Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Illinois at Chicago/Intro to Asian American Studies (Fall 2019)

This course provides students with a survey of major concepts, methods, and debates in the study of Asian American studies. Asian America will be considered broadly in social, political, historical, technological, and theoretical terms. This course introduces critical thinking, critical viewing, and analytical writing as “ways of knowing” Asian America. Literature, film, television, digital media, and live performances serve as principle texts for description, interpretation, and analysis - approaches to Asian America. This course provides students with several perspectives of theoretical approaches and methods formative for Asian American Studies as a field of its own.

Week 2


Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with me to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.



Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the &quot; Get Help &quot; button on this page.



To get started, please review the following handouts. You will find that these handouts have useful principles for the future assignments (i.e. Critiquing an Article). You are expected to have read these two handouts by the end of class Monday 10/28.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia


 * 1) Create an account (use a memorable username and be sure to write down your username and password for safekeeping). 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.
 * 2) Join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.
 * 3) It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade. Take your time and think through each of them because they will help you make a stronger contribution to Wikipedia. Do not just skim and click through the tutorials, as this will result in weaker contributions and thus negatively affect your grade on these assignments.
 * 4)  When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate’s Talk page.


 * The deadline for completing these two training tutorials is 10/28.

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.



It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article related to your research topic, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.

Selecting your article


 * Choose an article on Wikipedia related to your research topic. For help, review page 6 of the Editing Wikipedia guide. The article should also be a stub or start on the quality scale (check the Talk page of your article). Read your chosen not-so-good Wikipedia article.
 * Some Categories (article lists) to review to help you select your topic: Asian American Stubs, Asian American History, Stub-class Asian Americans articles, Asian American Culture
 * Once you have your article selected, head to the  Students  tab and assign your chosen topic to yourself.





Evaluating your article

Part 1


 * Complete the &quot;Evaluating Articles and Sources&quot; training (linked below).
 * Create a section in your sandbox titled &quot;Article evaluation&quot; where you'll leave notes about your observations and learnings.



Part 2

Read through your article closely and consider the following questions (but don't feel limited to these). You should record your responses to at least two of the questions in your sandbox in your &quot;Article evaluation&quot; section.




 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?
 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
 * If you could improve one thing about this article, what might it be?




 * The deadline for completing this tile is 11/10.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Week 3
Biographies

Books

Cultural Anthropology

Films

History

LGBT+ Studies

Sociology

Women's Studies



This is the final section of our Wiki project. In this section you should add a small contribution to your selected article or add a citation to a claim that doesn't have one.

To start, complete the trainings (linked above). Then pick one of the following...

Option 1: update citations


 * Use two of your reliable sources on your research topic (i.e. peer-review journal articles) to add to an existing Wiki Entry (article on Wikipedia) on your topic.
 * Review the &quot;Sources and Citations&quot; training for help.
 * You should be editing the live article.



Option 2: add original content


 * Based on your learning during your evaluation, you might add a paragraph of new content to your article that helps fill one of the gaps you discovered. If you choose to do this, your information should be a summary of one of your research resources and your contributed content should be properly cited.
 * Review the &quot;Sandboxes and Mainspace&quot; training for help.
 * When you make a small claim, clearly state the fact in your own words, and then cite the source where you found the information.
 * You should be editing the live article.



For everyone


 * Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
 * If you have questions about your edits, click the &quot;Get Help&quot; button in your sandbox or on this course page to request notes.



4. The deadline for the tasks on this tile is 11/10. You will be graded on whether you accomplish the tasks above and the quality of your contribution(s). The Wiki Project amounts to 18 points of your total course grade and serves as the 2nd short assignment.

Exercise
Add a citation

Write a two-page reflection essay on your wiki project following the guidelines in the exercise above.