Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Glendale College/English 101 (Spring)

Students will be exploring dominant and alternative narratives of the city of Los Angeles, while learning essential skills research and writing skills.

Week 5
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 6
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.)

You will now begin a blog about your experiences. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, or reflect on the research and writing process. You will create at least one blog entry each week during the Wikipedia assignment. Please go to Canvas to see more details about this assignment and to submit it.

Week 7
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 8
Choose your topic / Find your sources

What's a content gap?

Art History

Cultural Anthropology

History

LGBT+ Studies

Women's Studies

Exercise
Add a citation

Copyedit an article

Week 10
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 11
Guiding framework

Thinking about Wikipedia

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

Week 12
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 13
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

Nominating your article for Did You Know

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 15
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 16
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

Guiding questions

Write a paper going beyond your Wikipedia article to advance your own ideas, arguments, and original research about your topic, as assinged on Canvas course page.

Week 17
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.