Talk:Design thinking
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Wiki Education assignment: Digital Art History (Spring 2022)
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation–supported course assignment, between 18 January 2022 and 27 April 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): FantasyM7 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Anan lyz, Athenare, JinJane.
Wiki Education assignment: Academic Writing II (Spring 2024)
[edit] This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation–supported course assignment, between 3 March 2024 and 13 May 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): CHERMEL.AUS (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Leenlovesreading.
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Wiki Education assignment: Intro to Technical Writing
[edit] This article is currently the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation–supported course assignment, between 29 September 2026 and 10 November 2026. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): NFN8 (article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by Liamkren (talk) 14:30, 6 October 2026 (UTC)
Student editors
[edit]I have some concerns about the recent editing of Design thinking and Participatory design by student editors from the University of Pittsburgh course on Technical Writing. Some of the edits are very welcome: they provide useful updates. However, some of the edits seem to me to be verbose and in a journalistic style, with long paragraphs stating seemingly opinion, with citations added only at the very end. One long paragraph in Design Thinking makes extensive claims, but is based only on a trialling of a 'novel app' in statistics education a couple of years ago. Some citations still remain with arror tags.
Another of the same group of student editors, working on [[Participatory design]], posted on their user page that they 'Had to add more words/info to reach word count'. So are these edits genuinely appropriate for Wikipedia, if the students have to pad out their contributions so as to reach a tutor-required minimum word count?
Is anyone at the University of Pittsburgh checking these edits before they are posted onto the article page?
Is making edits to Wikipedia articles really an appropriate education/training for Technical writing?
Is this happening widely throughout Wikipedia?
I am reluctant to discourage these students by simply deleting their contributions, which I think could have been just kept in-house to their course, or at least should have been appropriately monitored in advance by their University tutors. Designergene (talk) 19:19, 28 October 2026 (UTC)
- I have run many Wikipedia assignments through Wiki Education in the past, and they explicitly prohibit instructors from requiring students to hit a particular word count in their Wikipedia contributions. Wiki Education is well aware of the danger of students padding their writing if they think they need to generate a certain amount of text.
- You might want to share your concerns with the course's instructor: User:Jialeijiang
- You can also seek input from the course's Wikipedia expert: User:Brianda (Wiki Ed)
- Owunsch (talk) 00:45, 29 October 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you! @Brianda (Wiki Ed) has already reacted to my similar comments about student editing of Participatory design, but not yet to Design thinking. I have left a message on the Talk page of @Jialeijiang. Designergene (talk) 10:02, 29 October 2026 (UTC)
- There has been no response so far from the instructors regarding the student edits here in Design thinking, so I will begin edits. These will include major deletions. My reasons: The student edits tend to focus heavily on rather narrow aspects. The style overall is verbose. Wording is often sloppy (e.g. 'In recent years', 'Many students', 'there have been many'). There are spelling and grammar mistakes, and uncorrected citation errors. Gives editor's opinions (e.g. 'should be', 'would be', 'must', 'can vastly improve', 'the health care system is inefficient' (which health care system?). Impossible to tell if the texts are summaries of the content and conclusions from the citations, or the editor's own interpretations. Designergene (talk) 17:02, 30 October 2026 (UTC)
- P.S. I don't think I should have to! The instructors should be taking care of this!! Designergene (talk) 17:04, 30 October 2026 (UTC)
- There has been no response so far from the instructors regarding the student edits here in Design thinking, so I will begin edits. These will include major deletions. My reasons: The student edits tend to focus heavily on rather narrow aspects. The style overall is verbose. Wording is often sloppy (e.g. 'In recent years', 'Many students', 'there have been many'). There are spelling and grammar mistakes, and uncorrected citation errors. Gives editor's opinions (e.g. 'should be', 'would be', 'must', 'can vastly improve', 'the health care system is inefficient' (which health care system?). Impossible to tell if the texts are summaries of the content and conclusions from the citations, or the editor's own interpretations. Designergene (talk) 17:02, 30 October 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you! @Brianda (Wiki Ed) has already reacted to my similar comments about student editing of Participatory design, but not yet to Design thinking. I have left a message on the Talk page of @Jialeijiang. Designergene (talk) 10:02, 29 October 2026 (UTC)
