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> You could even have a computer class where kids from the school would update their school's wiki page as a way to learn how to contribute to wikipedia. Might
by shagie 3y ago
> You could even have a computer class where kids from the school would update their school's wiki page as a way to learn how to contribute to wikipedia. Might actually be the easiest type of page in the whole wiki to keep fresh now that I think about it, while creating a whole generation of interested editors.
This type of effort often creates a disproportionate amount of work for the volunteers maintaining Wikipedia.
If you feel that that would be a good thing to do, the school should stand up its own wiki about itself that students could update and maintain.
That also avoids possible conflict with the rules of Wikipedia.
I recall a school that attempted to do "ask a question on Stack Overflow" and all the students in the class asked the same question - nearly word for word - about their current assignment... that all then got closed as duplicates of each other.
If the goal is to introduce someone to the application platform, it is likely better to have them work in a private instance where the mentor to new user ratio is much higher and things like "you need to make sure that you are using proper and correct English with capitalization and punctuation," are not "revert and leave an impersonal comment on their talk page about the expected quality of their contributions."