Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Villanova University/CHM 4664-9664 Signal Transduction (Fall 2018)

General background on signal transduction, critical reading of related primary literature articles, emphasis on natural products and electrophilic/oxidative signaling.

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

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Exercise
Choose a topic, and indicate this in your Sandbox

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

What's a content gap?

Exercise
Add a citation

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Week 6
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Genes and Proteins

Everyone has 3 (or 4) citations in their sandbox, and the reasons they chose these, including what sentences they want to add or improve with these citations.

Week 8
Next week, your planned edits/additions/citations will be peer reviewed by a fellow student. At this point, you want to have done the majority of the work in finding good additions to your article of choice.

Week 9
This week, review the planned article edits and citations (4 total) in the sandbox of the classmate you've been assigned to peer review. Give constructive feedback to them by email, and cc Dr. Eggler on this email. Feedback is due on 11/12.

Week 10
You have some feedback from another student 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 11
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

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!

Week 13
Guiding questions

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