Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Oregon State University/HST 310--The Historian's Craft (Fall 2018)

This is a required course for all undergraduate history majors at Oregon State University. Students learn writing, citation, and research skills and analyze both primary and secondary historical sources.

Week 5
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.)

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Evaluate an articleBe sure to evaluate an article of your choice in your sandbox to receive points for this week's exercises.

Week 7
Click on the Articles tab and select a topic from the list of black abolitionists that I have curated. All of these people either have no Wikipedia pages or minimal pages (stubs). It is a good idea to do some pre-research, such as a preliminary Google search on a person, before making your final selection. Be sure you have enough sources to write a short article.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 8
Exercise: Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Exercise: Copyedit your article

Week 9
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

Biographies

Books

Environmental Sciences

Films

History

Medicine

Political Science

Sociology

Women's Studies

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

To demonstrate this, you should write one brief paragraph (3 – 4 sentences) in your sandbox for your chosen Wikipedia article. Be sure to include at least one citation using the citation tool.

Week 10
Guiding framework

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

Week 11
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

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.

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.