Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Paradise Valley Community College/IFS201-37547 (Fall)

Students will be investigating Wikipedia as an open access resource. They will use their research skills to evaluate and edit entries and will also learn about citing sources and plagiarism.

In class on 10/20
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.

Discussion
Thinking about Wikipedia

Resources:

 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Week 2
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.) Once your account is created and your enrolled on this course page, please take the trainings assigned here.

First, take the &quot;How to edit&quot; training.

Second, select your article to improve this term. To do so, follow this exercise:

Choose your topic / Find your sources

Then, evaluate your article, looking for ways you can improve the existing content. The &quot;Evaluating articles&quot; training above should be completed before the exercise.

Evaluate your article

Once you've evaluated your article, review the &quot;Drafting in the sandbox&quot; training and begin drafting your improvements. You can 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

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 3
Guiding framework

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.

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

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.

Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

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.