Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/UC Berkeley/Global Poverty and Practice (Fall 2020)

This is an assignment for a core course of the Global Poverty and Practice (GPP) Minor at UC Berkeley -- the course during which students prepare for their &quot;practice experience&quot; (PE). Each student will contribute to at least two Wikipedia articles – one focused on an aspect of the history/sociology of their PE site (eg. a country such as the U.S., Chile, Kenya, Malaysia ... or a city or region such as Lima, Peru or the San Francisco Bay Area); and the second focused on an aspect of key debates/approaches present in their PE sector (eg. water sanitation, community health, microfinance, worker-cooperatives, collective action, food justice, affordable housing).

Students enrolled in this course have been bringing material on global poverty and inequality to Wikipedia for five consecutive semesters (since Fall 2017) -- this will be the seventh.

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.

Week 10
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 13
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

Cultural Anthropology

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

History

LGBT+ Studies

Linguistics

Medicine

Political Science

Psychology

Sociology

Women's Studies

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Note: our final goal is craft a minimum of 500 words (or, 10-12 sentences) each, for area and sector articles (i.e. total 1,000 words).

Week 15
Craft your contributions in your sandboxes. In an opening line in each sandbox, provide your Peer Reviewers a legend -- that is, a way for them to know which text is yours and which text is part of the existing Wikipedia mainspace article (eg. bold face for your drafting, plain text for existing article, italics for sentences that you copyedited).

Guiding framework

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

Week 16
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.

Resources:


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

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 17
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 Wikipedia drafting.


 * 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!

Also submit a Summary Memo on bCourses. In it: (i) describe your Wikipedia plan (distinctly, for area and sector); and (ii) you summarize your drafting contributions in a bulleted list of brief phrases (eg. renamed 3 sections; added 3 sentences about xyz topic).

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