Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Rutgers University - Newark/Anthropology Through Film (Fall 2020)

Anthropology Through Film introduces basic concepts of ethnographic film and links film content to models and methods of anthropology. Students will become familiar with and be able to describe the emergence of the genre of anthropological film, its key characteristics, ethics, and methods. They will discover how diverse communicative modes engage with visual content to deliver culturally-mediated messages. Students in the course learn to apply these models to identify the diverse perspectives involved in the production, consumption, and constitution of the &quot;anthropological eye. As the course develops, they increasingly will evaluate visual data to discover the extent to which visual media communicate anthropological insights in contrast to other forms of knowledge productions so that they can plan and justify visual media.

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. The guiding principle is to jump right in and get started!

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 Wikipedi

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 3
We will share what we find out about evaluating articles in Blog 3.

Week 4
Keep these questions in mind and jot notes based on what we've learned from surveying our films database in class, in looking at existing Wikipedia articles, and our films list as preparation for our next Blog assignment.

Cultural Anthropology

Films

LGBT+ Studies

Psychology

Women's Studies

Week 5
We will use our sandboxes. Goals include:  adding the outline structure to the article draft; drafting a lead for the article, and adding at least two bibliographic references that are from anthropology journals or edited books from academic publishers. It will look rough at this point. That's okay!

Week 6
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

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts. We get further into the process by working on the film synopsis (description of the story arc) and collecting notes in our Sandboxes on production and the background to the film.

Week 7
Guiding framework

Questions asked will be related to regular Discussion and Blog topics.

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed. Looking with fresh eyes at an article gives insight. Use what we've learned to date in the course to spot possible improvements to the article's specificity, tone, and content.

Week 8
There's an old saying that &quot;you can't edit yourself.&quot;  Fresh eyes spot what's needed! 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. Possibly feedback gives you an idea to improve. Add at least two changes to your draft based on the feedback.

Resources:


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

Week 9
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;   We carefully move our work, a few sentences at a time, into the mainspace. We'll still be using our sandboxes for drafting and preparing language to move to the main article. Focus on adding material where there are gaps in the coverage of a section of our article.

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. Explicitly edit the lead (does it work? Is it informative?, check the film synopsis (can a person get a sense of the story arc of this film from your description?) and build information useful for the film background.

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!

Remember to proofread information about the film production, your bibliographic references and citations, and check the links to related articles and work. Take a look at class members' articles and add to or improve at least one item in an article they are creating.

To be announced  - see regular course website on the main course menu.

Week 12
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading. All last minute contributions, edits, and changes to the articles are due by the end of day on Nov. 21.