Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Bryn Mawr College/Urban Renewal and Neighborhood Change (Spring 2022)

This course explores physical, social, economic, and political aspects of neighborhood change, with a particular emphasis on the 1950-1970 urban renewal and interstate highway programs in the US. These large-scale government-led efforts will be compared with more incremental neighborhood change from neighborhood-based community development efforts, gentrification, market actors, and grassroots advocacy. The major assignment for this course is to substantially revise an existing Wikipedia article or draft a new Wikipedia article for a topic related to urban renewal. The topic must be one that is underdeveloped on Wikipedia but that also has significant coverage in reliable, scholarly sources.

Week 4
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.

Week 7
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

Cultural Anthropology

History

Political Science

Sociology

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 11
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

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

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.