Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Concordia College/ART 365 Renaissance and Baroque Art (Spring)

This course provides a survey of Western European culture that explores the art of the 15th-17th centuries. Student lectures will cover major artists and artworks of the Italian Renaissance and western Europe of the Baroque era. For one of their primary assignments for the semester, students will research a topic in Renaissance and Baroque art history and will edit or create a Wikipedia page on this topic. Students will develop the skills to publish concise information on their topic by completing relevant training modules through WikiEdu. In addition, students will critically examine the art historical canon and Wikipedia as a publishing platform in order to understand how systematic bias enters into the process of knowledge creation and can create gaps in published information.

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

Add a citation

Choose a topic

Week 3
What's a content gap?

Thinking about Wikipedia

Week 4
Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Week 5
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page. If need be, review training modules, &quot;Drafting in the Sandbox&quot; and &quot;Moving work out of the Sandbox.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Art History

Biographies

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 9
How To Peer Review in Wikipedia

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

Week 10
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 11
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 13
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!

Guiding questions

Week 15
Make any final edits to your Wikipedia article. Articles must be finished by May 1st. Any edits made after May 1st will not be graded.

Week 16
Guiding questions

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