Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Oregon/Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing (Winter)

This is a writing course organized around writing for social justice, with a focus on racial justice and the history of struggles for racial justice. The Wikipedia assignment is a collaborative one, timed to correspond with Black History Month, and students will write entries to help diversify content on Wikipedia.

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

Guiding framework

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.)

Begin a discussion about your experiences. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, or reflect on the research and writing process. There's a Teams channel for this purpose. Create at least one discussion entry each week during the Wikipedia assignment.

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 4
Find a writing partner for this assignment and post that information on the Teams channel.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Week 5
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Biographies

History

Medicine

Political Science

Week 6
If your team is writing on health topics, you should review this material carefully! If your team is not writing on health topics, you can skip this tutorial (unless you're interested).

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 7
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 8
Continue to fine tune!


 * 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!

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 9
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

We will be posting our articles together during the last class session on Friday, March 12.