Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Temple University, Tyler School of Art/The Modern North (Fall 2019)

Through the course of the 19th century, Scandinavia and the Baltic Region underwent a transformation that is generally overlooked in canons of Art History. This course will consider movements beginning with German Romanticism, when Caspar David Friedrich studied at the Royal Academy of Copenhagen, to Scandinavian and Russian Modernism as they emerged before the Communist Revolution of 1917 and the end of World War I. We will consider issues like ethnic independence evident in Finnish avant-garde art and architecture and the development of Scandinavian modernism in design. Nordic Arts and the culture of the Baltic provides evidence of different considerations of nationalism, light, landscape, ethnic diversity, and contests goals about the aims of art that circulated in the West.

The course begins concludes with the move of the Bauhaus to Dessau in 1925, the Death of Stalin in 1924 and the completion of the Stockholm Public Library in 1928.

There are few textbooks that adequately cover this information and most of the literature is quite specialized. This Wikipedia assignment replaces a traditional research paper to build the accessible knowledge for not only the students in the class, but also for the public. It should also help to reduce your frustration as you tackle improving existing articles rather than trying to generate an analytic thesis without adequate foundations in the topic.

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.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 3
Art History

Biographies

Books

History

Women's Studies

Exercise
Add a citation

Week 4
Choose your topic / Find your sources

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.

Week 5
Thinking about Wikipedia

Week 8
Guiding framework

Week 9
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Week 10
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. There should be some modification of your draft based on input--you may consider asking questions for clarification.

Resources:


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

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.

Week 12
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 13
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!

Week 14
Guiding questionsThis is done on Canvas!

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