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This assignment supports students’ preparation for the required “practice experience” (PE) of the Global Poverty and Practice (GPP) Minor at UC Berkeley. Each student will work on at least two Wikipedia articles – one of them focused on an aspect of the history/sociology of the site of their PE organization (eg. a country such as the U.S., Chile, Kenya, Malaysia ... or it could be a city or region such as Lima, Peru or the San Francisco Bay Area); and the second focused on an aspect of key debates/approaches present in their PE organization’s sector (eg. water sanitation, community health, microfinance, worker-cooperatives, collective action, food justice, affordable housing).
(For example, one student who worked with an organization connecting community organizers in the U.S. with Cuban health professionals, and facilitating the former learning from the latter, edited and added to "Healthcare in Cuba" for her history article. And, another student who worked in a community health clinic in San Francisco, edited and added to "Community health centers in the United States" for her sector article.)
Over time, the GPP program hopes and anticipates that current cohorts of GPP 105 students will return to past 105WikiR-edited articles and so learn from and build upon the work of preceding cohorts .... all the while honing their critical media literacy skills.
Welcome to the timeline for 105WikiR. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for GPP 105, breaking down GPP-related Wikipedia editing/adding into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Our 105WikiR course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Expert, who is a resource for you in addition to Clare Talwalker. Check your Talk page for notes from the course Wikipedia Expert or reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page. You can also contact Prof Talwalker in class, or at any time via email or bCourses, with questions or concerns.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
1. Choose one of the articles on your list. 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. Be sure to describe your change before you hit "Save".
2. Add a citation to one of the articles on your lists. There are two ways you can do this:
3. No matter what your topics, complete the "Editing Medical Topics" training module and read at least 2 of the "Guides for writing articles in your topic area". I recommend looking especially at the History guide and honing in on the paragraph about precisely how (it offers two golden tips) to go about incorporating underrepresented voices on Wikipedia.
Review Wikipedia's rules for topics related to medicine, human health, and psychology.
This assignment gets you thinking more deeply and critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate one article each for area and sector (of your list of possibles), articulate this in your sandbox, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
You've picked articles and begun finding your scholarly sources. Now it's time to start writing. Specifically, it's time to begin summarizing and synthesizing sources, while at the same time finding more sources as you need them (the better to summarize and synthesize).
Most of you will be planning to improve two (or more) existing articles, one related to your PE org area and one to your PE org sector. If any of you is considering creating a new article, then make note of the following:
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.
We will meet individually again to review your final tally of scholarly sources. The sign-up tool is on bCourses. To prepare for this meeting, do the library research (finding sources, combing through them, selecting the useful ones) to bring your list of sources to the total of 14-20 and to write draft annotations (final annotations due along with analytical paper during exam week). Do this in time for your meeting slot.
Note on non-scholarly sources: We agreed that you could use some (0-3 each for area and sector). This still holds. However, I ask any of you considering this to review your choices and confirm them with me when we meet this week. Keep in mind that even if yours is a very new poverty action topic, it is always possible to find scholarly sources that shed light on the immediate background to that topic (eg. "criminalization of the homeless" for the poverty action topic of the Homeless Bill of Rights). Keep in mind also that if you are using non-scholarly sources for up-to-date statistics, that is great -- but it does not preclude your finding scholarly sources to learn how scholars have made sense of similar data.
In-class Presentations next week! Be sure to go over the guidelines and ask me if you have any questions.
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.
It's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Present about your 105WikiR editing experience and about what you have learned in the process about your PE org area and sector.
Your presentation should be 5 minutes long. You may share a handout with your classmates on the day of presentation, or you may use Google slides/Prezi. Please do not take us directly to your Talk page or Mainspace, but represent the activity and your points through oral presentation or through handout/Prezi etc. Remember that you can keep updating your presentation after you share the link.
In your 5 minutes, aim to:
(Optional) If you have time, you can also talk about:
It's the final week to develop your contributions. We will devote some Week 15 class time to peer review what you have brought to Mainspaces so that you can make these final edits, and also outline your contributions and update your Bibliography in your sandbox (see below).
- Update your "Bibliography" section in your sandbox with your final sources, along with your draft annotations.
- Add a new section in your sandbox titled "My Contributions", and here briefly list your work throughout this semester (eg. minor edits throughout the History section of "x" article; updated 4 citations on "y" article; added 3 new citations on "x" article; wrote 4 sentences on "z" article, major rewriting of 'Recent Contributions' section of "z" article, creating of new section in "x" article with # sentences in it ... etc.)
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
This is due during exam week (Week 17) not Week 16. See bCourses for the assignment guidelines.
This Course
|
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. |
This assignment supports students’ preparation for the required “practice experience” (PE) of the Global Poverty and Practice (GPP) Minor at UC Berkeley. Each student will work on at least two Wikipedia articles – one of them focused on an aspect of the history/sociology of the site of their PE organization (eg. a country such as the U.S., Chile, Kenya, Malaysia ... or it could be a city or region such as Lima, Peru or the San Francisco Bay Area); and the second focused on an aspect of key debates/approaches present in their PE organization’s sector (eg. water sanitation, community health, microfinance, worker-cooperatives, collective action, food justice, affordable housing).
(For example, one student who worked with an organization connecting community organizers in the U.S. with Cuban health professionals, and facilitating the former learning from the latter, edited and added to "Healthcare in Cuba" for her history article. And, another student who worked in a community health clinic in San Francisco, edited and added to "Community health centers in the United States" for her sector article.)
Over time, the GPP program hopes and anticipates that current cohorts of GPP 105 students will return to past 105WikiR-edited articles and so learn from and build upon the work of preceding cohorts .... all the while honing their critical media literacy skills.
Welcome to the timeline for 105WikiR. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for GPP 105, breaking down GPP-related Wikipedia editing/adding into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Our 105WikiR course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Expert, who is a resource for you in addition to Clare Talwalker. Check your Talk page for notes from the course Wikipedia Expert or reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page. You can also contact Prof Talwalker in class, or at any time via email or bCourses, with questions or concerns.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
1. Choose one of the articles on your list. 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. Be sure to describe your change before you hit "Save".
2. Add a citation to one of the articles on your lists. There are two ways you can do this:
3. No matter what your topics, complete the "Editing Medical Topics" training module and read at least 2 of the "Guides for writing articles in your topic area". I recommend looking especially at the History guide and honing in on the paragraph about precisely how (it offers two golden tips) to go about incorporating underrepresented voices on Wikipedia.
Review Wikipedia's rules for topics related to medicine, human health, and psychology.
This assignment gets you thinking more deeply and critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate one article each for area and sector (of your list of possibles), articulate this in your sandbox, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
You've picked articles and begun finding your scholarly sources. Now it's time to start writing. Specifically, it's time to begin summarizing and synthesizing sources, while at the same time finding more sources as you need them (the better to summarize and synthesize).
Most of you will be planning to improve two (or more) existing articles, one related to your PE org area and one to your PE org sector. If any of you is considering creating a new article, then make note of the following:
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.
We will meet individually again to review your final tally of scholarly sources. The sign-up tool is on bCourses. To prepare for this meeting, do the library research (finding sources, combing through them, selecting the useful ones) to bring your list of sources to the total of 14-20 and to write draft annotations (final annotations due along with analytical paper during exam week). Do this in time for your meeting slot.
Note on non-scholarly sources: We agreed that you could use some (0-3 each for area and sector). This still holds. However, I ask any of you considering this to review your choices and confirm them with me when we meet this week. Keep in mind that even if yours is a very new poverty action topic, it is always possible to find scholarly sources that shed light on the immediate background to that topic (eg. "criminalization of the homeless" for the poverty action topic of the Homeless Bill of Rights). Keep in mind also that if you are using non-scholarly sources for up-to-date statistics, that is great -- but it does not preclude your finding scholarly sources to learn how scholars have made sense of similar data.
In-class Presentations next week! Be sure to go over the guidelines and ask me if you have any questions.
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.
It's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Present about your 105WikiR editing experience and about what you have learned in the process about your PE org area and sector.
Your presentation should be 5 minutes long. You may share a handout with your classmates on the day of presentation, or you may use Google slides/Prezi. Please do not take us directly to your Talk page or Mainspace, but represent the activity and your points through oral presentation or through handout/Prezi etc. Remember that you can keep updating your presentation after you share the link.
In your 5 minutes, aim to:
(Optional) If you have time, you can also talk about:
It's the final week to develop your contributions. We will devote some Week 15 class time to peer review what you have brought to Mainspaces so that you can make these final edits, and also outline your contributions and update your Bibliography in your sandbox (see below).
- Update your "Bibliography" section in your sandbox with your final sources, along with your draft annotations.
- Add a new section in your sandbox titled "My Contributions", and here briefly list your work throughout this semester (eg. minor edits throughout the History section of "x" article; updated 4 citations on "y" article; added 3 new citations on "x" article; wrote 4 sentences on "z" article, major rewriting of 'Recent Contributions' section of "z" article, creating of new section in "x" article with # sentences in it ... etc.)
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
This is due during exam week (Week 17) not Week 16. See bCourses for the assignment guidelines.