Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Courses/History and Systems of Psychology57APSWI988/Timeline

Week 1: Wikipedia Essentials

 * In class


 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
 * Handout: Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation)


 * Assignment (due week 2)
 * Read Five pillars, an explanation of Wikipedia's basic rules and principles for Weekly Assessment 1 (1/24)
 * Create Wikipedia account by 1/26.
 * Handouts and videos: Video on creating an account, Account and user page creation handout

Week 2: Article quality

 * In class


 * Enroll in APSWPI project after creating Wikipedia account
 * Use "edit" to add your username to class page Students area.
 * Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good & bad articles
 * Tips on finding the best articles to work on for class assignments
 * Handouts and videos: Talk pages tutorial video, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure, Wikimarkup cheatsheet
 * Assignments (due week 3)
 * To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, leave a message for a classmate on their user talk page. (due before class 2/2)
 * Find any article at all, but preferably something you're interested in and know a good amount about, and post some suggested edits to its Talk page. (due before class 2/2)

Week 3: Exploring the topic area, editing basics

 * In class
 * Basics of editing
 * Handout: Advice for choosing articles
 * Assignments (due week 4):
 * Research and list 3–5 articles on your Wikipedia user page that you will consider working on as your main project. (due by start of class 2/9)

Week 4: Using sources

 * In class
 * Handouts and videos: Referencing handout, Referencing: Wikicode handout, Plagiarism handout, Citing sources tutorial video, RefToolbar citation tool tutorial video


 * Assignment (due week 5)
 * Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with a citation to an appropriate source, to a Wikipedia article related to psychology. Due by start of class 2/16.

Week 5: Choosing articles

 * Assignments (due week 6)
 * Select an article to work on.
 * Compile a bibliography of relevant research and post it (by start of class 2/23) to the talk page of the article you are working on. Your bibliography should contain at least four scholarly sources. Of those four sources, one may be a textbook, but the other three should be primary research. When you post on the talk page of your article, feel free to introduce yourself and say what you're doing before listing the sources ("I'm editing this article as part of my History & Systems of Psychology course at Shenandoah University, in conjunction with the APS Wikipedia Initiative..."). Be sure to sign your post with four tildes, which shows your username to other users. Begin reading the sources.

Weeks 6 & 7: Revising articles

 * In class
 * Sandboxes and how to use them.
 * Uploading images, and adding images to articles
 * Video resource: Sandbox tutorial
 * Handout: Moving into main space
 * Handouts and videos: Uploading images handout, Uploading files to Wikimedia Commons video, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure (handed out originally in week 2), Article assessments video, Evolution of an article video
 * Assignments
 * Continue research in preparation for expanding your article. You should add at least 750 words of new text (correctly written, cited, and formatted) to your target article.
 * Finish first round of revisions to your target article; move into main space if in sandbox (by March 6th)

Week 8: Topic Presentations

 * In class
 * Your group presents on your topic, its history, and the evolution of your article.
 * Select two classmates' articles that you will peer review and copy-edit. (You don't need to start reviewing yet.)


 * Assignments (over Spring Break, due by start of class 3/22)
 * Peer review two of your classmates' articles. Leave suggestions on the article talk pages.
 * Copy-edit the two reviewed articles.

Week 9: Getting and giving feedback

 * Assignments (due 3/27)
 * Make edits to your article based on peers' feedback.

Week 10: All done for now...
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