Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Siena College/Exploring Modern Topics in Plant Biology 2019 (Spring)

In this course, you will add a paragraph or two to existing Wikipedia pages dealing with various aspects of plant cell biology and physiology. The articles might be &quot;stubs&quot;, short articles, or articles that Plant Phys students contributed to in 2018. You will complete the online trainings, and pick your topics in the next 2-3 weeks. For the trainings, you will work individually. You will make you contributions working in pairs. you will make minor changes such as repairing links and making minor editorial/factual corrections to existing work. Later, again working in pairs, you will summarize key experiments in a recent journal article and add you findings to you Wikipedia pages. Prior to &quot;going live&quot; with your work, we'll be doing some in-class peer editing work, which I hope will result in a high(er) quality final product. As part of the you final exam, a take-home question, I'll have you read and summarize one another's completed pages. This will be a fun and engaging way to get cozy with interesting, cutting edge topics in plant 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, and be enrolled.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 3
What's a content gap?

Chemistry

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

Genes and Proteins

Species

Exercise
Add a citation

Week 5
go find a couple of articles. One should be a &quot;primary paper&quot;, and the other can be a review article. If you'd like, both of your sources can be primary papers. However, one source MUST be a primary paper.

Thinking about Wikipedia

Week 6
Let's figure out how the source material can contribute to your Wikipedia Article!

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Let's see what you've got!

On Friday, we'll have a 30 min peer editing session where you give one another meaningful, constructive input about their articles.

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.

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 7
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.