Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Eastern Washington University/Stream Ecology (Fall 2020)

This course covers the ecology of flowing waters (stream and rivers), including their role in global cycles of matter and energy, transport of nutrients and other materials, and interactions among the organisms that live in them.

Students will work in groups to create or edit Wikipedia pages on topics related to freshwater ecology as part of the WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography (WP L&amp;O; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Limnology_and_Oceanography).

Week 3
Welcome to our class' WikiEdu page! This week we will get oriented to working with Wikipedia and think about goals and topics.

Mon, Tues: review resources below and complete training modules

Weds: group formation, class discussion, topic review

Friday: complete journal entry (in Canvas)

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Limnology_and_Oceanography

Please complete these trainings before our class discussion Wednesday.

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Everyone should be in a workgroup.

Week 4
1. Complete the &quot;Keeping Track of your work..&quot; training.

2. Under &quot;My Articles&quot; assign yourself your group's topic following the directions in the training.

3. For &quot;Evaluate Wikipedia&quot; please look at the article for your assigned topic. Please complete the edit requested at the end of the exercise.

4. Find 2 potential sources for you topic, and add them to the &quot;Bibliography&quot; for your page, following the directions in the training.

5. Complete the journal entry for this week.

Week 5
1. Complete the Plagerism training linked above.

2. Please find 3 more sources for your group's article, and add them to the sandbox bibliography. I will review these submissions through the Wikipedia dashboard.

4. As a group, develop a plan for who will write what, and submit the plan via Canvas.

5. Complete the journal entry for the week.

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

Science Communication

Species

Week 6
1. Complete the training for this week.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 7
1. Complete the &quot;adding citations&quot; training.

2. Continue adding text in sandbox.

3. Complete journal entry.

Week 8
1. Complete article draft text.

2. Review group's entire draft article for consistency, accuracy, spelling and grammar.

3. Complete journal entry.

Week 9
1. Review 2 articles from other class groups. Articles will be assigned to you for review.

2. Complete journal entry.

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.

Resources:


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

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!

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

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