Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/USC/Race and Racism in the Americas (Fall 2019)

Students will develop a public history contribution in which they will incorporate your analytical, research, writing, and creative skills to be part of the Boyle Heights Museum upcoming exhibit, “Tradition of Innovation.&quot;

Throughout the first part of the course, this assignment will require to complete a series of online trainings, activities, and assignments that culminate in the researching, drafting, editing, and publishing of a Wikipedia article that directly relates to a particular place, event, person of interest, or theme that will be part of this exhibit. Class-members will be selecting article topics/themes will be pre-selected by the instructor.

New articles or editing of existing articles that are not included in the initial article list will have to be proposed by approval to the instructor.

This project will be supported with the content covered in course readings, lectures, and class discussions that examine how race and racial orders create place, in this case Boyle Heights in L.A.

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.)

Week 2
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 3
What's a content gap?

History

Exercise
Add a citation

Choose your topic / Find your sources

Week 5
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 6
Guiding framework

Thinking about Wikipedia

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

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.

Week 7
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

Nominating your article for Did You Know

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 8
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!

Week 9
Guiding questions

Week 10
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.