Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Behavioral Ecology (Joan Strassmann)/2014 Assignment7

Behavioral Ecology Wikipedia Assignment 7 Due 13 November 2014 Get back to course page

WikiProject Assignment 7
Revise and link Behavioral Ecology, Biology 472, Strassmann

When is it due? Thursday 13 Nov. 2014 11:59 PM

What is it worth? It is worth 100 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 Wiki13Nov with the following:

1. Your name. 2. The honor code. 3. Names and links to the 2 entries that you visit, add meaningful links to your entry, and modify as needed to make the link relevant. Please tell us where you have done this in the article. 4. A clear description of what you have changed in your article. 5. A sentence or two on your opinions of the Good and Featured articles you have looked at. 6. Three new articles you think should be nominated for Good Article, can be from the class or elsewhere. Please do not nominate them yourself, but let us know which ones should be nominated and why. You can modify those articles to bring them up to Good Article status. They may need help in areas not directly relevant to behavior, for example. By now you should be familiar with reading the refereed literature. This is where improvements should come from.

What do I do?

1. With this assignment, you keep modifying and adding to your previous work. You add links. You evaluate other work.

2. You also make it more part of the fabric of knowledge by visiting other sites and adding links to your entry at the other site. Do this for 2 entries, so you will have those 2 links into your site. These should be meaningful links. This means they should be on pages that are specific to your species or genera-- something that is unique to your species or genera that is not commonly found in other wasps. Do not just add a sentence in the middle of a coherent paragraph on these pages! Make sure what you've added flows and actually adds to the understanding of the page you've added it to! Include a citation if you are adding new information!

3. Find 5 articles as close as possible to your area that are Good Articles, or Featured Articles. Learn what they have that yours does not. Write a paragraph for Blackboard that describes what you have found. Here is a list of all the Good Articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles/Natural_sciences#Biology_and_medicine Here is a list of the Featured articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles/ Check out these in particular: cattle egret:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_Egret/ ruff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruff/ whit-winged fairywren: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-winged_Fairywren/ But your article will have much more behavior than these do.

In particular it might be useful to look at Good Articles and Featured Articles on animals.

4. Now you are more experienced as to what a Good Article is, fix your entry so it meets the GA standards. This may well involve adding content that is not behavior. This is fine. Here is the link to what a Good Article is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles/ Here is the link for a Featured Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles/

5. Please do not nominate your entry for Good Article if you feel it has reached this stage, but let us know if you think it should be nominated.

6. Find 3 other articles (could be from class or not) you think should be nominated for Good Article. Write a few sentences on why they should be nominated. Make any changes to make them fit GA status.

Grading Rubric
100 points