Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of San Francisco/TYS 295 NewMedia YouMedia (Spring 2023)

In this course, students analyze and explore aspects of digital authorship. As part of their studies, they sharpen their research skills and experience digital authorship by significantly editing Wikipedia entires.

Week 7
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.)

Choose your topic / Find your sources

Week 8
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

After the librarian presentation, sit with your group and type a list of potential sources into your group sandbox page. Then put a group member's name by each source, indicating who is responsible for reading and writing about each source.

Week 9
Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

After reading the source(s) assigned to you during the library day, write a minimum of two sentences based on (and attributed to) that source and post into the group sandbox

Week 10
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Guiding framework

Week 11
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.

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

Week 12
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

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.

Week 14
It's the final week to develop your article.


 * 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, and be ready for grading.