Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of New Hampshire/Human Development and Learning (Fall 2018)

This course is about culture, learning, and development. We examine topics in psychology, anthropology, and the learning sciences from a cultural perspective.

Week 5
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.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 7
What's a content gap?

Cultural Anthropology

LGBT+ Studies

Psychology

Sociology

Women's Studies

Exercise
Add a citation

Week 9
By the beginning of class on Thursday 10/25, Wikipedia work teams must have a prospectus developed and submitted via the MyCourses assignment. The prospectus is less than a page in length, and should include:

1. A brief description of the team's topic

2. A list of 2-3 Wikipedia articles that have been identified as possibilities for contributing information on the topic

3. A brief paragraph describing the contribution(s) to be made on each Wikipedia article listed

4. A list of a few secondary sources identified that can support the proposed contributions

Week 10
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Use this week to continue and intensify your search for secondary sources. This is one of the main ways to improve the quality of your contributions.

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 11
Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia
 * Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Thinking about Wikipedia

Week 12
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 13
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot; Be sure to have introduced your contributions on the article's talk page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Nominating your article for Did You Know

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.

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 15
It's the final week to develop your contribution.


 * 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 questions

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia.