Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Appalachian State University/Petrology and Petrography (Spring 2021)

This course covers the formation and identification of igneous and metamorphic rocks, and their relationships to tectonics and earth history.

Week 6
Detailed grading rubrics and assignment guidelines are found on the ASULearn Lab page.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

You will make a Wikipedia account in lab today.

You must be logged in to this page (not just Wikipedia) to get credit for completing the tutorials. If you are not logged in, it will not record whether or not you have completed them!

Assignment guidelines are posted here.

Assignment guidelines and grading rubric are provided on ASULearn as well (Wikipedia: Page Structures, and Practice Editing).

Week 8
You must be logged in to this page (not just Wikipedia) to get credit for completing the tutorials. If you are not logged in, it will not record whether or not you have completed them!

Instructions for creating new pages

Instructions for editing existing pages

All grading rubrics and instructions for this assignment are found on ASULearn.

Week 11
Go to your assigned peer edit on the Wikipedia Dashboard.


 * Make suggestions in the person's talk page on their sandbox. Be sure to assess if the person has provided all the necessary information about their rock unit, if their overall formatting is correct (particularly important for citations!), if their tone is appropriate, etc.
 * You can edit small errors (such as spelling/grammar) directly in the sandbox, but for every error you fix you must hit Save and provide a description of what you fixed in the edit explanation. I know this process is annoying and time consuming, but it is proper Wikipedia etiquette.

Guiding frameworkSee ASULearn for grading rubric and expectations.

Week 13
Please incorporate all comments/edits/suggestions from our individual meeting, from your peer editor, and from the Wikipedia editors (if they make any). Include your images, update citations, be sure your formatting is correct, etc.

Basically everything should look exactly like how you want it because now is the time to... move it to the mainspace!

The grading rubrics are provided on ASULearn.

Read Editing Wikipedia (page 12) to see how to create links from your Wikipedia article to other Wikipedia articles, and from other Wikipedia articles to your own article.


 * 1) Provide at least 2 links to your page from other pages. Be sure to include edit summaries on those other pages when you link to your page. These can be local place-based pages or geology-based pages (i.e. other formations which might underlie or overly your rock unit, relevant orogenic events, etc.). You should also do a search of Wikipedia for your rock unit to see where it is listed but not linked to, and then link those words back to your page.
 * 2) Provide at least 10 different links to other pages from your page. Relevant pages are specific .  Irrelevant pages are to things like “United States” or “Kentucky” or “geology&quot;
 * 3) Add your page to at least one category. To do so, go into edit mode and click on category at the bottom of the page. A box will pop up with potential categories. Type in some keywords (i.e. &quot;Cambrian geology of Virginia&quot; or &quot;igneous petrology of Montana&quot;) to get category listings.
 * 4) Update any relevant chronostratigraphy links or other group links (optional; will depend on your rock unit).
 * 5) Add an Infobox rockunit template to the top right of your page and fill it out as appropriate for your unit.

Week 14
Answer the following questions on ASULearn:


 * 1) What did you learn about Wikipedia during the first article evaluation assignment (the one where you looked at something that interested you) that you didn't realize before? Did it make you look at the topic in a new way?
 * 2) Did your edits on that first article remain throughout the semester or have they since been removed by someone else?  If they were removed by someone else, what reasons were given?
 * 3) In the time since you have made your rock page live, has it received feedback or edits from other Wikipedia editors outside of this class? If so, how did you respond to and handle that feedback? If you did not receive comments/edits from other editors, just say &quot;N/A&quot; here.
 * 4) What did you learn from contributing to Wikipedia? Was it harder or easier than you thought it would be?
 * 5) How does a Wikipedia assignment compare to other projects you've done in the past for other classes?

You will receive full credit for complete, detailed, thoughtful responses.