Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Assignment - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment

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.

Resources:

• Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
• Evaluating Wikipedia

Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia

Now that you have created an account and join this course page by using the enrollment link your instructor sent you, start completing the background material to understand Wikipedia. (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.)

You should understand the policies that are in place for Wikipedia from the introductory modules. Now learn more about the tools you can use. Also, review the traning on plagiarism.

Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Do NOT do the optional exercise and do NOT fill in the entire form. You will do this process to find three Wikipedia articles and save Evaluate an Article Templates in your sandbox for each. You need to find a C-class article of your choice, an article that needs a citation of your choice, and pick one article from the Articles->Available Articles that you wish to edit (these are Stubs).

When you are finished, post links to your articles in a thread of the Wiki Topics discussion on BBLearn (add to a thread if it is the same topic).

Assignment - Review the rules for health topics (if applicable)

In class - Discussion

Follow this link to get the information we will discuss in class (not as a BBLearn Discussion)

Assignment - Exercise

Assignment - Choose possible topics

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Assignment - Add to an article

Assignment - Form your team and select your group topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

Genes and Proteins

Medicine

Species

Milestones

Everyone has comleted the background training for their topic.

Milestones

Continue refining your page as a group. You may want to consider adding other features.

Assignment - Peer review an article

Guiding framework

Milestones

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Assignment - Respond to your peer review

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:

• Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
• Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Assignment - Continue improving your article

Continue 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.

Assignment - Polish your work

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!

Assignment - Final article

It's the final week to develop your article.

• Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
• Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Assignment - Reflective essay

Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.