Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Murray State University/News Editing (Fall 2019)

Students will select articles that are underdeveloped on Wikipedia and have significant coverage in reliable sources and will adhere to Wikipedia’s policies and norms for conduct, including completing training modules.

Purpose

Students will get the experience of editing, feeling of deadline and publication pressure and real-time editing process.

Learning Outcomes/Goals

The course learning outcomes pertaining to Wikipedia assignments are the following:


 * 1) Demonstrate mastery of grammar, punctuation, spelling and sentence syntax.
 * 2) Verify sources of information thereby increasing information literacy and maintaining neutrality.
 * 3) Edit for accuracy.
 * 4) Edit copy for the online platform.
 * 5) Edit copy according to legal and ethical issues, specifically plagiarism.
 * 6) Edit copy for bias and assessing neutrality.
 * 7) Engage in formal communication process to share ideas publically
 * 8) Demonstrate proficient application of rules in The Associated Press Stylebook.

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 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

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.)

What are your concerns about editing or performing edits for both your professor and professional editors? Were you able to identify some articles that might need editing? What kinds of articles do you imagine you might be interested in contributing to?

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

What's a content gap?

Exercise
Add a citation

Copyedit an article

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Week 5
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

Art History

Biographies

Books

Cultural Anthropology

Films

History

LGBT+ Studies

Political Science

Science Communication

Sociology

Women's Studies

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 6
Guiding framework

Thinking about Wikipedia

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

Week 7
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 8
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 10
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 11
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!

Week 12
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.