Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University at Albany/Information Literacy in the Humanities and Arts (8W1)

Information literacy is often considered to be synonymous with the ability to do research, but it encompasses a great deal more. This course will address information literacy through the lens of metaliteracy, a wider conception that emphasizes your role as both information consumer and information creator in a collaborative, open environment. Expect to examine and expand your conception of how you interact with information. Metacognition, or thinking about one’s own thinking, is a critical component of being metaliterate, and will be emphasized throughout the course.

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. Make sure you include an email address when you set yours up. (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.)

Content from this module will be included in the weekly quiz.

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

If you have set yours up, you will be awarded 20 points.

Week 2
Clarification: You will be publishing your Sandbox Article Evaluation so I can see it. You will also be adding one well-considered question from your article evaluation to the Talk page of the article you evaluated, making sure to sign it with 4 tildes (it makes it easy doing it this way). See Blackboard for what you need to submit to me there.

Week 3
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 4
You will be adding the citation to the Wikipedia article you will be editing, as per the topic selection assignment of last week. You will most likely need to write text that you will place within the Wikipedia article based on your reputable source, and then you will cite the source. If you plan to create a new article from scratch, you will place the text and citation in a new section in your Sandbox.

I will be looking for 3 quality sources.

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9, &quot;How Plagiarism is Different on Wikipedia&quot;

You might find this page on  writing your first article helpful.

There aren't guides in all areas. I've selected the ones that might be useful depending on your article topic.

Biographies

Cultural Anthropology

Sociology

Women's Studies

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts. Depending on the quality and extent of your work, you will be eligible for up to 40 points.

Week 5
Guiding framework

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

Week 6
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 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

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. Review the grading rubric in Blackboard to help determine what to continue working on.

Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards.

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Read page 12 of Editing Wikipedia to see how to create links from your article to others, and from other articles to your own. Try to link to 3–5 articles, and link to your article from 2–3 other articles. ======

Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

Week 7
It's the final week to develop your article.


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
 * Make sure all of your work has been made live.
 * Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!
 * Check and recheck the grading rubric in Blackboard.

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