Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/CSU Northridge/Linguistics 403 MORPHOLOGY (Fall)

This course introduces students to the conceptual framework(s) underlying linguists' study of the nature and system of word structure (and, the very notion of 'word' itself).

We are not editing entries; we are making mini-studies of the process. Why? Because there is something to learn about the field (morphology and linguistics) from looking at how linguistic scholars and researchers—both established and apprentice—are thinking about issues you’re beginning to address yourself. Wikipedia represents a range of critical knowledge, but it also provides a window onto the dynamism of the fields it treats.

Week 1
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.

Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the &quot;Get Help&quot; button on this page.

Week 5
Your first Wikipedia page discussion is due today.

To prepare for your next assignment, please join this course page, using the enrollment link provided. You should be able to join with your already existing Wikipedia username.

Then, please review the following handouts:


 * Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia
 * and take the &quot;Wikipedia essentials&quot; training, linked below.

When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate’s Talk page. You can view a list of other students enrolled in this course on the Students tab above.

Week 8
Second topic(s) list for Wikipedia assignment due.

For help selecting your article, you can review the list of Linguistic Morphology stubs here and lists of other, more developed articles about linguistic morphology here. The article(s) you select for this assignment should be different from the one you selected last month.

Some other places you might consider looking

Subcategory of Linguistics—Linguistic typology

“Featured” Articles in language and linguistics (these are “grade-A”)


 * Bengali Language Movement
 * Black American Sign Language
 * Chinese classifier
 * Decipherment of rongorongo
 * Gwoyeu Romatzyh
 * Irish phonology
 * Mayan languages
 * Nafaanra
 * Nahuatl
 * Rongorongo
 * Sentence spacing
 * Swedish language
 * Tamil language

WikiProject Applied Linguistics

WikiProject Linguistics

The Linguistics Portal

Theoretical Linguistics stubs

B-Class theoretical linguistics articles

C-class Linguistics articles

Week 9
Please complete the trainings (if you have not already) between now and next week, and select and post an article that you want to evaluate. There is a list at week 8, just above. Do  try to focus on morphology relevant topics when you look at the categories provided.

Week 10
You have completed your first Wikipedia assignment (on paper).

To start, please have completed the &quot;Wikipedia Essentials,&quot; the &quot;Sandbox and Mainspace,&quot; and the  &quot;Evaluating Articles and Sources&quot; trainings, linked below.

Once you have taken the trainings, please write something--a message to me about your article choice would be perfect--on your &quot;Talk page.&quot;  Ultimately, you will post your responses to this second evaluation in your Sandbox. You can title this section of your sandbox &quot;Wikipedia discussion/evaluation assignment 2&quot; - please be sure to link to the article(s) you're evaluating. But you can draft it on your &quot;Talk&quot; page.

So, I want you to have some practice with the &quot;Sandbox.&quot;  We will not be creating an article or even editing an existing one. So, there won't be something you'll need to move out of Sandbox onto a main page. Still, because anyone can see our individual sandboxes, it's important to be polite and intellectually ethical, citing sources you use in some way, and being respectful of the article you're working on. You can can practice (i.e., draft your assignment) on your own &quot;Talk&quot; page; we each have one. You'll see its tab when you log in.

Just be careful not to write (not yet, not for this class, in any case) on the article's Talk page.)

Remember that the bullet points below comprise the topics I would like you to discuss.


 * Check the &quot;Talk&quot; page of the article you've selected. What is the level of importance (or quality) assigned to the topic? What is the class-level of the article, and what reason(s) did you find for that “grade?”
 * Is there a focus for the comments, or are there several? What are the issues that the comments address.
 * Select two of the issues, and summarize the discussions. How does the discussion relate to what you have learned, or feel you know about the issue? Is there resolution? How does the language on the actual page relate to the talk about it?
 * How do the article and discussion relate to our treatment of the topic—in our reading and in our discussion? Did we address it at all? If so, did we do so in ways consistent with the understanding in the article or the talk page? You may find agreement with some of the discussants and disagreement with others.
 * What is your sense of the discussion? In other words, what do you conclude is most convincing or explanatory? Why? (i.e., what reasoning led you to draw the conclusion you have drawn?)

Week 11
This is the week that Discussion #2 is due...in your Sandbox. We'll keep talking about this all.

Week 12
Third topic(s) list for Wikipedia assignment due.

For help selecting your article, you can review the list of Linguistic Morphology stubs here and lists of other, more developed articles about linguistic morphology here. The article(s) you select for this assignment should be different from the one(s) you selected in previous months.

Some other places you might consider looking

Subcategory of Linguistics—Linguistic typology

“Featured” Articles in language and linguistics (these are “grade-A”)


 * Bengali Language Movement
 * Black American Sign Language
 * Chinese classifier
 * Decipherment of rongorongo
 * Gwoyeu Romatzyh
 * Irish phonology
 * Mayan languages
 * Nafaanra
 * Nahuatl
 * Rongorongo
 * Sentence spacing
 * Swedish language
 * Tamil language

WikiProject Applied Linguistics

WikiProject Linguistics

The Linguistics Portal

Theoretical Linguistics stubs

B-Class theoretical linguistics articles

C-class Linguistics articles

Week 14
Use the skills you've developed over the last two assignments to make your best reflection yet. Again, you should draft your discussion in your sandbox. You can title this section of your sandbox &quot;Wikipedia discussion assignment 3&quot; - please also be sure to link to the article(s) you're evaluating.

This time, though, please also review the  handout to help you frame your work. Then, reply to the following questions again.


 * Check the &quot;Talk&quot; page of the article you've selected. What is the level of importance (or quality) assigned to the topic? What is the class-level of the article, and what reason(s) did you find for that “grade?”
 * Is there a focus for the comments, or are there several? What are the issues that the comments address.
 * Select two of the issues, and summarize the discussions. How does the discussion relate to what you have learned, or feel you know about the issue? Is there resolution? How does the language on the actual page relate to the talk about it?
 * How do the article and discussion relate to our treatment of the topic—in our reading and in our discussion? Did we address it at all? If so, did we do so in ways consistent with the understanding in the article or the talk page? You may find agreement with some of the discussants and disagreement with others.
 * What is your sense of the discussion? In other words, what do you conclude is most convincing or explanatory? Why? (i.e., what reasoning led you to draw the conclusion you have drawn?)