Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Louisiana State University/ENGL 2000 (Spring 2019)

This course is designed to improve the students' research and communication skills. Each student will complete a variety of writing, oral, and multimedia projects. For their Wikipedia project, students will select a WP article related to their individual research topic. They will analyze the article and suggest improvements, which may range from adding sources and new information to organizing the information already included in the article and clarifying the article's language. The exact set of improvements will be determined with the help of the instructor.

Week 1
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.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Find a research topic, start preliminary research, and discuss your topic with your peer group and the instructor.

Week 2
Submit a formal topic proposal and have it workshopped in class.

Using the tools and strategies you learned in class, collect reputable sources on the various aspects of your topic.

Week 3
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.)

Thinking about Wikipedia

What's a content gap?

Join LSU's Wikipedia ambassador Becky Carmichael for an interactive workshop on editing Wikipedia. Complete the training modules before the workshop.

Exercise
Choose a topic

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Week 4
Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Week 5
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

Exercise
Add links to your article

Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; make sure your citations are properly formatted; and add internal links to your contribution.

Guiding questions

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