Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Behavioral Ecology (Joan Strassmann)/2014 Assignment4

Behavioral Ecology Wikipedia Assignment 4 Due 2 October 2014 Get back to course page

WikiProject Assignment 4
Peer review of 3 articles

Behavioral Ecology, Biology 472, Strassmann

In this assignment you will review 3 entries by other students that are not in your group.

When is it due? Thursday 2 October 2014 11:59 PM

What is it worth? It is worth 60 points out of the 700 total for the entire Wikipedia assignment.

What exactly do I turn in? You turn in a document on Blackboard named Wiki2Oct.doc with the following:
 * 1. Your name.
 * 2. The honor code.
 * 3. Names and links to the 3 entries you review. You must choose them by signing up on the main course page. Edit “Table of Articles” under the “Timeline” section on the Wikipedia course page. We have an example up there of how you should add your name. Make sure the table looks okay after you add your name!
 * 4. A clear description of what you have changed, what we should look for.

What do I do? By now you should be fairly comfortable with editing on Wikipedia. This is your chance to help out your fellow classmates, and shine yourself. It is also a chance to read more broadly than your single chapter, even if it is just out of the textbook, or Mockingbird Tales. Use your expertise to read your classmates’s entries. Feel free to add material, edit material, and put comments on the talk pages. It is hard to give a specific rubric as to what you should do, because you will encounter variable entries. What you should do is improve them. You can do this by adding material that is missing, by editing the writing or organization to make it more clear, and by contributing to the talk page. Look again at the criteria for Good Articles, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_criteria, and think about where this one meets the mark or falls short. Of course, besides these criteria we have specific interests in improving the behavioral side of the entries.

Should I add headings in the Wikipedia entry? Yes, if necessary. Headings are valuable and your perspective may point to additional headings that may be needed.

Can I change areas of the Wikipedia entry on this organism that are not behavior? Yes, you can change anything you like on this or other organisms. You may add things that are missing like geographic distribution, diet, taxonomy, appearance, or links to Wikimedia photos, for example. Anything you add should follow the Wikipedia principles, hold a neutral tone, and be well referenced. Remember, the more words we add, the more likely our class will shine among all Wikipedia classes.

Do I have to actually change something on Wikipedia? Yes. Add your modifications to the appropriate page. Include the course banner (see the bottom of the course Wikipedia page for directions), if it is not already there. Briefly describe what you have done on the talk page of each of the articles you peer review.

Rubric
For each article:

60 points in all 20 points per article, x 3 articles

Note: If you forget to include the honor code when you turn in your assignment on Blackboard, you will lose 5 points!