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Students will be expected to do a small assignment this term where they learn about Wikipedia. All students will be expected to take the Wikipedia trainings, critique an article, and make a small contribution to Wikipedia. Please check back here weekly for more information about your assignment.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You should all evaluate the article on
Gender Identity or the article about
Racism
Don't cite Wikipedia, write Wikipedia!
When your instructors say "don't use Wikipedia" what do they mean? Today in class we will discuss Wikipedia generally and how we use it in our lives, how it relates to research, and more. Pick one of the following questions and come prepared to discuss in class on Thursday.
For the add to an article project: Create a new section in your sandbox where you draft your contribution. When you're ready, move it live. Leave a comment in your sandbox about why your contribution was valuable.
For the copyedit project: Create a new section in your sandbox and leave a small critique of the article (choosing prompts from the critique an article assignment). Leave a comment highlighting the copyediting you did and why you think it was a valuable improvement.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article related to the course. There are two ways you can do this:
Choose an article. Read through it, thinking about ways to improve the language, such as fixing grammatical mistakes. Then, make the appropriate changes. You don’t need to contribute new information to the article.
This Course
|
Wikipedia Resources
|
Connect
Questions? Ask us:
contactwikiedu.org |
This course page is an automatically-updated version of the main course page at dashboard.wikiedu.org. Please do not edit this page directly; any changes will be overwritten the next time the main course page gets updated. |
Students will be expected to do a small assignment this term where they learn about Wikipedia. All students will be expected to take the Wikipedia trainings, critique an article, and make a small contribution to Wikipedia. Please check back here weekly for more information about your assignment.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You should all evaluate the article on
Gender Identity or the article about
Racism
Don't cite Wikipedia, write Wikipedia!
When your instructors say "don't use Wikipedia" what do they mean? Today in class we will discuss Wikipedia generally and how we use it in our lives, how it relates to research, and more. Pick one of the following questions and come prepared to discuss in class on Thursday.
For the add to an article project: Create a new section in your sandbox where you draft your contribution. When you're ready, move it live. Leave a comment in your sandbox about why your contribution was valuable.
For the copyedit project: Create a new section in your sandbox and leave a small critique of the article (choosing prompts from the critique an article assignment). Leave a comment highlighting the copyediting you did and why you think it was a valuable improvement.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article related to the course. There are two ways you can do this:
Choose an article. Read through it, thinking about ways to improve the language, such as fixing grammatical mistakes. Then, make the appropriate changes. You don’t need to contribute new information to the article.