Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Psychology Senior Capstone (Greta Munger)/Timeline

Wikipedia Essentials

 * Wiki assignments (due April 6)
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
 * Create a Wikipedia account, create a user page, and sign up on the list of students on the course page.
 * To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself to one of the class's Online Ambassadors (via talk page), and leave a message for a classmate on their user talk page.
 * Handouts & videos:
 * Welcome to Wikipedia
 * Five pillars, an explanation of Wikipedia's basic rules and principles
 * Video on creating an account
 * Talk pages tutorial video
 * Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure
 * Account and user page creation handout
 * Wikimarkup cheatsheet

Details about choosing articles & initial draft

 * Wiki assignments (due April 20)
 * Research and list 15 articles on your Wikipedia user page that you will consider working on as your main project. Ask your class's Online Ambassadors for comments.
 * Critically evaluate an existing Wikipedia article related to the class, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's discussion page.
 * Compile a bibliography of relevant research and post it to the talk page of the article you are working on. Begin reading the sources.
 * 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.


 * Handouts and videos:
 * Referencing handout, Referencing: Wikicode handout
 * Plagiarism handout
 * Citing sources tutorial video
 * RefToolbar citation tool tutorial video, Sandbox tutorial
 * Uploading images handout
 * Uploading files to Wikimedia Commons video
 * Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure
 * Article assessments video
 * Evolution of an article video

Getting and giving feedback

 * Wiki assignments (due April 27)
 * Peer review two of your classmates' articles. Leave suggestions on the article talk pages.

Wikipedia style is really direct
Typical student sentence
 * “In a study done by Brown and Munger (2010), they manipulated whether the camera was rotating or translating through the scene and found larger representational momentum for rotations.”

APA rewrite
 * “Brown and Munger (2010) found larger representational momentum for camera rotations compared to translations.”

Wikipedia rewrite
 * “More representational momentum occurs for camera rotations compared to translations through a scene. ”

Example using journal article and secondary source (textbook)
Cite the journal article first, and then a textbook to back up a particular interpretation or conclusion. Preferably a specialized text, not from Psy 101. Here's an example of an opening definition of mental rotation.


 * Mental rotation is the ability to manipulate mental representations of two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects about various axes of rotation, with larger orientation differences require more processing time.

Quote boxes
Quote boxes can be used to add insightful and relative quotes using the Quote box template.


 * Sample usage:

This quote is used in Cyberculture.

Wikitext:

For the technically inclined, you may change the background color (bgcolor) to a different web color. The hex codes may be found at Web colors. Examples:
 * 1) FFFACD
 * 2) B0C4DE
 * 3) 7FFFD4
 * 4) 3CB371
 * 5) E6E6FA

To use, simply copy paste the above quote box, changing the quote and source. If you have any problems, provide the quote and source to User talk:Smallman12q along with the target article and section and he'll add it in.

You may see sample quotes, albeit made without the quotebox template, at iLoo, Fedspeak, and Nayirah (testimony) (all written by smallman12q).

Responding to feedback

 * Wiki assignments (due May 14)
 * Add final touches to you Wikipedia article. Try to address issues from Good Article reviews.
 * Write a reflective essay (2-5 pages) on your Wikipedia contributions.

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