Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Auburn University at Montgomery/English Comp II, ENGL 1020D--Wikipedia (Fall 2018)

You'll get a crash course in how to edit Wikipedia, how Wikipedia words, and how the community functions. Along the way you will write one article on a local topic, framed by the Alabama Bicentennial celebration, which is happening this year.

Week 1
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
Evaluate an article

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Thinking about Wikipedia

Week 3
Copyedit an article

Week 4
What's a content gap?

Exercise: add citation
Add a citation

Biographies

History

LGBT+ Studies

Sociology

Women's Studies

Week 6
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

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 7
Guiding framework

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.

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

Week 8
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.

Week 9
Nominating your article for Did You Know

Note: Put the template (“{{subst:NewDYKnomination...”) in your sandbox, not on the DYK nominations page. We’ll do that in class.

{{assignment|Assignment - Evaluation and quality control}} 1. Find a Featured Article (FA)

2. Go to the talk page and find the review that led to FA promotion (look for &quot;Featured article candidate&quot;

3. Summarize some of the issues and how they were resolved

4. Count the number of reviewers and discuss the depth of the reviews

5. Jot this down as a Sandbox entry

{{end of course week}}

Week 10

 * Wikipedia, the Last Bastion of Shared Reality


 * Gender bias on Wikipedia


 * Sexism on Wikipedia Is Not the Work of 'a Single Misguided Editor'

Week 11
Find three examples of vandalism; post the diffs in your Sandbox.

Look at List of hoaxes on Wikipedia. Find a fun one. In many cases the original article will be deleted and you can't see it, but you can see what's in the links, and you can google it, for instance &quot;doni kochev wikipedia&quot; (don't do that one, it's boring). Be prepared to discuss in class: what was the hoax? Why did it live so long?

Week 12
Read Reliability of Wikipedia. Find two recent articles (from a newspaper, magazine, or journal) that discuss Wikipedia's reliability and summarize, in your Sandbox, what their results were.

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 13
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!

Guiding questions

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