploaded my draft P2pU page. Apparently it goes through a vetting process before it is actually taken live. So let's see what happens.
I added a citation in your userspace that I found from the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_learning
Oh nice. Thanks. I will check it out and also see if the P2PU page was actually published.
Well my submission of the P2PU page was rejected. You can see the rejection notice here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Simkathy
I am not discouraged. Maybe there would be a way for all of us to improve it and submit again?
Newsflash: it looks like the page to edit and editing comments are here now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Peer_to_Peer_University
Wonderful. I added one source, I'll try and find another.
Ok I've thoroughly improved this article and moved it into the main space. that's a morning well spent.
Max: great job on launching the Peer to Peer University page. I will try to improve it from time to time. But first I should read up on quality standards.
No, thank you for spurring it on. We should think about what sections we would like to expand or create. I basically was just summarizing the top news articles and journal abstracts I could find on the subject to get it passed the "article for creation" threshold.
I can read and write elementary hebrew, so I added it to my userpage as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Notconfusing
I am not sure how to grade my other languages (spanish, french, german). But congratulations for adding Hebrew. I wish I was more gifted with languages but sigh - I am not.
Some people translate Wikipedia articles between languages to practice. That's a worthy idea for a rainy weekend.
