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Gordon:
Quoting from the appropriate page, "...a Wikipedia stub is a short
article in need of expansion...," so one would presume that a
student-researched contribution on their home town would not be a stub,
but a possible correction for one.
Stubs are always marked as such, usually near the bottom, though a
lack of citations or other problems will often be noted at the top with an
icon. There are templates for stubs of different subject categories.
Here's a link to a list of stub categories...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Stub_types
...clicking on any will give you a list of stubs in that category.
Hope this helps!
Jeff
Jeffrey L. Jones
http://www.emck.net
> From: Gordon Walter <gordonwalter@mchsi.com>
>
> What are some examples of Wikipedia stubs that I could look at?
> How would a casual reader recognize that he is reading a stub instead of a
> regular article? Is there some sort of icon that indicates an article is
a
> stub?
> If a stub is an extremely short article that consists of only a paragraph
or
> two, I would think that an article by a classroom of kids on their
hometown
> would not qualify at all as a stub.
>
> Gordon Walter
> Retired AGWSR School Librarian
> 101 Hilltop Drive
> Ackley, Iowa 50601
> Tel: 641-847-3315
> Email: gordonwalter@mchsi.com
>
>> From; Jeffrey L. Jones <jeff@emck.net>
>>
>> Eddie:
>> I find it remarkable that all of the postings so far have
focused on
>> Wikipedia as an information source, and no one has mentioned the fact
that
>> it is, in fact, a wiki, and hence a knowledge construction and
>> collaboration platform. There are two absolutely unassailable uses of
>> Wikipedia for projects or writing...
>>
>> 1) Have it serve as a platform for critical thinking and analysis -
don't
>> just have kids read it, have them analyze it and determine what makes
(or
>> fails to make) what they've read reliable information.
>> 2) Have your students pick out a topic which is a stub on Wikipedia
>> (another EDTECH member mentioned the school's home town as a
possibility),
>> and have them write the Wikipedia entry. being careful about #1.
>>
>> I really do use Wikipedia for information quite regularly, but
I
>> often don't find it helpful for things which have a lot of built-in
>> interest, such as pop culture, current politics, as well as anything
having
>> to do with computer technology. As a reference for student writing...I
>> wasn't allowed to focus exclusively on my school library's World Book
>> Encyclopedia when I attended school back in the days of pot-bellied
stoves
>> and slates (!), and I don't see Wikipedia improving on that now.
>> Jeff
>> Jeffrey L. Jones
>> http://www.emck.net
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