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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

I for one am glad you brought your class here, they've added a lot of valuable content. A little bit of cleaning up English is a small price to pay for information that I for one have no idea about.

I noticed the images too, also very nice, I assume most of these were taken by the class with digital cameras. It might be a good idea to have a look at our copyright policy though, it would be better if they made an explicit release of the image material under the GNU FDL.

Thanks again! Hope you and your class have a great time here. - Hephaestos 05:41 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I too always like to see schools and unis picking up Wikipedia. Could you do us a favor and describe in a little more detail what you are doing and how on the newly created Wikipedia:School and university projects page? Thanks! --Eloquence 05:52 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Same here, is any arrangement needed? kt2 05:57 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I think what you're doing is great. To have a large number of keen, intelligent contributors suddenly writing interesting material about Hong Kong was a pleasant surprise. I just have one request: I was a bit confused at first, I didn't know where they were all coming from or what they were doing. In the future, do you think you could ask them to fill out their user pages? Just something like "I'm a University of Hong Kong student doing a project on Wikipedia," and maybe a link to Wikipedia:School and university projects. I just want to avoid confusing all the other Wikipedia contributors, that's all. -- Tim Starling 06:07 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the warm welcomes. I've posted information on the class to the new topic Wikipedia:School and university projects. And yes, I'll tell them to put something in their user pages to identify themselves.

BTW, to folks who have posted or queried here, I seek your advice. I'd like to do a survey of the students after the exercise is over. I want them to evaluate the experience. None of them had used a Wiki before, and to many the concept was completely foreign. So I'd like to somehow capture the "buzz" and reflections afterwards. So if you could pose some interesting questions for them to answer, I would apprecaite it. The best ones are quantifiable choice questions (ie. on a scale from 1-10, true/false).

Some I had in mind already, but please add, and we can put a recommended list to educators on the Wikipedia:School and university projects page.

How useful did you find the project?

Did you ever run into an editing conflict?

How did you resolve it?

What parts of the interface were hard to use?


Some ideas:

  1. I found the editing syntax difficult to use. [1 (very false).. 10 (very true]
  2. I found the website design appealing.
  3. I found the experience as a whole confusing.
  4. Exploring Wikipedia was an enjoyable experience.
    • Which aspects in particular?
  5. I did have many social interactions on the site.
  6. Sexual or offensive content should be censored by editors.
  7. The social interactions I had were pleasant.
  8. I think Wikipedia is already a serious work of reference.
  9. I learned something new from Wikipedia.
  10. Wikipedia shows that humans can work together online in large groups, even without being paid to do so.
  11. I think that maintaining a neutral point of view will be impossible.
  12. Wikipedia will eventually replace all other encyclopedias.
  13. I will use Wikipedia again, as a reader.
  14. I will use Wikipedia again, as an author.
  15. I think wikis should be used for other purposes beyond creating an encyclopedia.
    • Which ones?
  16. Wikipedia needs more centralized control.

Note that you could derive some interesting correlations from these questions. Are the pro-control types more inclined to believe that the principle doesn't work? Are those who found the design unappealing less inclined to come back? --Eloquence 07:02 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

More ideas:

  1. Working on Wikipedia has improved my English language skills.
  2. I felt comfortable working collaboratively with native English speakers.
  3. The information is Wikipedia is unreliable.
  4. The Wikipedians I encountered were helpful.
  5. I found it frustrating when others edited my work.

I'm pleased that you're using Wikipedia in your class, and I hope to see more experiments like this. -- Stephen Gilbert 15:32 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

On interlanguage/multilingual aspect

I'm a contributor from the Chinese Wikipedia.

Q for students: How do you find Wikipedia's multilingual capability? What contributes to the imbalance between the size of different language-versions? What caused it?

Also, even just within the English WP, for some proper nouns or exotic words, we place local texts. (See Three Principles of the People (anthem) for an example)

Q for students: Do you find having local texts (such as Simplified or Chinese Chinese characters, Hanja, and Kanji) annoying visually or helpful? Do you think non-Hong Konger feel the same way as you do? Why or why not? Why do you think Wikipedia does this? Does it mean English is unimportant here (in the English Wikipedia)?

--Menchi 18:31 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)


On publishing and research

I'd like to begin doing some detailed papers on Wikipedia and need some statistics from the backend. Anyone know who to best talk to about this? Also, I will be in San Diego next month, and would appreciate any contacts with Wikipedians and Bomis to see if I could go for a site visit. Thanks. (Fuzheado 06:03 22 Jul 2003 (UTC))

Stat -- Here's some: size & contributions by Erik Zachte. --Menchi 01:24, Jul 30, 2003 (UTC)
Site visit -- try User talk:Jimbo Wales. --Menchi 04:37, Aug 3, 2003 (UTC)

Thank you for exposing your students to Wikipedia! We can always use more interested people contributing (or even just reading). I recently worked up some pages on river dolphins, and I was wondering if any of your students might know about the Chinese River Dolphin. It's in the Yangtze river only, so there are certainly none in Hong Kong, but someone might do a lot of reading, so I'd appreciate any help you could offer. Thanks in advance. --Dante Alighieri 04:07, 6 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Please use the "Move this page" function next time so the edit history remains intact. --Jiang 01:13, 24 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Excellent job on the addition ("overthrow") to the Hawaii History section. I'm a Hawai'i resident and a haole, but you got it straight and avoided POV in my opinion - Marshman 04:52, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Thanks much. That section was long overdue. Fuzheado 06:25, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hi there! I want to create articles like "List of Chinese people by name: 李" in order to clarify some confusions in the transliteration of Chinese family names. But English Wikipedia don't accept non-latin letters in the title. Could you give me some suggestions? Wshun

That's a good question. Perhaps some of the other Chinese experts in Wikipedia might know, like User:Jiang and User:Menchi - Fuzheado 06:13, 28 Aug 2003 (UTC)
User:Wshun, do you mean articles which detail the background of common Chinese surnames? There already exists a list of the "Hundred Families' Names" (well, actually, there are only around 60 listed), but you can expand on this topic by painstakingly going through the list and resolving any discontinuities. I am currently working on the Zhang surname, and transliterations using other systems (Wades-Giles, Cantonese, etc.) will be redirected towards the correct page. --Taoster
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