Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/North Carolina State University/Delftia (Fall 2020)

To better inform our projects and use of techniques, we need to review the literature and contribute to it. We want to be a community of scholars finding, verifying, and refining knowledge. To do so, all participants of the class will contribute to the edits to the Delftia pages.

Week 2
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.)

Begin a blog about your experiences. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, or reflect on the research and writing process. Create at least one blog entry each week during the Wikipedia assignment.

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 4
Evaluate your WikiEDU experience by creating a blog post.


 * Describe your experience this week. What did you enjoy? What did you learn?
 * Why does it matter? Was there any risk?
 * What did you learn about yourself? How does this experience connect to your broader goals? What would you change?

Guidelines for posting to the Delftia Hub

Checklist before posting

Post about your experience every week. Help us and others learn about this experience, and what to improve!

Think about these questions! We'll have a discussion next week.

Week 5
Ideas and literature for topics/headings for the D. acidovorans Wiki article.

Delftia acidovorans Topics

While logged in, click the &quot;Assign myself an article&quot; button in your &quot;My Articles&quot; section on the Home tab. This will bring up a list of articles your instructor has selected. When you find the one you want to work on, click Select to assign it to yourself.



Alternatively you can select an article by viewing the list at the &quot;Available Articles&quot; portion of the  Articles  tab and clicking Select. If you are working in a group, be aware that only one group member can select the topic via this method; the remaining group members will need to assign the article via the  Home  tab.

Environmental Sciences

Science Communication

Week 6
Hello all! Just wanted to summarize where we should be this week to make sure everyone is on the same page.

Last week, we picked our Delftia topics to research and write about. Fill out the spreadsheet to let us know what topic you are working on. If you don't see the Wiki page you want to work on in assigned articles, email me (lfedere@undefinedncsu.edu). ''Note: Most of the class will be working on Delftia and Delftia acidovorans. If you choose another Delftia species,  you'll likely be working alone or with just a few people. ''We also had a meeting about plagiarism, the slides are posted below.

This week, you should be exploring literature in your topic area and beginning to draft your contributions to the Wikipedia page. You should start organizing your findings with an annotated bibliography. Everybody's goal should be to have 5 primary sources about Delftia in the annotated bibliography by the end of this week. This will help you organize your findings and citations.

While exploring literature, annotate with Hypothes.is! This will help us organize our thoughts, compile literature, and work together to find and verify information in our sources. Join the Delftia group with this link: https://hypothes.is/groups/jb8AZ8xy/delftia

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Resource: Plagiarism Presentation Slides from last week's meeting

Week 7
Add your name to your chosen topic on this Google Sheet. If you are interested in a topic not listed, feel free to add it!

Feel free to work together with a classmate on a topic, but no more than 2 students per topic please! The exception is gold biomineralization--this is a big topic and might need 3 or 4 students.

Sign up for your topic here.

Summarize your five chosen sources.


 * Use this exercise to practice your citations!


 * Because we're working in groups, the bibliography and article sandbox will appear &quot;owned&quot; by the first person assigned to that article. Create a header with your name to separate your work from others!

This week is drafting! We are all excited to start editing Live Wiki, but I'm going to remind us one more time: '''Draft in your sandbox! '''We're going to peer-review and evaluate our drafts before going live, and this important step can prevent accidental plagiarism or mistakes!

Where to edit? On your home page, scroll down to the &quot;my articles&quot; section. Click Bibliography to edit your annotated bibliography. Once you've finished this, you can click Sandbox and start editing with your group!

The page you put your bibliography should have the URL

User:Username /Article name / Bibliography

The page you edit your article with your group should have the URL

User:Username / Article name

Let me know if you have any trouble finding the proper locations!

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 8
Guiding framework

Week 9

 * Forgot to include this in the email, but CHECK THE LINKS to make sure they work, don't use the NCSU proxy, and have the relevant information.
 * Evaluate the sandbox draft of your assigned review article.
 * Put your comments in the space for your individual review. No edits to the article sandbox this week. The URL should resemble  wiki.org/User:dimisitque/Delftia lacustris/dvnorman Peer Review.
 * You can just type up your comments, or copy and paste the draft into your review space and comment this way. Dealer's choice!
 * FYI: Last week, there was a module for peer review. Filled with good info and lots of prompts for evaluating drafts.

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

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.

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

Week 10
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.

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!

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