Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Georgia State University/GLOS 4220 Refugees & Forced Migration (Fall 2019)

This course provides an understanding of forced migration processes (the complex causes, characteristics, and consequences of displacement), of the “refugee problem” (how international policy-makers and scholars have constructed displacement as an object for analysis and action—and some of the consequences of this construction), and of undocumented migration (how and why people cross borders outside the law and how the state views and treats these migrants). The course will pay particular attention to the ways social relations and identities at various intersecting levels are influenced by displacement. Groups of undergraduate students will work together to enhance, update, or write a Wikipedia article related to assigned readings for the course.

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

Week 4
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 5
Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 7
Thinking about Wikipedia

Exercise
Add a citation

Week 10


Team assignment:



You will receive your team and topic assignments in class. To start your online work together, all team members should create a section in their sandbox space listing their team and linking to their other team members' userpages.

TEAM TOPIC / ARTICLE


 * Review page 6 of your Editing Wikipedia guidebook.
 * Find the article your team has been assigned from the list of &quot;Available Articles&quot; on the  Articles  tab on this course page. One team member should click  Select  to assign it to themselves. Other members of the team should also assign themselves the same topic. Make sure you are all logged into the course page on your own devices and head to the My Articles section on the home tab. Then assign yourself your teams topic.
 * Identify one member of your team whose sandbox space you will work in to draft your article. Make a note in each of your your individual sandbox spaces of where your team will be drafting your work, and leave a link to the team space.
 * In your team's sandbox, write a few sentences about what you (individually) plan to contribute to the selected article.
 * Read through the whole article and quickly come up with one or two ideas of how you might improve it.
 * Compile a list of relevant, reliable books, journal articles, or other sources. These may come from the required reading for the course or elsewhere. Post that bibliography to  the sandbox where your team will be working.

Choose your topic / Find your sources

Books

Cultural Anthropology

History

Political Science

Sociology

Women's Studies

Exercise


It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. Evaluated your team's Wikipedia article and leave suggestions for improving it in your sandbox.


 * Complete the &quot;Evaluating Articles and Sources&quot; training (linked below).
 * Create a section in your sandbox titled &quot;Article evaluation&quot; where you'll leave notes about your observations and learnings.
 * As you read, consider the following questions (but don't feel limited to these):
 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Evaluate an article

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Week 12
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.


 * Once your group has a Wikipedia article to work on, make sure everyone in the group is assigned to that article on the Students tab of this course page.
 * Wikipedia doesn't handle multiple people editing from different devices at the same time very well. If you're working together in person, one person should add the work to the Sandbox. If you are all working independently,  make small edits and save often to avoid &quot;editing conflicts&quot; with classmates . Make sure that you're logged in under your own Wikipedia account while editing in your classmate's sandbox to ensure your edits are recorded.
 * Don't create a group account for your project. Group accounts are prohibited.

Week 13
It's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

In preparation, you can also review the  Sandboxes and Mainspace online training.

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 14
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!

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
Guiding questions

Guiding questions

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