Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Chicago/Europe's Intellectual Transformations Renaissance to Enlightenment (Autumn)

European intellectual history from High Medieval to Enlightenment, with a focus on book history, how educational systems affected thought, and continuity. Usually European thought is divided up with rigid lines between Medieval and Renaissance, and another rigid line at 1600 with Bacon and Descartes. The focus of this course is to remove those barriers and show continuities of ideas and practice, and restore the role of the Renaissance which is often skipped over in histories of philosophy, which tend to go straight from Aquinas to Descartes ignoring the centuries in between.

The course will actually be a very large course, probably 90 students, but students will be given the option of three different tracks of assignments to take, of which Wikipedia will be one of them. When I did this in my 90-person Censorship and Information Control course we had round 18-20 students choose to do it, and I expect this will be the same.

I would be happy to do Wiki-ed again and have done it twice so am a bit of a veteran, but it is not essential to this course so, if it really is the case that there is a shortage of support resources this year so not all courses that want to do Wiki-ed will have a chance, I would be happy to be made low-priority compared to other courses which want to make Wiki-ed more central, or which are focusing on areas Wikipedia needs to cover more (i.e. not Europe).

Week 2
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 4
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 5
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

Books

History

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 7
Guiding framework

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 8
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 9
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!

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