Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of California Berkeley/IB35AC Human Biological Variation (Fall 2018)

Five graduate students will be modifying 3 articles each (for a total of 15), all related to human biological variation and the scientists who do this research. We will veer away from medically-related pages and focus on basic biology. These graduate students will be working with teams of undergraduates on critiquing the articles, finding new resources, media, drafting language, etc. They will work through all of the training modules with students during discussion sectionsm though the undergraduate students will not start their own Wikipedia accounts or take the courses individually. The undergraduates will not be editing Wikipedia themselves. Only the graduate students will do this as team-leader for the undergraduate students' efforts. We will strongly ask all of the undergraduate students NOT to edit Wikipedia articles related to the course while they are students in the course.

This is technically an introductory level course, but since graduate student instructors will be supervising all of the work and making all of the edits, our interface with Wikipedia is more at the level of advanced undergraduate or graduate.

Week 7
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.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

What's a content gap?

Exercise
Add a citation

Copyedit an article

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

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

Biographies

Books

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

Genes and Proteins

History

LGBT+ Studies

Science Communication

Species

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 10
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 11
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.

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!

Week 12
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!

Guiding questions

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