Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Linfield College/Environment, Society, and Culture (Spring)

This course introduces students to important ideas in the sociological and anthropological study of human-environment interactions. In particular, it covers major theories and concepts related to sustainability, food production and consumption, environmental justice, disaster, risk and resilience, and environmental movements.

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

Week 2

 * 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 3
Take the &quot;Plagiarism&quot; training linked below.

Choose an article from the Category:Sustainability article list or another Wikipedia article related to the course.

Read through it, identifying potential holes, gaps, or inaccuracies and summarize these in a 1-2 page reflection paper.


 * Was the article well written and complete?
 * If not, what changes should be made? What information seems to me missing?
 * Were there any gaps in the information provided or between the sections that impact the overall coherence of the article?

To get your feet with with editing a Wikipedia page, I encourage you to identify small ways to improve the language, such as fixing grammatical mistakes or clarifying confusing passages. Then, make the appropriate changes. You don’t need to contribute new information to the article at this point.

Week 5
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).
 * Read one of the following articles (or select your own article about an idea discussed in class or readings):
 * Ecological resilience
 * Food desert
 * Food security
 * Slow Food
 * Local Food
 * Food industry
 * Ecosystem services
 * Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
 * Overshoot
 * Ecological Footprint
 * Carrying Capacity
 * Overconsumption
 * Triple Bottom Line
 * Genetically Modified Food[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_supported_agriculture


 * While you read, consider some questions (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?
 * 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?
 * Create a section in your sandbox for your notes. You can use these later to help as you decide how to update and improve the article you choose.
 * Choose at least 2 questions relevant to the article you're evaluating. Leave your evaluation on the article's Talk page. Be sure to sign your feedback with four tildes — Pipertownsend (talk) 06:08, 19 May 2017 (UTC).

Week 6
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation or making a small improvement to an article. There are a few ways you can do this:

First, pick an article from the list of &quot;available articles&quot; on the Articles tab and assign it to yourself. If you don't see one you want to work on, consider browsing Wikipedia or one of these stub lists and selecting your own topic. Once you have one picked, head to the Students tab and assign yourself your chosen topic.


 * Category:ecology stubs
 * Category:biology stubs
 * Category:environment stubs
 * Category:culture stubs
 * Category:sociology stubs

Second, read and evaluate the article using the skills you learned last week. Identify one idea or perspective that's not being covered in the article and draft up a contribution to include. You can draft up your ideas in your sandbox.

Third, edit the article and make your contribution. At a minimum, add 1-2 sentences to and cite that statement to a reliable source, as you learned in the online training.

Week 8
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).
 * Find a few new articles on Wikipedia that you might want to improve and evaluate them.
 * While you read, consider some questions (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?
 * 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?
 * Create a section in your sandbox for your notes. You can use these later to help as you decide how to update and improve the article you choose.
 * Choose at least 1 questions relevant to the article you're evaluating. Leave your evaluation on the article's Talk page. Be sure to sign your feedback with four tildes — Pipertownsend (talk) 06:08, 19 May 2017 (UTC).

Week 10
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation or making a small improvement to an article. There are a few ways you can do this:

First, pick an article from the list of &quot;available articles&quot; on the Articles tab and assign it to yourself. If you don't see one you want to work on, consider browsing Wikipedia or one of these stub lists and selecting your own topic. Once you have one picked, head to the Students tab and assign yourself your chosen topic.


 * Category:ecology stubs
 * Category:biology stubs
 * Category:environment stubs
 * Category:culture stubs
 * Category:sociology stubs

Second, read and evaluate the article using the skills you learned last week. Identify one idea or perspective that's not being covered in the article and draft up a contribution to include. You can draft up your ideas in your sandbox.

Third, edit the article and make your contribution. At a minimum, add 1-2 sentences to and cite that statement to a reliable source, as you learned in the online training.