Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/UC Davis/ENL 194H (Winter 2017)

This is the home page for our Honors Seminar's Wikipedia assignment! See syllabus for details!

Week 1
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.

Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the &quot;Get Help&quot; button on this page.

To get started, please review the following handouts:


 * Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia


 * If you haven't already, create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.
 * It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.
 * When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate’s Talk page.
 * Take a look at 3-5 articles on Wikipedia related to your research project and bring the list with you for our class discussion on January 19th. Also make notes in your your sandbox. During class on the 19th, we will finalize your topics.

Week 2

 * Before class, review page 6 of your Editing Wikipedia guidebook.
 * In class today we will discuss what you learned in the first two training modules, and help each other finalize our topics.
 * Once you have your topic finalized, you should go to the Students tab above and assign it to yourself.

Week 3
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia. You'll evaluate your Wikipedia article, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page. We are carrying this assignment over into Week 4; note that it has a peer-review component that I added this week!


 * Complete the &quot;Evaluating Articles and Sources&quot; training (linked below).
 * For your topic, consider the following questions (but don't feel limited to these):
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?
 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * Make a section in your sandbox space where you can leave notes for yourself... don't forget to think about what you would improve in your Wikipedia article if you could!
 * Choose at least 2 questions relevant to the article you're evaluating. Leave your evaluation on the article's Talk page. Be sure to sign your feedback with four tildes —
 * Pose two questions about one of your classmate's articles, and list the title of the article you're &quot;reviewing&quot; on the dashboard next to the title of your own article Eavanh (talk) 23:47, 7 February 2017 (UTC).

Week 4
As part of your work this term, you will be asked to make an improvement to an article on Wikipedia. For the topic you chose, use your notes from  your article evaluation to draft up one to two changes you might make. Be prepared to come to class on Tuesday 2/07 to discuss your ideas! Don't forget to take all the assigned training modules as well!

Identify what's missing from the current form of the article. Think back to the skills you learned while critiquing an article. Make notes for improvement in your sandbox.

Your changes might include:


 * Removing old links or dead links from the reference section
 * Adding new citations
 * Re-writing a section that is particularly poorly written or hard to understand.
 * Adding 2-5 new sentences of content, backed up with a citation, to an area that could use improvement.

Don't forget that the bibliography you prepared last week can help you as you work to create new content for Wikipedia. What did the resources &amp; research you read have to say about the topic? Did that match up to how Wikipedia presents the information?

Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9

Week 5
If you feel comfortable and confident, go ahead and move your idea(s) &quot;live&quot;!

'''Editing an existing article? '''


 * NEVER copy and paste your draft of an article over the entire article. Instead, edit small sections at a time.
 * Copy your edits into the article. Make sure you are in the &quot;Edit&quot; or &quot;edit source&quot; view when copying AND when pasting your content. Make many small edits, saving each time, and leaving an edit summary. Never replace more than one to two sentences without saving!
 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 12 to see how to create links from your article to others, and from other articles to your own. Make sure there are links to 3–5 other articles, and links to your article from 2–3 other articles on Wikipedia.