Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Indiana University Northwest/H232 The World in the 20th Century (Spring 2017)

Week 1
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.

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.

To get started, please review the following handouts:


 * Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Read through the required textbook pages and research on three of the topics here from the textbook and provide brief comparisons with three wikipedia entries on similar topics: 1) President Wilson's international order, 2) Lenin and the Russian Revolution and the world order Lenin envisioned, 3) how the US and the USSR came to dominate the post World War II world, 4) the rise of nationalism and decolonization; 5) How did the US and USSR, wartime allies, become enemies; 6) How third world countries were recruited into the communist or capitalist camps; 7) problems with Societ society; 8) anti-Communism in the US in the 1950s. (500 words total, due in IUN Canvas assignment through Canvas Syllabus)


 * Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.
 * It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.
 * When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate’s Talk page.

Week 2
Read through the required pages, research on three of the topics here, and provide brief comparisons with three wikipedia entries on similar topics: 1) What is Keynesian economics and how has it impacted the world; 2) What was the Bretton Woods system and how did it work along with Keynesian economics theory; 3) How did the US transform Japan during the occupation; 4) How did Europe recover from WWII; 5) How did American economy do after WWII and how did mass consumption develop; 6) How did American culture and economy influence Europe. (500 words total)

It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.


 * Complete the &quot;Evaluating Articles and Sources&quot; training (linked below).

Week 3
Read through the required pages, research on three of the topics here, and provide brief narrative on each: 1) How did China turn Communist; 2) Describe the revolution in Vietnam; 3) Describe the trials of independent governance in India; 4) How did the Philippino government fare. (500 words total)

Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article. There are two ways you can do this:


 * Add 1-2 sentences to a course-related article, and cite that statement to a reliable source, as you learned in the online training.
 * The Citation Hunt tool shows unreferenced statements from articles. First, evaluate whether the statement in question is true! An uncited statement could just be lacking a reference or it could be inaccurate or misleading. Reliable sources on the subject will help you choose whether to add it or correct the statement.

Please complete this assignment and submit the url of the entry you edited along with your week 3 homework assignment on Canvas. Submit the url in the main text, after your three sets of comparisons.

Week 4
First set of wikipedia project due at 10:59pm on Sunday Feb.5 central time. Find three wikipedia entries from the nine you explored in weeks 1-3, and make small changes to them. Capture your changes in screenshots and upload them to project Canvas site, along with the changes in a copy of word document. Follow all wikipedia bibliographic procedures. Please include the urls of all your Wikipedia edits in Canvas under &quot;First set of three wikipedia editing projects.&quot;

Week 5
Read through the required pages and research on three of the topics here and provide brief comparisons with three wikipedia entries on similar topics: 1) Describe the policy choices of the Soviet Union under Krushchev; 2) Describe policy choices for the US; 3) Describe the Cuban missile crisis; 4) Describe the escalation of war in Vietnam; 5) Describe protests around the world including in the US. (500 words total)

Week 6
Read through the required pages and research on three of the topics here and provide brief comparisons with three wikipedia entries on similar topics: 1) Economic stagnation in America and Europe; 2) Describe the development of regional cooperation in Europe; 3) how Japanese economic took off; 4) development of environmentalism; 5) rise of feminism; 6) criticism against unequal treatment. (500 words total)

Week 7
Read through the required pages and research on three of the topics here and provide brief comparisons with three wikipedia entries on similar topics: 1) How China fared under Communism; 2) How Communism continued to develop in south Vietnam; 3) How radicalism developed in Guatemala; 4) the Cuban revolution; 5) decolonization in Africa and legacies of colonialism; 6) economic nationalism in Iran; 7) nationalism and leadership in Egypt; 8) colonial crisis in Algeria. (500 words total)

Week 8
Second set of wikipedia project due at 10:59pm on Sunday Mar.5 central time. Find three wikipedia entries from the nine you explored in weeks 5-7, and make small changes to them. Capture your changes in screenshots and upload them to project Canvas site, along with the changes in a copy of word document. Follow all wikipedia bibliographic procedures.

Week 9
Read through the required pages and research on three of the topics here and provide brief comparisons with three wikipedia entries on similar topics: 1) What was detente and what caused it; 2) Why did Gorbachev reform the Soviet system; 3) How did Communism end in the USSR? 4) Explain what causes helped end the Cold War. (500 words total)

Week 11
Read through the required pages and research on three of the topics here and provide brief comparisons with three wikipedia entries on similar topics: 1) Why did American economy transition to a more free-market one? 2) How did the Little Dragons--East Asian regions or countries develop economically following Japanese examples; 3) How did China open to the outside world and problems therein; 4) Describe tension in the US-Japan relationship; 5) Describe the rise of EU and the integration of east European former Communist countries. (500 word total)

Week 12
Read through the required pages and research on three of the topics here and provide brief comparisons with three wikipedia entries on similar topics: 1) What caused the Cambodian genocide; 2) Why did the Iranian revolution take place and the impact of the revolution; 3) What were the challenges to apartheid in South Africa; 4) Briefly delineate the Arab-Israeli wars of the 1960s-70s. What impact did these wars have on Arab-Israeli relations; 5) Explain violence in Guatemala. (500 words total)

Week 13
Third set of wikipedia projects due at 10:59pm on Sunday April 9 central time. Find three wikipedia entries from the nine you explored in weeks 9, 11, 12, and make small changes to them. Capture your changes in screenshots and upload them to project Canvas site, along with the changes in a copy of word document. Follow all wikipedia bibliographic procedures.

Week 14
Read through the required pages and research on three of the topics here and provide brief comparisons with three wikipedia entries on similar topics: 1) How the world becomes more integrated into a global community; 2) aspects of the global market economy today; 3) the downside of the global economy and society; 4) safeguarding global environment; 5) practice of human rights. (500 words total)

Week 15
Read through the required pages and research on three of the topics here and provide brief comparisons with three wikipedia entries on similar topics: 1) American hegemony after the Cold War; 2) Latin American economy and politics in recent years; 3) the rise of political Islam; 4) troubled spots in the world, such as the Middle East; 5) characteristics of Asian development, especially China's and impact on the world; 6) challenges faced by the EU; 7) the fall of Yugoslavia; 8) Russia's transformation into authoritarian country. (500 words total)

Week 16
Fourth set of wikipedia projects due at 10:59 pm on Monday May 1 central time. Find three wikipedia entries from the nine you explored in weeks 14 and 15, and make small changes to them. Capture your changes in screenshots and upload them to project Canvas site, along with the changes in a copy of word document. Follow all wikipedia bibliographic procedures.

Week 17
Fourth set of wikipedia projects due at 10:59 pm on Monday May 1 central time. Find three wikipedia entries from the nine you explored in weeks 14 and 15, and make small changes to them. Capture your changes in screenshots and upload them to project Canvas site, along with the changes in a copy of word document. Follow all wikipedia bibliographic procedures.