Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Concordia College/US Women's History (Fall 2020)

History 316HU is a dynamic, seminar-style survey of women’s history from the colonial era to the present. We will move through the chronology of US history to examine the broad themes that have shaped women’s lives. While tracing larger trends and identifying common experiences, we will also pay close attention to the specific experiences of individual women in order to shed light on the differences and divisions among them. As part of increasing understanding of women's experiences, students will work on improving Wikipedia articles related to US women's history.

Week 2
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.

READ and annotate online (using Hypothes.is, save to our class Hypothes.is group)


 * Five Pillars(an explanation of Wikipedia's basic rules and principles)
 * 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.)

If not accomplished during the class period, by the end of this week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 4
History

LGBT+ Studies

Women's Studies

Week 6
Gather the scholarly research material you will need for your article development &amp; editing!

Week 7
Review the &quot;adding citations&quot; training if necessary. Create a bibliography page in your sandbox, and develop an annotated bibliography of sources for your project work. See Rampolla, pp. 31-33.

Week 8
You should be gathering material to help you develop your stub into a strong article. Take notes! Make sure to indicate what is a direct quote and what is a paraphrase. Keep track of your sourcee citations carefully. Material in your sandbox is still subject to Wikipedia's policies, so do not copy and past information from your soruces into your sandbox without paraphrasing or quoting and citing. Careful research methods now will avoid problems with your Wikipedia contribution later.

Week 9
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 11
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.

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

Week 12
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

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!

Week 15


Assignment – Reflection and Presentation 

Once you have completed the above assignments, please write a 750-1000-word reflection about the experience, and prepare a 5-10 minute PPT (or alternative format you suggest to me) presentation to be shared with your colleagues in last week of class.

In the introduction, provide some background about your use of and opinion of Wikipedia before completing this project. You might address the following: How often did you use it? What did you use it for? What have you been taught about Wikipedia in your classes? What was your reaction to this assignment when you first heard about it?

In the body of the essay, walk me through your experience in a series of paragraphs, including an explanation of what you did in each of the steps. Tell why you chose the article stub(s) you did, what problems you encountered, what surprised you, what you learned, and so on. Describe your research process as you worked through the project. You may use first-person point of view here and throughout. For each edit you made, please provide a summary of your contribution (for example, “I recommended that a section on be added to the page for --- on the appropriate Talk page”).

Please be sure to follow up on your edits. If a fellow editor writes to you, please respond, and discuss those interactions here. If someone else removes your edits, please comment on why that happened.

Comment also on your own reaction to this assignment. What did you enjoy? What did you find difficult? What did you find most useful for this assignment? What could be done to improve it?

In the conclusion, return to your original opinion of Wikipedia. How has it changed? How might your use of the website change in the future? How did your expectations for the assignment differ from the outcomes? What did you learn about the construction of historical knowledge by writing your entry and linking it to other entries, and by tracking what happened to your entry. Feel free to also answer any of the “Guiding Questions” included in the Training Module Reflective Essay/Exercise.

When quoting or citing information from sources, please use Chicago format, as always.



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