Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Politics of Piracy (Kevin Gorman and Katie Gilmore)/Timeline/12

Hi all -

As we’ve talked about previously, we have a Wikipedia based assignment.

Basically, we’re looking for you to make a substantive contribution to at least one Wikipedia article that is broadly related to the theme of the course - the politics of digital piracy. Most of you have picked out your topics already as part of the midterm, but if as you progress through your editing you realize that you’d rather write about a different topic, talk to one of us and we’ll work something out.

Your contribution should be fairly significant -- more than just fixing a couple of typos. We’re not going to hand out absolute guidelines as to what ‘significant’ means, but if you’re uncertain you can always approach one of us about it.

Some examples of ‘significant contributions’:
 * 1) Any series of edits that expands the prose (not counting markup) length of an article by at least 400 words.
 * 2) Any series of edits that adds and uses at least two new physical (not online or googlebooks) sources to an article.
 * 3) Any series of edits that adds and uses at least three useful sources (online or physical) to an article
 * 4) Any series of edits that substantially improves the usefulness of an article.

The back cover of the booklet that we handed out earlier in the semester may be a useful tool to familiarize yourself with the slightly unusual markup language that Wikipedia uses. If you no longer have the booklet, an online cheat sheet is available here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet

As long as you are logged on through Airbears or another campus connection, you will have access to a number of academic journals that are restricted access and are very useful places to find sources. Some of the most useful of these resources include:
 * http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/
 * http://jstor.org
 * http://webofknowledge.com/WOS
 * http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=a9h

Other good research resources include our campus’s physical libraries and scholar.google.com.