Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Poverty Justice and Human Capabilities (Diana Strassmann)/Page Promotion

Wikipedia Page Promotion
Due: Monday, March 25th, 11:59pm

Wikipedia is built on connections between articles and the linking infrastructure is what helps users navigate to and discover new information. Therefore, it is imperative that your contribution be connected to other pages as well as noticed by other users of Wikipedia. For this optional assignment, you will promote your page in one of two ways.

Did You Know Hooks (for new entries)
(This option is due by March 23rd or 5 days after initial contribution is uploaded to Wikipedia.)


 * For new pages, you will write a “Did you know” hook. “Did you know” hooks appear on the main Wikipedia home page and highlight interesting facts from new pages.


 * NOTE: “Did you know” hooks must be submitted within 5 days of the creation of a new article or be written about a page that has been expanded fivefold (usually from a stub). Submitting a DYK hook requires that you engage with other Wikipedia editors in a discussion that will likely result in requests for improvement to the article. For this reason, DYK hooks are considered optional and extra credit. Follow this link for an example of a student-submitted hook:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Personality_judgment


 * Nomination process:


 * 1.    Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rjanag/Quick_DYK_2 for step-by-step on screen instructions


 * 2.    Click on “Nominate at T:TDYK”


 * 3.    Open the “Template talk: Did you know#How to list a new nomination” link


 * 4.    Follow the on screen instructions in the yellow and orange form


 * 5.    As the on screen instructions indicate, fill out the nomination page template (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:NewDYKnomination ) :::NOTE: you only have to fill out the relevant portions of this template; for example, if you are not including an image, leave this line blank


 * 6.    Write a good hook


 * a.    Remember to begin the hook with "... that", to end it with a question mark, and to link the article title within the hook and make it bold.


 * b.    The hook should be fewer than 200 characters


 * c.    The hook should refer to established facts


 * d.    The hook should be neutral


 * e.    The "Did you know?" fact must be mentioned in the article and cited with an inline citation since inline citations are used to support specific statements in an article. Many submissions fail to meet one or both of these criteria.


 * 7.    After you have created the nomination page, list it at this page by finding the appropriate date and adding  under that date at the top of the section found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Did_you_know (above all the other nominations, but below the section header and hidden comment).


 * 8.    Screen shot your completed nomination.


 * 9.    Upload your screenshot to OWL-Space with the file name PagePromtion.doc/.jpeg/.pdf/etc Monday, March 25, at 11:59pm.

Additional Page Linking (For Revised Entries)
For expanded pages, you will edit 3 other topic pages that appropriately relate to your topic by adding 1–3 sentences about your topic and a link to your page on these sites. This uses one of Wikipedia’s central characteristics—internal linking—to make topics related to this course more visible on Wikipedia. This task requires you to first identify 3 other topic pages that would benefit from a link to your own page. On each of those pages, find a way to work in a small amount of new material that permits you to add an appropriate link to your page. Such edits with links will increase the breadth of information on both the pages with the new links as well as increase traffic to and knowledge about your own topic page.


 * 1.    Identify 3 topic pages that are related to your topic, but do not yet have an appropriate link to your topic.


 * 2.     Consider how those topics most clearly relate to your topic and identify a way to make this connection known on those topic pages.


 * 3.    Edit the additional pages by adding 1–3 sentences about your topic on them in a way that fits in with the existing flow of the page.


 * 4.    Be sure to link  link text to your page in the midst of your edits.


 * 5.    Repeat this process for a total of 3 additional pages.


 * 6.    Take a screenshot of each change that you make and copy these screenshots into a Word document.


 * 7.    Upload to OWL-Space with the file name PagePromotion.doc by Monday, March 25, at 11:59pm.

Proposed topics by Diana Strassmann is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.