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

Human Reproductive Ecology (HRE). is field of study within biological anthropology. It is the study of how and why human reproductive patterns vary within and across populations. It integrates topics and methods from human biology, evolutionary ecology, and demography.

The assignment is for students to work in groups of 3-4 to verify, edit, and expand on existing wikipedia pages of topics relevant to HRE. Topics will be pre-selected, and represent important concepts in demography, human biology, and evolutionary biology like &quot;demographic transition&quot;, &quot;parental investment&quot;, &quot;menopause&quot;. These are topics we will cover in class, so students should be able to verify sources and identify inaccuracies or important missing content.

Key to many of the demography and human biology topics will be identifying cultural biases--for example if descriptions of average reproductive function draw primarily from U.S. reference populations, and might be improved by adding references to observed function in other populations.

Week 2
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

Week 4
Ecology

Science Communication

Week 5
Choose your topic / Find your sources

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

What's a content gap?

Exercise
Add a citation

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 8
Guiding framework

Thinking about Wikipedia

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

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!

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

Week 12
Guiding questions

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.