Wikipedia:USEP/Courses/Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities (Kimberly Hoang and Diana Strassmann)

Course information

 * Rice University
 * Introduction to Poverty, Justice, Capabilities
 * Professors names: Kimberly Hoang and Diana Strassmann
 * Professor's Wikipedia username: . -->
 * Course start date: August 21, 2012
 * Assignment due date: Final Assignment due November 29, 2012

Course description
This course provides an introduction to the study of poverty, justice and capabilities. We consider theory and policy oriented towards improving human well-being in the US and internationally. Readings address not just material deprivations but also gender, racial and ethnic disparities, health status, education, human rights, and political freedoms.

Wikipedia assignment
A key requirement of the course is the development of an approved contribution to Wikipedia, either a substantial revision of an existing article or a new article. Students will also review existing pages, write proposals for their contributions, participate in appropriate project groups, and provide additional contributions (such as to talk pages or edits of other entries). The assigned will be staged, with portions due at specific dates during the course,

August 28: Create Account and User Page

 * In class
 * Campus Ambassadors: Virginia White Joyce Chou
 * Basics of editing
 * 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: Video on creating an account, Talk pages tutorial video, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure, Wikimarkup cheatsheet, Sandbox tutorial
 * Assignments (August 28)
 * Create a Wikipedia account and create a user page.
 * Create a personal sandbox on user page


 * Milestone:
 * All students have Wikipedia user accounts, user pages, and sandboxes.

September 6-20: Exploring the Topic Area
explain your interest and possible revisions, 8-10 references (5 minimum), and then rank the topics in order from most to least desirable. One of these topics will become your final topic and the rankings may be used to form groups of two based on common interest (if you indicate you would like to work in a pair). If you know you want to work with a particular class member, you could submit the topic proposals jointly, indicating how you might split up the work.
 * In class
 * Handout: Proposed topics handout, Advice for choosing articles, Handout previous PJHC topics
 * Assignment (due September 6):
 * Prepare a list of 2-3 potential topics. For each topic, supply a few sentences to

September 12-20: Topic Proposal

 * In class
 * Assignment: Proposal
 * Discuss the range of topics students will be working on and strategies for researching and writing about them.
 * Handouts and videos: Referencing handout, Referencing: Wikicode handout, Plagiarism handout, Citing sources tutorial video, RefToolbar citation tool tutorial video
 * Assignment (due September 20):
 * Submit proposal of final topic.

October 1-4: WikiProject and Article Discussion Contributions

 * In class
 * Discuss the range of topics students will be working on and strategies for researching and writing about them.
 * Instructor and/or Campus Ambassadors talk about Wikipedia culture & etiquette.
 * Q&A session with instructor and/or Campus Ambassadors about interacting on Wikipedia and getting started with writing
 * Assignments (due October 4) Article Discussion & WikiProject Contribution
 * Add Username and Article to Course Page
 * Assignments (due October 4)
 * Contribute to a WikiProject.
 * Contribute to an article discussion.

October 6-23: Initial Contribution

 * In class
 * Discuss working with sandboxes and continue contributing to discussion pages.
 * Assignment: Initial Contribution to Mainspace
 * Handout
 * Moving into main space
 * Assignments (due October 23)
 * 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.
 * Draft a version of your entry and upload to the wikipedia main page by October 23


 * Milestone
 * All students have started editing articles or drafts on Wikipedia/sandboxes.

October 23-25: Page Promotion

 * In class
 * Handouts: Page Promotion Assignment Submitting articles to Did You Know
 * Assignments (due October 25)
 * For new article: write a "Did you know" hook and upload to wikipedia
 * For pre-existing articles, add links to your page on other wikipedia pages where appropriate


 * Milestone
 * Students have made their page known on broader wikipedia

October 26: Workshop entry

 * In Class
 * Handout: Workshop Entry Uploaded to Owlsapce
 * Assignment (due October 26)
 * Upload PDF versions of your entry to Owlspace; highlight changes or describe changes in a separate word document
 * E-mail PDF versions of your entry to peer-review group

Thursday November 1: Mandatory Workshop Class

 * In class
 * Peer review and editing of sandbox articles.


 * Milestone
 * All articles have been reviewed by others. All students have reviewed articles by their classmates.

November 1-13: Revised Article Contribution to Wikipedia

 * Resources
 * | Good Article Criteria, | Good Article Nominations, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure
 * Wiki assignments (due November 13)
 * Revise entry according to peer comments, upload to owlspace

November 13-20: Ongoing and Updating Contributions

 * In class or outside of class
 * Uploading images, and adding images to articles
 * Handouts and videos: Uploading images handout, Uploading files to Wikimedia Commons video, Article assessments video, Evolution of an article video

November 20-29: Final Article Contribution to Wikipedia

 * In class


 * Assignment (due November 29)
 * Submit final article to Wikipedia including peer edits and ongoing revisions.


 * Milestone
 * Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading, and have submitted reflective essays.

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Student usernames
Student usernames should follow the ExampleUser format below.

Articles
This table will list each article that a student is working on, and which other students will be peer reviewers for the article.

Article banners
To mark each article the subject of a student project, add the following code at the top of the talk page for each article: That will result in the following banner (and make the articles easy to track):

=Helpful pages=
 * Getting started
 * Contributing to Discussion Page
 * Article creation wizard
 * Writing good articles
 * Referencing for beginners
 * Cheat sheet
 * Uploading Images

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