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The ALR Wikipedia article assignment is intended to provide students with an opportunity to edit or create an article on a legal topic. Students will provide substantive research and analysis, written for a general audience. The goal is to provide a meaningful public service while exploring information assessment, reliability and accessibility of the law and legal literature.
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces. Please ignore the dates under the section headings.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page. They're a good person to contact with questions about editing Wikipedia, or about this Wiki Edu website; for questions about the assignment, please contact your instructors.
We expect you to complete the trainings and exercises in this section by Monday, April 29. We'd also like you to have finalized a topic by that date. We strongly recommend that you check in with us about your topic ideas before the due date; the "Topic Selection" section below, as well as the Canvas module for this assignment, contains some tips and resources for choosing a topic.
Resources:
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
[[../../../training/students/choose-topic-exercise|Choose a topic]]
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6
What makes a good topic for this course? In addition to the tips in the modules above, we suggest selecting a topic that...
Suggested resources for finding topics:
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.
Resources:
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
[[../../../training/students/continue-improving-exercise/link-articles|Add links to your article]]
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media. You should also format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards.
When you're ready to submit your article:
This Course
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Wikipedia Resources
|
Connect
Questions? Ask us:
contact |
![]() | 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. |
The ALR Wikipedia article assignment is intended to provide students with an opportunity to edit or create an article on a legal topic. Students will provide substantive research and analysis, written for a general audience. The goal is to provide a meaningful public service while exploring information assessment, reliability and accessibility of the law and legal literature.
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces. Please ignore the dates under the section headings.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page. They're a good person to contact with questions about editing Wikipedia, or about this Wiki Edu website; for questions about the assignment, please contact your instructors.
We expect you to complete the trainings and exercises in this section by Monday, April 29. We'd also like you to have finalized a topic by that date. We strongly recommend that you check in with us about your topic ideas before the due date; the "Topic Selection" section below, as well as the Canvas module for this assignment, contains some tips and resources for choosing a topic.
Resources:
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
[[../../../training/students/choose-topic-exercise|Choose a topic]]
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6
What makes a good topic for this course? In addition to the tips in the modules above, we suggest selecting a topic that...
Suggested resources for finding topics:
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.
Resources:
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
[[../../../training/students/continue-improving-exercise/link-articles|Add links to your article]]
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media. You should also format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards.
When you're ready to submit your article: