Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Temple University/Technology and Culture (Fall 2019)

This course critically examines the nature, role, and significance of new communication technologies in contemporary (largely) U.S. culture. It considers the relationship between these technologies and popular conceptions of work, leisure, art, knowledge, identity, and environment and thus provides a foundation for understanding the nature, role, and significance of new communication technologies as a dynamic factor in society. Students will be editing (or creating) entries on some of the authors whose work we read as well as articles related to course topics.

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

By Sunday evening (11pm) everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 2
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.)

Week 3
What's a content gap?

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Week 4
Thinking about sources and plagiarism

You can either Choose your topic / Find your sources from a list your instructor has prepared for you or you can choose your own subject by going through the exercise and training above.

Week 5
Cultural Anthropology

History

Sociology

Exercise
Add a citation

Week 6
Copyedit an article

Week 7
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 8
Continue working on your article drafts

These will be made available to your classmates for peer-review

Week 9
Thinking about Wikipedia

Guiding framework

Week 10
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed. Submit via a word .doc on Canvas using the template Dr. Shaw sends you.

Consider your peers' and professor's suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes. You may also in your &quot;talk&quot; page of your sandbox respond generally to comments from the peer review process.

Resources:


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

Exercise
Add links to your article (But do not do the part that asks you to link to your article from other pages).

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. Review training modules as needed. 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
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, added links and media as possible, and finalized the contributions, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Guiding questions

Guiding questions

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