Wikipedia:Meetup/ETUG 2017 Edit-a-thon

As part of the BC Educational Technology Users Group 2017 Spring Jam, we invite you to join us for an Intro to Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. The focus of the Spring Jam 2017 is to bring participants together to share innovative approaches and processes used in designing for education and to work on real-world wicked-design problems/challenges. Wikipedia-based assignments can engage students in an authentic learning experience that involves open collaboration, critical thinking, and knowledge building for a global audience. When students write or edit in wikipedia, they are not using the same format or skills that they would in writing a research paper or persuasive essay – they are applying new strategies to produce knowledge that people will use in the real world and they are building digital literacies. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary.

Event Details

 * Date: Thursday, June 1st
 * Time:10:30am to 12:15pm
 * Location: ETUG Spring Jam, UBC Okanagan Campus

Participation
Planning on attending the event? Here's some steps you may want to take beforehand:
 * 1) Don't have a Wikipedia Account? Create one!
 * 2) Let us know that you are planning to participate by signing-up via the dashboard
 * 3) Look at the resources below
 * 4) Join us on June 1st

Editing Assignment
You will have about 45-minutes to choose an article stub and edit it in some way. This is your opportunity to take the perspective of a student as you throw yourselves into the editing process. Have fun and be bold!

Useful Guides

 * Wikipedia's Editing Tutorial: help with everything from formatting to citing sources.
 * Visual Editor: User's Guide
 * Article stubs for expansion: Top-level categories

Step 1: Choose your stub

 * Navigate to your subject area on the Article stubs for expansion: Top-level categories page
 * Find something in your discipline but try to choose a topic that you are not an expert in. Part of this process is putting yourself in the position as student.


 * As an alternative; use the Citation Hunt Tool to find an article with a missing citation.

Step 2: Consider how to improve it
Here are some options:
 * Organize by applying headings according to a standard article layout. See page 7 of your Instructor Basics guide.
 * Add a section. See page 7 of your Instructor Basics Guide for standard section types.
 * Find a notable reference and add a citation. See  Adding_a_new_reference Visual Editor: User's Guide
 * Add content.
 * Add some links. See Wikipedia's Editing Tutorial
 * Add an image: See Wikipedia: Uploading images.

Step 3: Edit, save and summarize

 * Review core content policies
 * Write an edit summary after you finish your edit and before you hit save. See Help: Edit Summaries.

Wikipedia Overview

 * Wikipedia: Plain and Simple
 * Wikipedia: Five Pillars
 * What Wikipedia is Not: a good general guide to start.

Guidelines and Policy

 * Core Content Policies
 * Wikipedia's Notability Guidelines: how to ensure that what you write is verifiable by readers.
 * Wikipedia's Notability Guidelines (related to Academics): additional considerations for notability when writing about professors/researchers.
 * Wikipedia's Guidelines for Biographies of Living Persons

Editing Support

 * General Wikipedia Editing
 * 10 Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia

Printable Guides

 * Case Studies: How Professors Are Teaching with Wikipedia
 * Instructor Basics: How to Use Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool
 * Editing Wikipedia Guide for Student Editors (Note: If you are not using WikiEdu, pgs 4-6 will be most relevant to you)
 * Illustrating Wikipedia
 * Evaluating Wikipedia
 * Other resources for students - including subject specific handouts.

Drafts and Publishing

 * Wikipedia Drafts
 * Moving out of your Sandbox: Creating an Article

Stubs

 * Wikipedia Stubs: explains what stubs are.
 * Stubs for development/expansion

Tools

 * Citation Hunt
 * Duplication Detector Duplication Detector

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