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WRIT 015-15
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 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 prior to class:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article, 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.
By midnight on Sunday, Nov. 6, you should make at least 2 alterations to articles related to your class. You may make a small contribution to an article (1-2 sentences), or add a citation to a claim that doesn't have one.
It's time to choose an article and assign it to your group in class on Nov. 2.
Discussion topics:
This week we will be in the library for two sessions to find sources to supplement our knowledge of censorship challenges to the books we have read for this course.
It's time to organize your sources and make plans for the additions you will make to the Wikipedia article your group is working on.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. You've posted some ideas for what you are planning to add on the talk page of the article. Now it's time to start writing.
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
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Please write a 500-word self-reflection on the Wikipedia process to date. You may address the questions above, but please also include what is working well for you, what problems you have encountered, and what concerns you have about the drafting and publication portions of this assignment. Please reflect on your research and writing processes, but feel free to address any technical issues you have encountered. This self-reflection and the one you complete at the end of the semester will be graded. I will provide a handout in class Monday, Nov. 21 with more directions about the documentation to include with your self-reflection (like your library research).
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?
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Content Expert at any time if you need further help!
It's the final week to develop your article.
The work you do on Wikipedia will be evaluated. More detailed assignment descriptions (with rubrics) for items included in #3 and #4 below will be made available at the appropriate time. Activities under #3 and #4 will constitute your Wikipedia Project grade, which - as per the syllabus - is worth 50% of your overall grade.
1. The six training sessions will count towards your participation grade (20 points for each training completed on time) (trainings: Wikipedia Essentials, Editing Basics, Evaluating Articles and Sources, Sources and Citations, Sandboxes and Mainspace, and Peer Review) ;
2. Readings in week 1 and 2, including the Editing Wikipedia brochure, making small changes to an article in week 2 (due Nov. 6), and daily attendance and preparedness through Dec. 7 will also count towards your participation grade;
3. You will write two self-reflections, one due 11/28 and 12/12, which will count towards your Wikipedia project grade; and
4. You will go through the writing process to improve a Wikipedia article. This process includes completing the article critique and editing worksheet, compiling and posting a bibliography, drafting your contributions/case description, conducting peer review, and making final edits to the article. Successful completion of these activities will also involve timely postings, as per the directions, to Wikipedia talk pages, sandboxes, and the main space. This process will count towards your Wikipedia project grade.
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. |
WRIT 015-15
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 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 prior to class:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article, 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.
By midnight on Sunday, Nov. 6, you should make at least 2 alterations to articles related to your class. You may make a small contribution to an article (1-2 sentences), or add a citation to a claim that doesn't have one.
It's time to choose an article and assign it to your group in class on Nov. 2.
Discussion topics:
This week we will be in the library for two sessions to find sources to supplement our knowledge of censorship challenges to the books we have read for this course.
It's time to organize your sources and make plans for the additions you will make to the Wikipedia article your group is working on.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. You've posted some ideas for what you are planning to add on the talk page of the article. Now it's time to start writing.
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
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Please write a 500-word self-reflection on the Wikipedia process to date. You may address the questions above, but please also include what is working well for you, what problems you have encountered, and what concerns you have about the drafting and publication portions of this assignment. Please reflect on your research and writing processes, but feel free to address any technical issues you have encountered. This self-reflection and the one you complete at the end of the semester will be graded. I will provide a handout in class Monday, Nov. 21 with more directions about the documentation to include with your self-reflection (like your library research).
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?
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Content Expert at any time if you need further help!
It's the final week to develop your article.
The work you do on Wikipedia will be evaluated. More detailed assignment descriptions (with rubrics) for items included in #3 and #4 below will be made available at the appropriate time. Activities under #3 and #4 will constitute your Wikipedia Project grade, which - as per the syllabus - is worth 50% of your overall grade.
1. The six training sessions will count towards your participation grade (20 points for each training completed on time) (trainings: Wikipedia Essentials, Editing Basics, Evaluating Articles and Sources, Sources and Citations, Sandboxes and Mainspace, and Peer Review) ;
2. Readings in week 1 and 2, including the Editing Wikipedia brochure, making small changes to an article in week 2 (due Nov. 6), and daily attendance and preparedness through Dec. 7 will also count towards your participation grade;
3. You will write two self-reflections, one due 11/28 and 12/12, which will count towards your Wikipedia project grade; and
4. You will go through the writing process to improve a Wikipedia article. This process includes completing the article critique and editing worksheet, compiling and posting a bibliography, drafting your contributions/case description, conducting peer review, and making final edits to the article. Successful completion of these activities will also involve timely postings, as per the directions, to Wikipedia talk pages, sandboxes, and the main space. This process will count towards your Wikipedia project grade.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.