Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Concordia University, Montreal/Irish Migration in Latin America (Winter)

Course Overview

Irish adventurers, merchants, missionaries and settlers appear in the history of Latin America since the time of Christopher Columbus. This course on Irish migration to Latin America provides a survey of Irish migrants, their settlement patterns and adaptation in geographically distinct regions from the Caribbean to the Andes of South America. Irish men and women made their mark at every level of society in the Spanish colonies. Some notable personalities could be found at the heart of colonial power and administration and in subsequent anti-colonial struggles and the campaign to abolish slavery. The course explores multiple trajectories and biographies of Irish individuals through studying, for example, Irish participation in slavery and the slave trade in the Caribbean; European immigration and white colonization strategies in Cuba; early nineteenth-century frontier settlement in Argentina and Brazil; and the wars of independence in Chile, Peru, Paraguay and Colombia.

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.

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 3
Biographies

History

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

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 4
Guiding framework

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

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 5
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

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.

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 6
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.