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Sometimes articles written by students are deleted quickly. New student editors make format mistakes sometimes. Or, the articles may have some misspelled words. It can take a long time for students to finish writing an article. Students feel bad when their articles are deleted. Teachers want time to help their students before articles are deleted. The Schools/projects page helps students write articles for the Simple English Wikipedia. The Schools/Projects guidelines here help fix these problems. Please read the "The teachers' guide" for good ways to use Simple Wikipedia with students.

Creating a project

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1. Create a school project: give a name, a description and an end date for the project on this page, (Wikipedia:Schools/Projects). This should include the names of all the pages, and a wikipedia editor who can be contacted if things go wrong. (see list below) There should be a point of contact for the project in case of any problems that may come up. This is usually one of the teachers.

2. Tag project pages: add this tag to the top of students pages: {{classproject| your project name}},

3. Use the sandbox: have the students make their own sandbox. There are instructions on this page Wikipedia:User page. There is also a link at the bottom of every edit page. This is a User page where users can write their article and work on it until it is ready to be put onto the wiki. Wiki administrators do not normally delete things from a user's sandbox.

4. Use the edit summary: below the edit window is a place to write in a summary. Tell what you edited: for example "Corrected spelling", or "added new section on ice cream". This helps other editors know what you are doing on the page.

If you look at the Wikipedia:Deletion policy you will find that there are reasons why pages get "quickly deleted" (Normal deletion process takes a week). Most of the quick deletions are "complete nonsense pages", "attack pages" (X is stoopid), pages simply copied and pasted from another wiki or web site, and pages where notability (is the article important enough to be included) is hard to judge.

Other pages that may be helpful:

This Wikipedia needs articles. Please write the best ones you can.

Editors who can help with school projects

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If you are stuck or if you need some help changing Wikipedia you can ask one of our editors. Below is a list of people who can help you with school projects or help you change Wikipedia. Click on their talk page to ask them a question.

Please add your name to this list if you are able to help with school projects.

Add your new project at the bottom of this page

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Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe

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Welcome to the school project Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe. This project aims to bring English students from Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe to edit articles of Wikipedia in a fun way! Before editing Wikipedia, we will first do some reading exercises, then find subjects to edit, find sources and add one phrase. Depending on how it goes, we might go farther.

Historical Figures of the Middle Ages

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We will be working with about 65 students to do some editing on Simple English Wikipedia. They are working on a project that involves researching female figures in the Middle Ages. They will research in library reference sources and then they will edit and cite the sources they reference in the Simple English Wikipedia article.

History of Psychology

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We are working as part of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Wikipedia project. Students in my class of 100 Rutgers undergraduates are learning to write and edit in Wikipedia, with the goal of increasing the number and quality of entries relevant to psychology. We are editing three articles on Simple English Wikipedia. We aspire to add articles both to Simple English Wikipedia and English Wikipedia. As the Fall 2013 semester progresses we will be soliciting feedback on new articles.

Historical Figures from China, Africa, and the Middle East

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We will be working with about 65 students to do some editing on Simple English Wikipedia. They are working on a project that involves researching lesser-known historical figures from Imperial China and Africa, as well as figures from the Middle East. They will research in library reference sources and then they will edit and cite the sources they reference in the Simple English Wikipedia article.

Notable Female Authors for Middle Grades/Young Adult

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We will be working with about 65 students to do some editing on Simple English Wikipedia. In honor of Women's History Month here in the US, students will add to the content of pages about notable female authors. They will research in library reference sources and then they will edit and cite the sources they reference in the Simple English Wikipedia article.

Notable African American Innovators

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We will be working with about 20 students to do some editing on Simple English Wikipedia. Students will add content to pages of notable African American innovators. They will be using Biography.com and library resources as their reference material. They will cite the sources they reference in the Simple English Wikipedia article.

Electronics Review

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We will be working with 31 students to contribute to Simple English Wikipedia. Students from our school did similar work three years ago. Students will review content and add sources, images, and diagrams to articles relating to electronics. We plan to finish our work by May 28, 2015.

Body Systems project

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We will be working with about 65 students to do some editing on Simple English Wikipedia. In honor of Women's History Month here in the US, our all-female students will learn to edit by applying their knowledge about different issues related to ecology. They will also be practicing the S-V-O sentence structure they have been learning in class. They will research in library reference sources and then they will edit and cite the sources they reference in the Simple English Wikipedia article. After they post their articles, a series of subject specialists will check both their writing and their content for clarity and precision.

Students will begin working on this project on Feb. 22 and continue through the month of March, 2016.

EASELL

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This project of ‘’Editing Articles in Simple English by Language Learners’’ (EASELL) will involve 36 students in the areas of science, history, and literature. A few of those students will be translating articles from Wikipedias in other languages that currently do not exist in Simple English. Working individually, with a partner, and in groups, they will evaluate each other's work and provide suggestions for improvement. All articles will include references in English, as well as images. Students will be working on these articles from April 4 to June 10, 2016.

Notable Female Scientists

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We will be working with about 65 students to do some editing on Simple English Wikipedia. In honor of Women's History Month here in the US, students will add to the content of pages about notable female scientists. They will research in library reference sources and then they will edit and cite the sources they reference in the Simple English Wikipedia article.

Notable Female Activists

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We will be working with about 65 students to do some editing on Simple English Wikipedia. To better learn how Wikipedia works and contribute to society, students will add to the content of pages about notable female activists, selected from a wide variety of fields and nationalities. They will research in library reference sources and then they will edit and cite the sources they reference in the Simple English Wikipedia article.

Notable Females from the San Francisco Bay Area

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We will be working with about 65 students to do some editing on Simple English Wikipedia. To better learn how Wikipedia works and contribute to society, students will add to the content of pages about notable females from our region, selected from a wide variety of fields and nationalities. They will research in library reference sources and other provided sources and then they will edit and cite the sources they reference in the Simple English Wikipedia article.

Deep Fukui Project: Famous Places and Traditional Crafts in Fukui Prefecture, Japan

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We are a sophomore Project-Based Learning class in the School of Global and Community Studies at the University of Fukui, Japan. We will be working as an ongoing project on editing and creating articles connected to Fukui Prefecture, Japan on Simple English Wikipedia until February, 2022. We are currently editing and adding articles on two themes--Famous Places in Fukui and Traditional Crafts in Fukui. We will focus on Fukui’s main sightseeing spots and famous traditional crafts. The information shall be gathered from various sources, including newspapers and books, and those sources will be cited in the articles.

Notable Female Role Models

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We will be working with about 65 students to do some editing on Simple English Wikipedia.

To better learn how Wikipedia works and contribute to society, students will add to the content of pages about notable females (and non-cisgender males), selected from a wide variety of fields and nationalities. They will research in library reference sources and other provided sources and then they will edit and cite the sources they reference in the Simple English Wikipedia article.


Notable Middle East

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Notable Middle East is part of a huge Content creation project at NUCT University. NUCT have its own Mediawiki systems, where the students submit at least one article (video, an audio content sometimes) in order to pass each class. The project was designed to generate Arabic articles cause online Arabic content needs to be boosted. During the past two years, the students generated more than 20,000 articles. Starting last semester, the University modified the project in order to produce English content. The English articles will focus on the Middle East, mostly Jordan. The students will have almost zero interaction with Simple. A group of us (usually me) will hand pick the "OK" articles, copy them here, add links and categories. Content is already PD, so it will fit within the CC-BY-SA.3.0. No links to the University website is required or expected.

There is no time limit for the project. we have a total of 3000 students working on the main project, 150 of them opted to work on the English articles.


Notable Women from 20th Century Social Movements in the US

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We will be working with about 65 students to do some editing on Simple English Wikipedia.

To better learn how Wikipedia works and contribute to society, students will add to the content of pages about notable females (and non-cisgender males), selected from a wide variety of social movements that took place in the US during the 20th Century. They will research in library reference sources and other provided sources and then they will edit and cite the sources they reference in the Simple English Wikipedia article.

Notable Women: Found with Inclusive Journalism

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We will be working with about 65 students to do some editing on Simple English Wikipedia.

To better learn how Wikipedia works and contribute to society, students will add to the content of pages about notable females (and non-cisgender males). Our topics this year match with our intersession topic of Inclusive Journalism -- basically, we are writing about women who are better known to us when journalism is more inclusive. This continues our work with students to help them understand how gatekeeping in journalism and in publishing more generally makes it harder to write about women and people with gender-expansive identities.


Notable Women Working with Languages

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We will be working with about 65 students to do some editing on Simple English Wikipedia.

To better learn how Wikipedia works and contribute to society, students will add to the content of pages about notable females (and non-cisgender males), selected from a wide variety of fields and nationalities. They will research in library reference sources and other provided sources and then they will edit and cite the sources they reference in the Simple English Wikipedia article.

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