Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Asheville Buncombe Community College/American Government 120 (Fall)

I will be focusing on my continued efforts to expand the articles from survivors of the Holocaust as I've identified that as an under-represented area of Wikipedia. Passcode is 1234

The Social Science Department of AB-Tech and the North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians are excited to offer an “edit-a-thon” to provide hands-on training for using Wikipedia for research and editing articles to meet Higher Education standards. Kasey Baker, an AB-Tech’s instructor of Political Science and former Regional Ambassador for the Wikimedia Foundation, will teach participants how to critically analyze Wikipedia articles and contribute to Wikipedia pages.

The specific focus of this event will be to expand Jewish history of survivors of the Holocaust and the history of World War II. Featured guest and Holocaust survivor, Dr. Walter Ziffer, will join us as a fallow up to his lecture the evening before (at 6-8pm in Ferguson Auditorium on November the 8th).

This event is open to the public, students, faculty and staff and will be offered as professional development. Please RSVP as the event will be catered and a formal head count is preferred. Although computers are provided, we encourage participants to bring their own laptops.

Here are some other articles to edit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Holocaust_survivors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_ghettos_in_German-occupied_Poland?fbclid=IwAR29c4ktFPub8OzTeS_RLuOI9_EjJH0wF44lUDMsewzfGDFKxj80HhCXx3Q

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Axis_war_crime_trials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_the_Holocaust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_resistance_in_German-occupied_Europe

Here are some more featured people: https://www.yadvashem.org/remembrance/archive/2004/torchlighters.html

Some of the featured articles from this event are:

Walter Ziffer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ziffer

Solomon Radasky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Radasky

Magda Herzberger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magda_Herzberger

Week 9
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

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

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

What's a content gap?

Exercise
Add a citation

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Political Science

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 12
Guiding framework

Thinking about Wikipedia

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
 * Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Week 13
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Exercise
Add links to your article

Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

Week 14
It's the final week to develop your article.


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
 * Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.