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Course description: A study of public personnel systems in the United States with major concentrations on the national civil service system. Special emphasis is given to current research in the areas of leadership, informal organization, motivation, and small group theory.
Welcome to the Wikipedia project's course timeline.
This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. It breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. You should use the information contained here in conjunction with the assignment descriptions on our TRACS page.
This week, please review the following readings:
This week, everyone should gain a basic understanding of the project and how it fits into the course, have a Wikipedia account, and be enrolled on our course page.
Now that the project is officially underway, you should make a habit of signing in to Wikipedia before you begin any work. If you don’t login, your contributions are not linked to your Wikipedia user id and could result in you not receiving credit for the assignment.
Our course has 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.
This week, please review the following handouts:
It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.
Everyone has completed 2 of the online training sessions and practiced editing.
This week you'll start working as part of a team. We'll begin by discussing what research tells us about groups, including the process of becoming a team. In class, you will develop a team charter--a document that sets forth your group's goals and expectations about participation and performance.
This week, please review the following readings:
It's time to choose an article and assign it to yourself.
The team charter is completed during class by the entire team and initialed by each team member to indicate she or he is in agreement with the expectations delineated in the charter. For specific instructions on drafting the team charter, view the assignment description on TRACS.
All students have selected an article that they want to research and have met with their teams to discuss group expectations.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. This week, you'll evaluate your Wikipedia article, and make suggestions for improving it on your sandbox.
Before completing the article evaluation assignment, be sure to:
After reading "Evaluating Wikipedia" and completing the online trainings, "Evaluating Articles and Sources" and "Sandboxes and Mainspace," evaluate the quality of your existing Wikipedia article.
Consider some questions below (but don't feel limited to these):
Once you have evaluated the article, leave your comments on your Wikipedia sandbox. Be sure to begin your entry with the heading: "Article evaluation."
On Wikipedia, all material must be attributable to reliable, published sources. What kinds of sources does this exclude? In class, we will go over the annotated bibliography assignment and engage in a discussion engaging the following questions on sources and plagiarism:
This week, please review the following readings:
Post your annotated bibliography to your sandbox.
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
feedback from me.
at this point all teams have a clear game plan on how to proceed.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
Before moving your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace" keep in mind the following advice on editing an existing article:
all groups have begun editing their article and placed edits on articles mainspace
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
Present about your Wikipedia editing experience
This Course
|
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. |
Course description: A study of public personnel systems in the United States with major concentrations on the national civil service system. Special emphasis is given to current research in the areas of leadership, informal organization, motivation, and small group theory.
Welcome to the Wikipedia project's course timeline.
This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. It breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. You should use the information contained here in conjunction with the assignment descriptions on our TRACS page.
This week, please review the following readings:
This week, everyone should gain a basic understanding of the project and how it fits into the course, have a Wikipedia account, and be enrolled on our course page.
Now that the project is officially underway, you should make a habit of signing in to Wikipedia before you begin any work. If you don’t login, your contributions are not linked to your Wikipedia user id and could result in you not receiving credit for the assignment.
Our course has 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.
This week, please review the following handouts:
It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.
Everyone has completed 2 of the online training sessions and practiced editing.
This week you'll start working as part of a team. We'll begin by discussing what research tells us about groups, including the process of becoming a team. In class, you will develop a team charter--a document that sets forth your group's goals and expectations about participation and performance.
This week, please review the following readings:
It's time to choose an article and assign it to yourself.
The team charter is completed during class by the entire team and initialed by each team member to indicate she or he is in agreement with the expectations delineated in the charter. For specific instructions on drafting the team charter, view the assignment description on TRACS.
All students have selected an article that they want to research and have met with their teams to discuss group expectations.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. This week, you'll evaluate your Wikipedia article, and make suggestions for improving it on your sandbox.
Before completing the article evaluation assignment, be sure to:
After reading "Evaluating Wikipedia" and completing the online trainings, "Evaluating Articles and Sources" and "Sandboxes and Mainspace," evaluate the quality of your existing Wikipedia article.
Consider some questions below (but don't feel limited to these):
Once you have evaluated the article, leave your comments on your Wikipedia sandbox. Be sure to begin your entry with the heading: "Article evaluation."
On Wikipedia, all material must be attributable to reliable, published sources. What kinds of sources does this exclude? In class, we will go over the annotated bibliography assignment and engage in a discussion engaging the following questions on sources and plagiarism:
This week, please review the following readings:
Post your annotated bibliography to your sandbox.
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
feedback from me.
at this point all teams have a clear game plan on how to proceed.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
Before moving your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace" keep in mind the following advice on editing an existing article:
all groups have begun editing their article and placed edits on articles mainspace
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
Present about your Wikipedia editing experience