Wikipedia:School and university projects/User:Piotrus/Fall 2014 glob

This page has information on planning and resources for the online writing assignment taught by Piotr Konieczny for the Hanyang University sociology of globalization.

The goal of this assignment is for several groups of students to choose an underdeveloped or missing article on Wikipedia, related to sociology of globalization during the duration of the course (3.5 months).

Introduction for students
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, is an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone. It has many millions (!) of editors (Wikipedians), many of whom are students like you. The vast majority of them are volunteers who find editing this site to be an enjoyable experience, even a hobby. Therefore I hope you will enjoy this exercise and the course! After all, there are not many exercises that tell you to do something that over a million people think is 'fun'. :)

Tutorial is the best place to start your adventure with this wiki. Please familiarize yourself with instructions for students and if you have any questions, check the FAQ/Editing or Help:Contents and if you cannot find what you are looking for, ask the friendly people at Help desk - or just contact me.

Before making any major edits, it is recommended that you create an account. You definitely need to have an account before attempting to do any wiki-related coursework (otherwise we will be unable to confirm if you have completed the exercise). After you create an account, if you know your group already, add your name to the relevant section of this page.

Remember that Wikipedia is not a project limited only to our university. We are guests here and we should all behave accordingly. Please make sure you read Wikiquette. Please try to think what impression you want other Wikipedians to have of our university — and of yourselves.

You should expect that the course lecturer, other students, your friends, and even (or especially) other Wikipedia editors (not affiliated with our course) will leave you various messages on your talk pages. When working on the exercises below, you should log in to Wikipedia and check your messages as often as you check your email (I strongly recommend you read 'as often' as 'at least daily'). Whenever you have a new message and are logged to Wikipedia, you will see a large orange message, 'You have new messages', on every Wikipedia page you access. To make this message disappear, you should click on it and read the message. Note that it is customary to leave new messages at the bottom of the talk/discussion pages, and to reply to somebody's messages on their talk pages. If you want to leave somebody a message, make sure you are editing their talk page, not their user page. Remember to sign your talk and discussion messages.

Some other useful tips: whenever you are done with an edit and want to save a page, fill out the edit summary box and view a preview of the page after your edit to make sure it looks as you actually want it to look. Only then click the "Save Page" button. You may find the page history tool and watchlist tools to be very useful when you want to check what changes by other editors have been made to the article(s) you are working on.

Please direct any questions to my talk page. You are welcome to send emails, or drop by to see me during our office hours, and ask about Wikipedia how-to; but please try to find the answer first on the Help:Contents.

Assignment
Now that you are familiar with the Wikipedia environment, it is time to jump into your assignment.

Project overview:

By the end of September, each student has to select a Korean Wikipedia (https://ko.wikipedia.org/) article related to globalization that does not exist on English Wikipedia. Over the next two months, you will translate this article from Korean to English Wikipedia. This assignment should be ideally finished by the end of November.

Week 3

 * Monday, September 15: each student has to chose the article she or he will be working on and inform me of their selection. You are required to come to my office and show me which article you have selected. You should also complete the Training/For students and enroll in our course here.. Completed those two steps gets you 5% of the assignment grade. To prove that you have completed the Training, you have to leave me a Wikipedia talk message saying you completed it; I'll then review your edits. If you successfully complete this step, I'll leave you a Wikipedia message on your talk page. If you do not receive such a message by September 16, it means you have not completed this assignment successfully.

Week 10

 * Monday, November 3: preliminary drafts have to be ready for review. Those drafts should be in your user draft space. You are required to come to my office so I can review your draft.

Week 12

 * Monay, November 17: final drafts should be ready for my second review; I will be providing ongoing feedback till final grading deadline. You are required to come to my office so I can review your final draft.

End of the course

 * Moday, December 20: articles will be graded by me.

Grading
This assignment is worth 10% of the final score.

Here is a description of quality classes for an article. What we are aiming is the B-class.

How to fail the assignment:
 * plagiarism, or extensive quotations

Students editors
Course instructor: User:Piotrus (Piotr Konieczny) Online volunteer: User:Revi

Student 1:


 * 1)    working on   on English Wikipedia translated from  from Koran Wikipedia

Student 2:


 * 1)    working on   on English Wikipedia translated from  from Koran Wikipedia

Student 3:


 * 1)    working on   on English Wikipedia translated from  from Koran Wikipedia

Student 4:


 * 1)    working on   on English Wikipedia translated from  from Koran Wikipedia

Student 5:


 * 1)    working on   on English Wikipedia translated from  from Koran Wikipedia

Student 6:


 * 1)    working on   on English Wikipedia translated from  from Koran Wikipedia

Student 7:


 * 1)    working on   on English Wikipedia translated from  from Koran Wikipedia

Student 8:


 * 1)    working on   on English Wikipedia translated from  from Koran Wikipedia

Student 9:


 * 1)    working on   on English Wikipedia translated from  from Koran Wikipedia

Individual extra credit edits
Extra credit edits (the students have the opportunity to earn extra credit with sociology-related wikipedia editing).

What to do for extra credit? Edit sociology related articles and inform the instructor; they will be graded just like the regular assignment. You can start new articles or improve the existing ones.

Some highlights:

Questions?
Post them at the discussion page of this article and/or email your course instructor!