Benefits
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The space inside the horse is a Trojan Playground
editThere are sandboxes for articles, but they were never complimented by sandbox-pedia to become a fully safe playground for the editor. Students already knew how to write a response for a reading assignment, they’d been doing it for years. Now they only had to focus on getting the mark-up right in their first time after clicking and edit button. dlchu1230 confirms
“I thought it was a great idea to introduce the Wikipedia interface through the homework first because it definitely made making the final project edits more intuitive when the time came. The homework assignments helped me grow accustomed to the technical mark-ups.”