== link formatting == 

 Hi Chaim!  I responded at the course discussion page about the biased sources issue.  As I'm sure you're aware, many articles on Wikipedia are quite bad.  Armenian Genocide denial is clearly the site of some heated editing, and on controversial topics like that, the letter of the NPOV and reliable sources policies are the least of the problems that make it hard to forge a good, stable article.  Browse the talk page of that article to see what debates on such issues often look like. 

 That's something to keep in mind as your students choose articles to work on; large, well-argued topics like Armenia Genocide, or even 2008 South Ossetia war, will be major challenges for students to effectively improve—although it's certainly possible, and success would be a great contribution.  In general, granular sub-topics related to such issues might make better projects for the students. 

 As for link formatting, I reformatted the links on the course discussion page so you can see the wiki markup for links.  Any page on English Wikipedia can be linked by enclosing everything after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ in two pairs of brackets.  So this: 

 [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view]] 

 looks like this: 
 Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. 

 You can change the displayed text of a link by adding a pipe after the page name, followed by the text you want to display.  So this: 

 [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|The Wikipedia policy about neutrality]] 

 looks like this: 
 The Wikipedia policy about neutrality. 

 You can also link to pages on other Wikimedia sites by using their "interwiki" prefixes.  For example, the essay on Meta-Wiki that you pointed to could be linked like this: 

 [[meta:Borderline case|Borderline case]] 

  
 I'm not sure what was going on with your browser tabs crashing; that's not normal behavior on Wikipedia.  I'll ask around, but it's probably one of those things that is particular to your system configuration (