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We are working on digital curation projects. The wikipedia portion of this course is designed to help you synthesize, understand, and make useful the overview of the field that you have gained from previous course and the current course readings. It is helpful to interpret it for a broader public and work on summarizing skills. As a digital curator, this assignment also asks you to help the field by improving references and reliable knowledge about the field.
Welcome to the Wikipedia project timeline for INST 742. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project.
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.
The 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.
Here are some articles to consider for this evaluation assignment:
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
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.
As part of the project journal, you should recount some of your work editing Wikipedia. Topics to consider include the challenges of editing, the nature and ethos of the wikipedia community (particularly for new/novice editors), what qualities you see as indicative of better articles, the overall representation of digital curation topics on wikipedia, or reflect on the research and writing process. You should be thinking about one blog entry each week during the course, and those during the Wikipedia unit may be devoted to this assignment.
For the first installment, consider:
Please use the course blog for this assignment. You can find the course blog at http://blog.umd.edu/digcur/.
It's time to choose an article and assign it to yourself.
As part of the project journal, you should recount some of your work editing Wikipedia. Topics to consider include the challenges of editing, the nature and ethos of the wikipedia community (particularly for new/novice editors), what qualities you see as indicative of better articles, the overall representation of digital curation topics on wikipedia, or reflect on the research and writing process. You should be thinking about one blog entry each week during the course, and those during the Wikipedia unit may be devoted to this assignment.
For this installment, consider:
Please use the course blog for this assignment. You can find the course blog at http://blog.umd.edu/digcur/.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
Creating a new article?
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.
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?
Creating a new article?
Handout: "Did You Know" submissions
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 Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
Present about your Wikipedia editing experience.
Consider the following questions as you reflect on your Wikipedia assignment:
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
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Wikipedia Resources
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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. |
We are working on digital curation projects. The wikipedia portion of this course is designed to help you synthesize, understand, and make useful the overview of the field that you have gained from previous course and the current course readings. It is helpful to interpret it for a broader public and work on summarizing skills. As a digital curator, this assignment also asks you to help the field by improving references and reliable knowledge about the field.
Welcome to the Wikipedia project timeline for INST 742. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project.
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.
The 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.
Here are some articles to consider for this evaluation assignment:
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
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.
As part of the project journal, you should recount some of your work editing Wikipedia. Topics to consider include the challenges of editing, the nature and ethos of the wikipedia community (particularly for new/novice editors), what qualities you see as indicative of better articles, the overall representation of digital curation topics on wikipedia, or reflect on the research and writing process. You should be thinking about one blog entry each week during the course, and those during the Wikipedia unit may be devoted to this assignment.
For the first installment, consider:
Please use the course blog for this assignment. You can find the course blog at http://blog.umd.edu/digcur/.
It's time to choose an article and assign it to yourself.
As part of the project journal, you should recount some of your work editing Wikipedia. Topics to consider include the challenges of editing, the nature and ethos of the wikipedia community (particularly for new/novice editors), what qualities you see as indicative of better articles, the overall representation of digital curation topics on wikipedia, or reflect on the research and writing process. You should be thinking about one blog entry each week during the course, and those during the Wikipedia unit may be devoted to this assignment.
For this installment, consider:
Please use the course blog for this assignment. You can find the course blog at http://blog.umd.edu/digcur/.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
Creating a new article?
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.
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?
Creating a new article?
Handout: "Did You Know" submissions
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 Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
Present about your Wikipedia editing experience.
Consider the following questions as you reflect on your Wikipedia assignment:
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.