Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Colorado, Boulder/Remote Sensing of the Environment (Fall 2018)

Extra credit project for students to update existing articles related to Remote Sensing

Week 6
Welcome to your Wikipedia Extra Credit 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

Week 7
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
For this exercise, please read the Remote Sensing article on Wikipedia.

Evaluate the Remote Sensing article

Exercise
For this exercise, please pick a topic related to Remote Sensing to improve. You can see a list of existing articles on Wikipedia related to Remote Sensing here.

Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Exercise
Make sure another student has not already assigned themself your chosen topic. You can see the other topics students have selected on the Students tab of this course page.

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Week 10
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

Environmental Sciences

Science Communication

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 11
Once you have a complete first draft, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

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 15
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!

To get full credit for this extra credit assignment you'll need to write up a short response to the guiding questions here and provide a print out copy (before &amp; after) of your article.

Guiding questions

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