Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Update/23 November 2010

More resources for professors now available

The Ambassador Resources page is one central location to find useful handouts to give to students who have a Wikipedia assignment -- and now, we've included handouts of sample assignments, too. New additions to the page include handouts on uploading images, a how-to references guide, and sample assignments on assessing sources, copy editing, and comparing Wikipedia's coverage to that of another encyclopedia. For these documents and more, visit the Ambassadors Resources page.

New Leaderboard highlights students' work

Ever wondered which classes and students are contributing the most content to Wikipedia in the fall term? Check out the new Leaderboard! This page breaks down bytes added to the article namespace (that is, it doesn't count contributions on user pages, only Wikipedia articles) by course and student. Georgetown and Syracuse are off to an early lead, but the syllabi for those courses also included more early assignments. As students from other schools contribute more, will they be able to catch up? Add the Leaderboard to your watchlist.

Read our fall learning points

The Public Policy Initiative is a pilot program -- and as such, we are constantly learning from our experiences. Based on internal discussions and feedback from professors, students, Online Ambassadors, and Campus Ambassadors, we've developed a list of learning points we've had in the fall semester, complete with what we'll change for the spring to address the problems we encountered. See our learning points so far.

Students in the Syracuse University class

Check out Syracuse course page

Syracuse's standing on the Leaderboard referenced above becomes all the more impressive when you realize the course size is six students. The six of them in the "Wikipedia and Public Policy" class are working on multiple articles, and already they've each made valuable contributions to Wikipedia. Visit their course page to see more information on the articles they're working on.