orichalcum

So, my students created the roughdraft of their Wikipedia articles last Friday and sent the links to me and to three fellow students for review. The student comments are due tomorrow, and the final version is due Friday. This seemed fairly straightforward.

However, Wikipedia does not, of course, exist in a vacuum. A number of random Internet people have been editing and revising my students' articles, which I thought would go largely ignored for a week since, after all, they are on rather obscure topics like Babatha and L. Caecilius Iucundus. So the question becomes, how do I grade fairly given those revisions? My current plan is to check the history links, but that will be cumbersome and take much longer than expected. I could just give them credit for creating the article.

All in all, it's a good thing, but rather inconvenient at the moment.