Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/St Francis College/COM 2000 - Mass Communication (Fall 2018)

Using freely licensed material produced by UNESCO, students will update Wikipedia entries related to mass communication.

Week 10
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.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

This week, you'll begin to discuss how the class can improve the Wikipedia entry on Mass communication.

Refer to the exercise for guiding questions.

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 11
Now that you've thought about ways to improve the Mass communication entry, begin looking for reliable, secondary sources to back up all and any additions you'd like to propose.

What's a content gap?

Week 12
The class will work collectively in Professor Gregory's sandbox. Navigate to this page to begin drafting.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 13
Thinking about Wikipedia

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.

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!

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.