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Tutorial 5 Be aware of this week's Module - there are discussion board posts that need to be done. '''Email subject line should be 'OLES2129 - Tutorial 5 activity. I will be marking the roll based on this. '''

Activity - Adding your references to your article Add references to your article on your OLES2129 draft page. You can have a look at how references are handled on my draft page here.

Send me a link to your draft page (Special:MyPage) when you are finished.

Previous Tutorials Tutorial 4 '''Be aware of this week's Module - there are discussion board posts that need to be done. Here is the link to the articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_articles_in_need_of_updating. You will be looking at ones from 2019. Otherwise, I've added a very simple activity for today to help you get your page off to a good start.''' '''Email subject line should be 'OLES2129 - Tutorial 4 activity. I will be marking the roll based on this. '''

Activity - Setting up a framework for your article Draw up a framework for your article on your OLES2129 user page. There is a sample layout located here. Don't worry too much about content, focus on layout and sections. Think about images, infoboxes (use placeholders if you don't have anything picked out). If you are keen to work on something content-wise try and start a lead section.

Send me a link to your draft page (Special:MyPage) when you are finished.

Finally - to exercise some of the Talk Page skills you've learned in the modules - post on someone else's talk page. Make sure you create a new section (unless you're replying) and sign off with your signature! Go into the talk page of this page and make an indented reply to my first comment giving me a link to your draft page! Tutorial 3 '''Activity today will be about how to do an annotated bibliography. When you're done, send me an email (lawrence.boikov@sydney.edu.au) with your user page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:username/OLES2129). On your user page should be the content for the activity.''' '''Email subject line should be 'OLES2129 - Tutorial 3 activity. I will be marking the roll based on this. '''

Activity - Annotated Bibliography Pick a featured article and pick one of the sources that the article references.

Discuss the reliability and usefulness of the source based on:

Scholarship

Author’s background

Where was the source published?

Is the information within the source independently verifiable?

Context

Age of source relative to topic

Intent of information, targeted audience

Content

Does the source omit important details and overrepresent others?

Is the information fact or opinion? (This doesn’t necessarily disqualify the source from use but does mark against objectivity)

Style and structure of content.

These are examples of things that you can choose to cover in your annotated bibiliography, its likely you won't have the word count in your assignment to deal with all of these for each source. Pick what you think is most important.

Tutorial 2 Pick two of the four activities for this week's seminar. When you're done, send me an email (lawrence.boikov@sydney.edu.au) with your user page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:username/OLES2129).

On your user page should be the content for the activity (the talk page for the article that was edited or your description for Activity 1. Email subject line should be OLES2129 - Activities 1/2/3/4 depending on which activities you chose.

If you decided to work in pairs - send me the link to both user pages. When you edit a talk page on Wikipedia, make sure you add your signature to the end of your post. You can do this by typing ~.

Activity 1 - Quality and Importance Ratings in WikiProjects Click this link: Random Article (alternatively, use the Wikipedia sidebar and select 'Random Article'). For the article that you've found, go to the Talk page and have a look at the quality or importance rating for the article within the scope of the project. If it is already a high-quality or featured article, random again. If not, on your user page briefly describe what steps would be required to elevate the article's rating to an A-class article on that WikiProject's scale.

Activity 2 - Citation Needed Click this link: Random Article (alternatively, use the Wikipedia sidebar and select 'Random Article') until you find an article with an unsubstantiated fact that requires a reference. Add an appropriate tag to the page from the following list: Template messages/Cleanup. You can use an inline tag or an individual message box for the entire article depending on the severity of the lack of citations. Open up a discussion on the article's Talk page about why the citation is needed.

Activity 3 - The Plaigiarism Dilemma Click this link: Random Article (alternatively, use the Wikipedia sidebar and select 'Random Article') until you find an article with a reference that has paraphrasing that is too close to the original content. Tag it with the tag and open up a discussion on the article's Talk page to fix the problem. Take a look at the following link for good ways to address simple paraphrasing issues: Close paraphrasing.

Activity 4 - Citation Hunt https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt - Add a needed citation through this link (if you can find a reliable source!). Put a link of the changes on your user page. For information on what constitutes a reliable source - check here: Identifying reliable sources