Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/California State University, Sacramento/Medieval Art (Spring 2020)

This course is a history of medieval art that focuses heavily on the history of illuminated manuscripts. For the Wikipedia project, I would like students work on improving articles about medieval illuminated manuscripts.

Week 3
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 4
In this assignment you will chose an article on Wikipedia that is NOT the one you will edit for your project. You could purposefully pick a good article in order to get a sense for what you should try to emulate or you can pick a bad article in order to get a sense for what needs to be fixed in yours.

For this assignment, you'll be selecting a topic off of the list your instructor has compiled, writing a few sentences in your sandbox highlighting the major weaknesses of this article as it is now, and listing 2-3 sources on your bibliography page for the article. Note: this is the article that you will spend the rest of the semester working with and it is different from the article you will select to evaluate for this week's other assignment.

Week 5
We will go to the library today and work on adding content to Wikipedia. (the only thing due today are the attached training modules)

Week 6
Art History

This will be an in-class activity. The only assignment due is to carefully read the subject guide for art history.

Week 7
Step-by-step instructions for copying your Wikipedia article will be reviewed in class. There is also a handout explaining these steps uploaded to Canvas.

Your assignment this week is to email me (rachel.miller@undefinedcsus.edu) to schedule at least one meeting between Weeks 7 and 14! For bonus points, also schedule a meeting with Anna Harper, the arts librarian. ( https://csus.libcal.com/appointment/34541)

Week 8
Edit the article in your sandbox so that it has headings for all the sections and subsections that you plan to organize the information into. In addition, add five sources (books, journal articles, etc) to the Sources/Resources/Further Reading section of the article in your sandbox. If your article doesn't already have a Sources/Resources/Further Reading section, add one and make sure it has at least five sources.

Spend this week reading the sources you found, finding more sources, and beginning to edit. If you want some help, please attend the Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon at Sac State on March 13! More information to be announced.

Week 10
By this point, you should be accomplishing basic tasks like checking and correcting the existing facts in your article, adding citations to uncited facts, fixing the grammar and organization of the article. You must have added about 3000 characters (about 500 words) of new content to your article by this point.

Week 11
Guiding framework

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

Week 12
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. '''If you are behind, use this as an opportunity to catch up. If not, use this time to make sure you meet next week's goal of 1000 words and are getting close to a polished article! '''

'''You will answer some questions on Canvas explaining what you spent your time on this week. '''

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. '''You will submit an assignment on Canvas that explains what you did to respond to your peer review. '''

Resources:


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

Week 13
You must have added at least 6000 characters (about 1000 words) of new content to your article by this point! Other tasks to keep working on: doing more research and finding missing information, rewriting the lead section to represent all major points, reorganizing the text to communicate the information better, adding images and other media.

Week 14
After last week's assignment, you will recieve detailed feedback from your instructor. You must pay careful attention to this feedback and address all areas of concern for this week. You will not be allowed to move your work from the sandbox to the main Wikipedia space until these concerns are addressed. You may need to go through several rounds of feedback.

cResource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Once your instructor feels your article is ready to be moved, you must complete the final checklist, which your instructor will send you via email. Once you have checked over this list and taken care of the final details, you may move your article to the main Wikipedia space!

Week 15
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.