<![CDATA[I am now working on my Wikipedia user page user:Salvor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Salvor

I am trying to grasp the complex rules that seems to be for posting in Wikipedia, to learn how to use MediaWiki is easy but as I see it as a novice there seem to be many rules for posting and refering to other articles. I guess these has evolved over the time Wikipedia has been around.

My reason for this is that I want to encourage my students to start working on the Icelandic version of Wikipedia, there are only about 7000 articles there now. I have been trying to get them to post articles there for years but without much luck even if many of my students are working on projects which are very much suitable for Wikipedia. There are several reasons for this.

One is that this is a new medium that students are not comfortable with and dont believe are relevant, second is that they want to feel like sole authors, they dont want to give up ownership of their creations - in Wikipedia the author disolves in the text - but there are other ways evolving of how to recognize contributions. In many cases students have high expectations of continuation of their work, they are starting on projects that they think they will continue to update for years after they graduate. And indeed some projects are regularly updated, very much like my Icelandic Christmas web site that I have been constantly updating since 1996, I use that as an example of work that is never finished.
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