Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Princeton University/Linguistic Universals and Language Diversity (Spring 2019)

This course is a hands-on exploration of language variation. Each student will choose a language to work with throughout the semester, based on the availability of a high quality descriptive grammar for the language, and on the impoverished state of the existing Wikipedia page for that language (if there is one). The end-of-course project will be for each student to edit and add to the existing page on their chosen language, relying mainly on their grammar but also on other published sources, if there are any.

Week 2
Welcome to our Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page will guide you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment over the semester, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

We will touch base about the Wikipedia assignment in class every Tuesday.

Note that you should NOT yet be looking at the Wikipedia page for your language---I will make it very clear when it is ok to do so.

Our course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Your first assignment is to review the following PDFs, and bring questions to class on Thursday February 14.


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

This week, everyone should create a Wikipedia account.

Week 3
Once you've created an account, you should 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.)

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Linguistics

Week 5
Remember that you can always reach out to our Wikipedia Expert if you have questions by using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Make sure to read: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Look carefully through the following Wikipedia language pages, which are similar (at least in parts) to the sort of page you will be creating and should give you some idea of how your page should end up looking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palauan_language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huave_language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechan_language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashaya_language

Apart from one more in the last week of class, you have finished the Wikipedia training modules!

Week 6
Start working on your language's Wikipedia page, as if it didn't exist (which indeed it may not). Note that at this point you still should NOT have looked at your language's Wikipedia page, and you should continue not to.

You should aim to finish the lead and phonology sections this week, though you won't be turning this in until the complete draft is due (April 8).

Week 7
Now that you have completed most of the Wiki Ed trainings, and are starting to write up your own language page, here are some prompts to get you reflecting on the process so far. I recommend taking a few notes about these for yourself this week, as they will be helpful when our Wikipedia presentation comes around at the end of the semester.

Reflecting on what you've learned about Wikipedia:


 * What was it like to complete the trainings? Were there any that were particularly helpful (or unhelpful)? Are there skills/is there information that you feel you are still missing?
 * Has anything in the trainings or that you've learned about Wikipedia surprised you so far?
 * Has your new role in interacting with Wikipedia changed the way you think about Wikipedia and/or the way you consume the content on Wikipedia?
 * How has doing Wiki Ed trainings/assignments alongside our usual lectures/practicums been going? Have you found it is supporting what we're doing in the core part of the course, or has it been a distraction?

Reflecting on the process of building a page:


 * Are you excited to get working on your page? Are you nervous? Intimidated? Do you feel ready?
 * Have you found it easy to interact with the visual editor function when building your page?
 * How has looking at the sample language pages helped you plan out your page? Are there things you think these pages do particularly well, or particularly poorly?
 * Is creating this page giving you a set of more meaningful interactions with your grammar, as you go back and check/re-check the information you've already collected, but with a new persepctive/goal?

Continue working on your language's Wikipedia page, still as if it didn't exist. You still should NOT be looking at your language's Wikipedia page.

You should aim to finish the morphology section this week.

Week 8
You have completed the first draft of your language's Wikipedia page, and it will now be sent out for peer review.

Continue working on your language's Wikipedia page, still as if it didn't exist. You still should NOT be looking at your language's Wikipedia page.

You should aim to finish the final section (syntax) this week, at the latest by the end of the day on April 8, at which point your draft will go out for peer review.

Week 9
Guiding framework

Peer reviews completed.

Week 10
You now have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate, clear, and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Additional resources:


 * Make sure to read: Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
 * Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

You have completed the second draft of your language's Wikipedia page, and it will now go to the instructor and grader(s) for review.

Week 11
At last!! Search Wikipedia for your language. If you can't find a page, or aren't sure if it's the right one, check with your instructor before proceeding any further.

Read your language's Wikipedia page thoroughly, several times. Make note of anything that comes up as you go, such as sources other than your grammar, details that conflict with what you've found, notable gaps that you'll be able to fill, etc.

You will receive feedback on your draft from the course grader and/or instructor by the end of this coming weekend, at which point you will start the process of incorporating your findings into the existing Wikipedia page for your language (if there is one), or bringing your page up to Wikipedia standards (if there isn't yet a page for your language).

Week 12
Now's the time to revisit the mock page you created, and use it to start working (in a new Sandbox) on the actual Wikipedia page for your language. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; or reorganize the text to communicate the information better.

Make sure to format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. And remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

Your article is not yet ready to move to the &quot;mainspace&quot;, where it will be live on Wikipedia. However, this training will prepare you to do this when the time comes (after you get feedback on your Dean's Date draft).

Read: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 13
It's the final full week to develop your article. The final draft is due on Dean's Date, May 14, by 5pm. After you receive your grade and feedback on this final draft, you will be able to take your article live.


 * 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 14
You have completed your final draft of your language's Wikipedia page! It is almost ready to go live, after one last review by the instructor and grader(s).

Week 15
Once you receive your grade and final feedback, do any final edits that you need to do, and take your article (edits) live!

Feel free to refresh your memory of how exactly to do this using the training in Week 13.