Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Wake Forest University/LIB100 Accessing Information in the 21st Century (Spring)

This course teaches academic library research skills, including finding, evaluating, and using information.

Week 1

 * Overview of the course
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
 * Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.

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Handout: Editing Wikipedia


 * Begin the training modules assigned for your course. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox, learn the basic rules of Wikipedia, and learn about evaluating articles and sources for Wikipedia.

Week 2

 * Using the Citation Hunt tool, find a claim in a Wikipedia article that has been marked as having a &quot;citation needed&quot;
 * Find an appropriate source for the claim, taking into consideration what you learned in the Evaluating Articles and Sources module, and evaluation criteria we've discussed in class:
 * Authority (Authorship)
 * Ownership (Publisher)
 * Objectivity (Bias)
 * Currency
 * Accuracy
 * Purpose
 * Add a citation where it is needed; double check to make sure sure your footnote has been added
 * Be sure to remove the &quot;citation needed&quot; tag