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Interactions between research and media concerning topics that get popular attention such as proper nutrition, risk of toxins, pandemic disease threats, predictive genetic tests, cancer and other health screening tests, the opioid epidemic, the legacy of tobacco research, immunization, physician assisted suicide, gene editing and precision medicine. Each student will edit one Wikipedia article to understand the concept building a neutral consensus based on the best sourcing
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.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page. Read the material linked below
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.) For your Wikipedia user name, chose one that is anonyous and gender neutral. There is not a lot of trolling on Wikipedia, but you have to be aware of the danger anytime you use the internet. After you create material on Wikipedia you can claim credit by telling those you want what your user name is
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Look at two Wikipedia articles. This one on celiac disease (coeliac is the British spelling) describes the condition that is one of the main reasons people avoid gluten in their diet. You would NOT work on an article like this. The is article is rated FA class -- the highest on Wikipedia's quality scale. You can see that described on the article's talk page. It was also a featured article indicated by the gold star in the upper right corner of the main page. You would not work on because it has been vetted and there is likely not much to add unless something updates the information. Still take a look to see why it is considered so good then look at this article. This describes a potential treatment to avoid celiac disease. This article is called stub class on the quality scale. It is a place holder awating much more infomration. The article you ultimately chose work on for this assignment will likey be a stub or a "start class" article giving more opportunites to improve it
In addition, copy and paste any paragraph from a current Wikipedia article in the mainspace into yout sandbox. Make at least two edits in the text and add a citation. These two not have to be correct. I want you to demonstrate to me and yourself that you are comfortable with the editing process. Leave the before and after paragraphs in your sandbox. Do NOT make any changes in the mainspace. Explain you have done it with the signature ~~~~
Find the article you want to work on for the remainder of the class. It should be relevant to any of the topics mentioned in the syllabus. Ideally it should be a stub or start class article. You can use a higher rated article if you think you can make a substantial contribution. Before you make a choice, we will go over in class methods for finding articles. For you, an imprtant criterion is finding a subject that interests you enough so you want to spend some time with it
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
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
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.
Rember you can consult a Wikipedia expert anytime by pressing the "get help" button
Resources:
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace." Please note: the comments from the Wikipedia community and your class peers will not affect your grade. Your grade will be determined by the product in your sandbox by midnight November 16, but you will be docked credit if you do not move it into the mainspace by this date. The rubric for grading is in the week 12 assignment
Rember you can consult a Wikipedia expert anytime by pressing the "get help" button
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
This is your term paper.Due before midnight December 14. 3000-4000 words on any topic related to the class, possibly even the subject you chose for your Wikipedia assignment. But with the paper you will make an argument aimed either at policy makers or the public. This is quite different from the neutral tone required for the Wikipedia assignment and one of the major goals is for you to appreciate the difference
This Course
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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. |
Interactions between research and media concerning topics that get popular attention such as proper nutrition, risk of toxins, pandemic disease threats, predictive genetic tests, cancer and other health screening tests, the opioid epidemic, the legacy of tobacco research, immunization, physician assisted suicide, gene editing and precision medicine. Each student will edit one Wikipedia article to understand the concept building a neutral consensus based on the best sourcing
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.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page. Read the material linked below
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.) For your Wikipedia user name, chose one that is anonyous and gender neutral. There is not a lot of trolling on Wikipedia, but you have to be aware of the danger anytime you use the internet. After you create material on Wikipedia you can claim credit by telling those you want what your user name is
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Look at two Wikipedia articles. This one on celiac disease (coeliac is the British spelling) describes the condition that is one of the main reasons people avoid gluten in their diet. You would NOT work on an article like this. The is article is rated FA class -- the highest on Wikipedia's quality scale. You can see that described on the article's talk page. It was also a featured article indicated by the gold star in the upper right corner of the main page. You would not work on because it has been vetted and there is likely not much to add unless something updates the information. Still take a look to see why it is considered so good then look at this article. This describes a potential treatment to avoid celiac disease. This article is called stub class on the quality scale. It is a place holder awating much more infomration. The article you ultimately chose work on for this assignment will likey be a stub or a "start class" article giving more opportunites to improve it
In addition, copy and paste any paragraph from a current Wikipedia article in the mainspace into yout sandbox. Make at least two edits in the text and add a citation. These two not have to be correct. I want you to demonstrate to me and yourself that you are comfortable with the editing process. Leave the before and after paragraphs in your sandbox. Do NOT make any changes in the mainspace. Explain you have done it with the signature ~~~~
Find the article you want to work on for the remainder of the class. It should be relevant to any of the topics mentioned in the syllabus. Ideally it should be a stub or start class article. You can use a higher rated article if you think you can make a substantial contribution. Before you make a choice, we will go over in class methods for finding articles. For you, an imprtant criterion is finding a subject that interests you enough so you want to spend some time with it
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
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
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.
Rember you can consult a Wikipedia expert anytime by pressing the "get help" button
Resources:
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace." Please note: the comments from the Wikipedia community and your class peers will not affect your grade. Your grade will be determined by the product in your sandbox by midnight November 16, but you will be docked credit if you do not move it into the mainspace by this date. The rubric for grading is in the week 12 assignment
Rember you can consult a Wikipedia expert anytime by pressing the "get help" button
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
This is your term paper.Due before midnight December 14. 3000-4000 words on any topic related to the class, possibly even the subject you chose for your Wikipedia assignment. But with the paper you will make an argument aimed either at policy makers or the public. This is quite different from the neutral tone required for the Wikipedia assignment and one of the major goals is for you to appreciate the difference