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Week 7 (Oct 7): Wikipedia essentials
Assignment (done together in class on October 7)
 * In class on October 7, 2014
 * Watch Video with Adrianne Wadewitz teaching about Wikipedia editing
 * Review of Wikipedia essentials
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
 * Handout: Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation)
 * Do the online student orientation. During this training, you will create an account, make edits in a sandbox, and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
 * Basics of editing
 * Create a user page, and sign up on the list of students on the course page.
 * Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good and bad articles
 * Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Feminism/Students
 * Handouts: Using talk pages, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality, Wikimarkup cheatsheet


 * Milestone:
 * All students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.

Week 8: Exploring the topic area
Turn in Wikipedia editing proposal with timeline for semester. This could include:
 * In class
 * Handouts: Advice for choosing articles and How to get help
 * Assignments (due week 8):
 * Critically evaluate an existing Wikipedia article related to the class, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article’s talk page.
 * Research and list 3–5 articles on your Wikipedia user page that you will consider working on as your main project. Ask your instructor for comment.
 * Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with a citation to an appropriate source, to a Wikipedia article related to the class.


 * For next week
 * Instructor evaluates student's proposals, by week 9 (Oct 21).

Week 9: Choosing articles

 * In class
 * Discuss the range of topics students will be working on and strategies for researching and writing about them.
 * Select an article to work on, removing the rest from your user page. Add your article to the class’s course page.
 * Compile a bibliography of relevant research and post it to the talk page of the article you are working on. (Some students may elect not to do this much.)
 * Talk about Wikipedia culture and etiquette, and (optionally) revisit the concept of sandboxes and how to use them.

Assignments due week 12, Dec 9

 * If you are starting a new article, write a 3–4 paragraph summary version of your article—with citations—in your Wikipedia sandbox. If you are improving an existing article, write a summary version reflecting the content the article will have after it's been improved, and post this along with a brief description of your plans on the article’s talk page.
 * Students may elect to work with classmates and other editors to polish a short starter article, fixing any major issues.
 * Handout: Moving out of your sandbox


 * Milestone
 * All students have interacted with Wikipedia, either in a sandbox or more ambitious editing of articles.

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