Wikipedia:Rice University/Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities (Fall 2014)/Expanded contribution

Due Date: 9 pm Tuesday, November 4
The next step for your Wikipedia contribution is to expand it further and revise it in response to classmates and Wikipedia user feedback. Your expanded contribution should be a minimum of 2000 words, not including references.

As this assignment is an intermediate step in the overall assignment, students who produced more polished work for the initial contribution will have less work than students whose contributions need more work or who changed their overall plans for the entry.

1. Review advice Begin by carefully considering the suggestions you have received from your classmates, campus and online ambassadors, and any comments posted to your Project and Talk pages by other Wikipedia editors. You should click the “watch” button for both the article and talk page for each article you contributed to. As before, be sure to continually check the article’s Talk page and any WikiProject Talk pages for user feedback and suggestions.

2. Revise and expand your contribution Revise and expand your contribution according to the advice you have received highlighting new changes subsequent to your Initial Contribution in GREEN. (This means parts that you edited/added initially should remain highlighted in yellow.) If your page has been changed or moved by other Wikipedia editors, include a description of those changes in your narrative.

3. Double check that all assertions are appropriately supported As noted in various materials and in class, make sure you attribute claims to specific authors and studies in the text using in line citations where appropriate rather than just supporting specific assertions with footnotes. See the various materials previously provided on citations, references, and avoiding plagiarism. Make sure that your article does not follow the structure of any sources or use close paraphrasing, without exactly following Wikipedia standards on how to do so.

4. Check permissions Check to make sure you have the requisite permissions for any images or illustrations. Review the “Illustrating Wikipedia” guide at this link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Illustrating_Wikipedia_brochure_%28Wiki_Education_Foundation%29.pdf

4. Consider seeking advice from an online ambassador, the teahouse, or other Wikipedians Students who seek such advice generally report that they have received invaluable suggestions.

Submission Instructions
The following 3 items must be submitted to OWL-Space AND emailed to each member of your 2nd workshop group by "9 pm Tuesday, November 4". Be sure your name is included on each document.

Given the tight timing before the workshop, there will be NO extensions this time around. Plan to complete your work early so that you can deal with any last minute snags that may come up.

a. A PDF (or PDFs) of the sections of the article you have contributed to, with the new changes you have made highlighted in GREEN (keeping older changes in yellow), entitled ExpandedContribution.pdf


 * Do not include large amounts of extraneous text created by others.


 * Follow the instructions given in Assignment 5 for labeling multiple attachments, creating PDFs and screenshots, etc.

b. A separate file that describes any new changes you have made and that also describes concurrent work or changes made by other editors, entitled ExpandedContributionDescription.pdf (or .doc/.docx)

c. An outline of your article, showing with track changes all sections you have edited, deleted, or added, entitled ExpandedContributionOutline.pdf. (or .doc/.docx) d. Optional: If relevant (see below), your good article nomination banner, entitled GoodArticleNomination.pdf (or .doc/.docx)


 * Be sure to include page numbers (in Word documents) and to proofread and double-space all text, except the outline, which may be single-spaced. For PDF entries, be sure the font size is large. The font size must be large enough to easily read when the PDF is printed. When printing your Wikipedia contributions, use the "print preview" to save them as PDFs. Points will be deducted for items that do not follow these instructions.

(Optional) Good Article Status Option
At this stage, you may consider nominating your article for Good Article Status. If you opt to seek Good Article status you must remove the nomination at the end of the semester if your article is unreviewed; or alternatively, you must commit to following up on the review after the end of the semester. (Not responding to reviews provided by Wikipedia editors to Good Article review nominations is disrespectful of the time the editors put into their reviews and suggestions.)

Good Articles are articles that meet a high quality standard and have been approved by members of the Wikipedia community. If you choose this route, you will self-nominate your article for Good Article review and a Wikipedia editor may eventually provide your article with a review and feedback. The independent Wikipedia review process may take weeks or months and therefore achieving Good Article status is not required for the course.

First, peruse the Good Article Criteria. Then go to the Good Article Nominations page and follow the on-screen instructions for “How to Nominate an Article.” Once your nomination is complete, take a screenshot of your talk page with your good article nomination banner. Save this as GoodArticleNomination.pdf. Your efforts in nominating your article (if appropriate) will be taken into account in your final project grade.