Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Maryland/Iranian Cinema (Fall 2019)

This course will be an introduction to Iranian Cinema after the Islamic Revolution. We will cover a selection of the most important Persian-language Iranian films from this period. Students will be required to improve (or create, if necessary) relevant wikipedia entries for each film. This will occur in a two-step process. First, students will be assigned groups for each film and each group will be assigned a specific reading on the film and they will be responsible for adding relevant details from this article to the wikipedia page. In the second phase (and as a part of their final project), each student will select a specific film and they will be responsible for stylistically editing and providing a more coherent flow to one of the wikipedia articles that the students collectively worked on in the first stage.

Week 1
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 3
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Films

Week 4
Contribute to selected wikipedia articles from information provided in the supplementary readings assigned to you for the first two films.

Week 5
Contribute to selected wikipedia articles from information provided in the supplementary readings assigned to you for film #3.

Week 6
Guiding framework

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Week 7
Contribute to selected wikipedia articles from information provided in the supplementary readings assigned to you for films #4.

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
Contribute to selected wikipedia articles from information provided in the supplementary readings assigned to you for film #5.

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

Week 9
Contribute to selected wikipedia articles from information provided in the supplementary readings assigned to you for film #6.

Week 10
Contribute to selected wikipedia articles from information provided in the supplementary readings assigned to you for film #7.

Week 11
Contribute to selected wikipedia articles from information provided in the supplementary readings assigned to you for film #8.

Week 12
Contribute to selected wikipedia articles from information provided in the supplementary readings assigned to you for film #9.

Week 15
Submit a rough draft of your final Wikipedia article rewrite and film analysis