Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Illinois Wesleyan University/Black Feminist Imaginings (Fall 2016)

As part of this course assignment we will work together to create the Wikipedia article about the Roxbury Murders.

Week 1
Welcome to our Wikipedia project's course timeline. As a class project we will work together to create the article about the Roxbury Murders for Wikipedia. Certain aspects of the assignment will be completed individually, some will be completed together in class, while others you will complete as a group. Please pay attention to all the help and guidelines here for each new weekly assignment.

This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.

Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the &quot;Get Help&quot; button on this page.

Before class, please review the following handouts:


 * Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia


 * Before class on Thursday, each of you should create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.
 * Take the following trainings.
 * Individually, review the article Death of Sandra Bland and the article Shooting of Megan Hockaday.
 * Create a new section in your sandbox space titled &quot;article critique&quot; write a full critique of these articles in your sandbox space, using the tips you learned in the online training. You may use these questions to guide you (but don't feel limited to these):
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?
 * 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?
 * Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * What kinds of sections does the article include? What kind of information might be needed in other articles of this kind?
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 2
As a class, we will work to draft a new article about the Roxbury Murders. Before class on Tuesday, please complete the following:


 * In your sandbox, write a few sentences about what kinds of information we might want to include in this article.
 * Think back to when you did an article critique. What sections do we need? What internal Wikipedia links might we want to include? How might we categorize this article?
 * Compile a list of relevant, reliable books, journal articles, news coverage or other sources. Post that bibliography in your sandbox.

We've picked our topic and found sources. Now it's (almost!) time to start writing.

'''Creating a new article! '''As a class, we should select one student who's sandbox space we will draft our article in.

Today in class, we will discuss the notes &amp; citations we've each prepared in our sandbox spaces. Together, we will come to an agreement on what 4 (or more) sections (after the lead) we want to include in the article. During class, the student who's sandbox we will work in will create an outline for the article in their sandbox, clearly labeling each section.

Section 1: The Lead


 * A &quot;lead&quot; section is not a traditional introduction. It should summarize, very briefly, what the rest of the article will say in detail. The first paragraph should include important, broad facts about the subject. A good example is Ada Lovelace. See Editing Wikipedia page 9 for more ideas.

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Week 3
As homework this week, each of you should take the &quot;Sandboxes and Mainspace&quot; &amp; &quot;Plagiarism&quot; trainings below. You should also visit our group sandbox space and add any relevant resources you've found into your section. Make sure your name and your partners name are located in your section title.

Week 4

 * Begin transforming your section into a complete first draft. Your section should include 2-3 references and 1-2 paragraphs of content. If you don't have enough sources to complete this requirement, please talk to your instructor.
 * Try and make sure that each member of your group is contributing something individually. Wikipedia tracks the edit history of each username, so we will be able to track which students have contributed and which haven't.
 * Each of you should individually take the sources and citations training.
 * If you'd like a Content Expert to review your draft, now is the time! Click the &quot;Get Help&quot; button in your sandbox to request notes.

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 5
By midnight on 11/13 we should all have our full section draft complete. In class on Tuesday, we will review the article together as a whole.

'''Creating a new article! '''


 * Before class, try to review the Sandboxes and Mainspace online training.
 * Discussion about the draft, what's good, what's not so good, what can we make better? What have we learned so far?
 * As a class we will review Editing Wikipedia page 13, and follow those steps to move our article from our group Sandbox to Mainspace. (The owner of the selected sandbox space will be the one to make the official move!)

Week 6
Just because the article is live doesn't mean we can't continue to make it better.

Spend some time doing additional research and writing to make further improvements to your section, based on suggestions from class last week and your own critique.


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 12 to see how to create links from our article, and from other articles to our own. Try to link to 1-2 other Wikipedia articles in your section.

Week 7
It's the final week to develop our article.


 * Before class today, read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list for the assignment. Is there anything else we can do to our article to make it better?

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