Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Northern Kentucky University/World Cultures (Spring 2020)

Course description: Survey of world cultures, primarily non-literate, using various anthropological approaches; development from simple to more complex cultural systems.

Assignment: Students will work in pairs to identify a content gap in a Wikipedia page about a non-western society or culture. Each pair with conduct research and write a contribution on missing information. This is their culminating research project.

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

Week 3
What's a content gap?

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.)

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Instructions for creating a Wikipedia account and joining this page are on Canvas.

Week 4
Cultural Anthropology

Meet in Steely Library to learn how to access authoritative sources

Week 6
Meet in LA 103

Exercise
Add a citation

Meet in Steely library to discuss research strategies

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 7
Complete this assignment using the page you want to add to as your assignment.

Remember, you should have completed preliminary research on your topic at this point. You should already have an idea of what authoritative sources exist for your topic.

Choose your topic / Find your sources

Week 8
Everyone has begun researching and writing their article drafts.

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 10
Your draft and a list of questions and challenges to be discussed in your conference should be posted to your Sandbox by this date.

Consider suggestions from professor and from your editing partner, 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 13
Draft to be complete in Sandbox for Prof evaluation. You will either be approved to make your work live to Wikipedia or given written feedback to improve your draft.

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

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!

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 14
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 15
Guiding questions

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