Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Pennsylvania/Summer PURM Project -- Contemporary Russian Poets in English Translation (Summer, 2020)

This is a summer research project involving two students who will be working collaboratively with the instructor to create and improve English-Language Wikipedia articles for contemporary Russian poets. Beyond general creation of quality articles, we will have a special focus on improving bibliographical references and links to publications of the poets’ works in English translation and adding references to sound archives of poetry performances available on the Pennsound internet archive of audio recordings of poetry.

Week 1
Welcome to our Wikipedia project’s timeline. This page guides us through the steps we'll follow for our Wikipedia project, with links to training modules and our shared work spaces.

Our project has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. We 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 project page, using the enrollment link Prof. Platt 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.)

Take a look at the existing articles and proposed new articles that Prof. Platt has listed and think about which ones you want to start with as we begin editing.

This week, everyone should have have acquired a Wikipedia account and  learned the basics of adding content to Wikipedia.

Week 2
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

This is an important topic that we will discuss in our weekly meeting.

This is another important topic that we will discuss in our weekly meeting.

This week, we have discussed our strategy for our Wikipedia interventions and begun writing our first article drafts for novel articles and editing existing articles.

Week 3
Now's the time to revisit our text and refine our work. We 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.

Some final steps to continue developing our first articles!


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list for articles.
 * Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Now that we've improved our drafts based on mutual critique and feedback, it's time to move our work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

This week, we will finalize our first stage of work on Wikipedia articles and begin working on additional articles, settling into the routines of work for the rest of our research project.

Week 8
This week, we will finalize our work for the summer on Wikipedia articles. Hooray!