Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Washington/Advanced Human Reproductive Ecology (Fall)

Human Reproductive Ecology is a well-established field of study within Biological Anthropology that examines how and why human reproductive patterns vary within and across populations. The field integrates topics and methods from human biology, evolutionary ecology, and demography.

The field has explicitly informed many field and laboratory studies since the 1990s. Human Reproductive Ecology is taught as a graduate or undergraduate course in many anthropology departments in the U.S., and has been the subject of several books and review articles by prominent anthropologists. As yet, there is no Wikipedia entry for the subject. The Graduate students in this course will create an entry briefly describing the history of the field, major works and developments in the field, and how it continues to inform anthropological research today.

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.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Choose your topic / Find your sources

Ecology

Science Communication

Week 3
Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Exercise
Add a citation

Copyedit an article

Week 4
What's a content gap?

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 8
Thinking about Wikipedia

Guiding framework

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

Week 9
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 10
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

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 12
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.