Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Indianapolis/English Composition (Fall 2018)

Students will focus on a research project that begins with the question, how are you going to change the world? A Wikipedia assignment will compliment an academic research project. Students will begin with learning about Wikipedia's policies and discussions of plagiarism, and then it will ask students to experience evaluating articles, find articles, edit articles, and finally add both copy and graphic to articles.

Week 1
Welcome to your Wikipedia project'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.

In class this week, you will discuss the Wikipedia project and how it will relate to your Change the World Action Plan project in Composition 101.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them any time through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

PLEASE REMEMBER, THE DETAILED SCHEDULE FOR CLASS ACTIVITIES, ASSIGNMENTS, DEADLINES, ETC. IS FOUND IN THE COURSE SYLLABUS (NOT ON THIS PAGE). PLEASE FOLLOW ALONG THE COURE'S SYLLABUS POSTED IN ACE, AND IT WILL SEND YOU TO THIS PAGE, WHEN WIKIPEDIA ASSIGNMENTS HAPPEN. (OTHERWISE, YOU WILL MISS IMPORTANT THINGS!)

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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 2
This week, we will be talking about how we can be responsible researchers. Learning how to assess the reliablity and crediblity of sources can help us achieve this.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Week 3
This week, we'll talk about the important tools we can use to find information we trust on which to build our foundation of understanding.

In the next few weeks, you will select an article that you will edit, so if you find any topics/articles as you complete the training, make sure to save the URLs, so you may find them again!

Week 4
This week, we will be exploring the alutristic act you'd like to research this term that will help you discover a change or contribution you'd like to make in/to the world. As you work on your proposal and search for Wikipedia articles that you might like to copyedit, please remember that these two projects should support each other. For example, if you are hoping to research how you might be able to help people through your future career, do you see any articles related to your future career/that type of helping? Your Change the World Action Plan and Wikipedia Contributions should harmonize and be in concert together. If you have questions/concerns as you select your topics, don't hesitate to email me or ask in class.

Week 5
This week, you will complete your Wikipedia Article Copy Editing Assignment, which will introduce you to the skills you'll need to navigate Wikipedia and participate as a contributing editor.

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

Week 7
This week, we will be visiting the library for an orientation and to roll up our sleeves and answer our pressing research questions! The sources you find to help you build your Change the World Action Plan will also be candidates for your Wikipedia Project (you will be contributing source information to an existing article), so make sure you flag sources you feel might work well for Wikipedia too.

Week 8
This week, we'll be engaging with the sources we've selected for our annotated bibliography, working with citation (MLA for the research paper--we'll be using Wikipedia's citation style for the article to which you contribute) and practicing summary.

Week 9
This week, you will be polishing your annotated bibliography, and also thinking about what you've learned. Are there any questions unanswered? Information gaps? Maybe more research is needed.

As you finish up your assignment, you will also think about which sources you've collected will serve a Wikipedia article and help improve it with a contribution of 4 sources' information/citations.

Week 10
This is the week!

You will formally select the Wikipedia article you will contribute 4 resources to (and assign it to yourself in your Wikipedia account), you will compose your contribution and copyedit your contribution (and the article generally), provide and solicit feedback in peer review, and revise your contribution before moving it from your Sandbox to Wikipedia live!

Remember, when you are thinking about the sources you could add to an article, you should be selecting sources that were included in your annotated bibliography. No new research should be needed. (If you find yourself struggling with this--maybe you have two or three, but not four, let me know, and we can discuss it/work it out!)

As you develop your contribution to the Wikipedia article you've chosen, remember there are Wikipedia resources to help you:


 * 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 framework

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

Week 11
After particpating in peer review and revising this week, you will be ready to share your contribution in Wikipedia. We will talk in class about what we should expect once our contributions are part of the Wikipedia entries.

We will also begin our Change the World Action Plan Essays!

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.

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
This week, we will take the source integration skills you strengthened in your Wikipedia Article Contribution Assignment and talk about how to create warrants to connect your evidence to your action plan, so in your discussion to change the world it is clear why the information you've learned is informing your actions.

Week 13
Before we celebrate the holiday, we will turn our attention to revising our essay's plans and making sure they are effectively developing into 8-12 page action plans.

Week 14
As we finalize our discussions in our action plans, we will also be talking about multi-modal presentation of work for that project AND start to learn how to make visual contributions to Wikipdea.

Week 15
In our final week of the term, you will complete your Change the World Action Plan Essay. We will also take what we've learned about multi-modal presentation strategies and the Creative Commons and apply them to Wikipedia, learning how we can contribute visual content to articles or their commons. This new skill will be reflected in/by our final exam.

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready to submit the final visual contribution and reflective essay by our exam day (Monday 12/10/18, 8 AM). We will meet during the final exam period in ESCH 004 to share our contributions and talk about how we might just have already changed the world through our Wikipedia project...

Guiding questions

Don't forget to follow the advice from the Week 14 training (you may return to it and go through it again!) on how to add a graphic to Wikipedia and submit what you choose to do in your ACE Final Exam Assignment page.