Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Saint Louis University/Advanced Evolution (Fall 2022)

Students will add or significantly expand articles related to topics in Evolutionary Biology

Week 1
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.

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

Species

Week 2
Evaluate this article: write a brief synopsis of what the article did well and what it could improve in (read the mating section and reproduction section): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guppy#Mating

Submit via Canvas

Week 4
Make sure to OK with Kasey

Week 5
Annotate two articles that you will use for your Wikipedia project

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 6
8 articles to annotate

Week 9
Complete a first draft of your article for peer review in sandbox - do not add to wikipedia yet (we will do that after a round of peer review)

Add content and a citation to an article related to your topic. YOu only need to add a sentence or two!

Week 10
Guiding framework

Week 11
You have some feedback from other students. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes. Make sure to write a brief summary of the major changes you have made and why.

Resources:


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

Week 12
Provide further feedback on your peers' articles

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

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 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!

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Link your article to at least two other articles, and link at least 2 other articles to yours

Week 14
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.

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!