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This course examines the ways in which various levels of government organize, produce, and disseminate information. With a focus on the Canadian context, and drawing on select international comparisons, the course explores a diverse range of government information and data resources, approaches for working with these types of materials, and key themes such as access, copyright, open government, and preservation.
Students will work independently or collaboratively to enhance stub articles on topics related to government information, preferably in the Canadian context. This type of assignment will help students develop skills relevant for information professionals - writing for a generalist audience, peer-reviewing, engaging with scholarly and other types of literature, working with a content management system, etc. It should be a learning experience for all of us!
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.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia 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:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article related to the course and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article. There are two ways you can do this:
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start editing.
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
It's the final week to develop your article.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
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. |
This course examines the ways in which various levels of government organize, produce, and disseminate information. With a focus on the Canadian context, and drawing on select international comparisons, the course explores a diverse range of government information and data resources, approaches for working with these types of materials, and key themes such as access, copyright, open government, and preservation.
Students will work independently or collaboratively to enhance stub articles on topics related to government information, preferably in the Canadian context. This type of assignment will help students develop skills relevant for information professionals - writing for a generalist audience, peer-reviewing, engaging with scholarly and other types of literature, working with a content management system, etc. It should be a learning experience for all of us!
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.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia 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:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article related to the course and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article. There are two ways you can do this:
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start editing.
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
It's the final week to develop your article.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.