Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Cottey College/Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Spring 2019)

The Wikipedia portion of this course requires that students apply what they have learned from our course material to Wikipedia content critically as readers and editors. The larger classroom course spans the Spring semester, but their Wikipedia assignment for this course is in the last three weeks of the course.

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

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Biographies

Cultural Anthropology

History

LGBT+ Studies

Sociology

Women's Studies

Week 4
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 posted their ideas for their projects in eLearning (April 23) and given feedback to others (April 25). Everyone has ideally begun writing their article drafts.

Week 5
EVALUTING EXISTING ENTRIES and ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Assignment due by Thursday midnight in eLearning.

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.

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!

Guiding questions

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