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Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Political Economy of Technology and Science fall 2010

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COURSE LEADERBOARD

Rank Username Characters added Active days
1 Marian Sokolski 30034 8
2 Mulforel 21183 6
3 Air3drew 19726 4
4 Richharriott 18712 4
5 Elangate 13340 6
6 Teklegam 11484 3
7 Hawkinjw 11024 6
8 Loflinrm 9168 2
9 Tessitjp 9113 8
10 Snyde2bd 6562 5
11 Jmsheats 6300 0
12 Rothboy2 4748 4
13 Ironman340 4368 1
14 New Potato Caboose 4146 4
15 Tannerbk 3637 1
16 Atb2393 2685 1
17 Harrimel 1908 2
18 Feuchtcc 608 3
19 AbbyChrisinger 249 3
20 Campbets 0 0
21 Jdempsey113 0 0
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Course description

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Political Economy of Technology and Science.

Solutions to human problems are mediated by economic and political institutions, which in turn help to shape technology and science. The course covers basic political and economic concepts, institutions and processes as they relate to American and international science and technology. From JMU Course Catalog.

Assignment overview

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Students will be assigned to groups and improve one article related to the topics covered in Dr. Tang's section of the course. The objective will be to make the article a B-class article, doing work as thoroughly as both time and accessibility of research permits.

Assignment timeline

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  • October 25th – Students create User accounts, watch several short informational pieces online about including content in Wikipedia read a couple policies.
  • November 8 (extended to November 15) – An initial bulleted bibliography of works the students plan to use to write the article on the user sandbox and a brief outline of major topics or sections they want covered.
  • November 29 – Article goes live. One group member meets with Alex Stinson in afternoon to discuss progress on articles and questions about anything related to the Wikipedia portion of the assignment, each section in outline must have a summary on the page. Also, members of the Wikipedia community will be solicited for feedback on the article by Ambassadors/Alex.
  • December 10 – Final day for edits to count for classroom assessment

Students

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This is a list of groups of students and their articles, which students will sign up for at the appropriate time. Please sign your name below with the following code *{{user|EXAMPLE}}.

Mentors please add "Mentor:Username" under the individual sections so that we know who will be working with which group.

Groups

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  1. Jfgx4 (talk · contribs)

Mentor: The ed17 (talk · contribs)

Sandbox:User:Mulforel/Sandbox

(Note:Unlike the other articles this one will be started from scratch.)

Mentor: Piotrus (talk · contribs)

User:Tessitjp/sandbox

User:New Potato Caboose/sandbox

Mentor: Mike Christie (talk · contribs)

User:AbbyChrisinger/sandbox

User:Tannerbk/sandbox

Mentor: smallman12q (talk · contribs)

User:Air3drew/sandbox

Mentor: The ed17 (talk · contribs)

Mentor: Arbitrarily0 (talk · contribs) User:Rothboy2/Draft Page

Mentor: Arbitrarily0 (talk · contribs) User:Marian Sokolski/sandbox