Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Whitworth University/Organismal Diversity (Fall 2023 B)

This course explores diversity in structure and function of plants, along with green algae and fungi. Students will work on Wikipedia articles about People Plants (plants important to human culture) or Plant People (botanists and other plant experts).

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.

Week 2
This exercise asks you to find an existing Wikipedia article and evaluate. Choose an article that either covers a single species (for People Plants topics - plants important to human culture) or a single person (for Plant People topics - botanists and other plant experts).

For People Plants, consider any plants that are important for human food, clothing, art, ritual, medicine, or to your personal life. For Plant People, any expert in a botanical field (professional scientist or not) would be appropriate, but a good place to start might be a list like Women Botanists by Nationality or American Botanical Writers.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 3
This exercise asks you to make a small edit on an article. You may choose to edit the article you evaluated or one of your 3-5 potential articles.

Don't assign yourself an article until you have heard from me about your potential articles.

Biographies

Species

Week 4
The first draft due date is a hard deadline, in order to give your classmates time to complete a peer review. Your first draft doesn't have to be perfect (bullet points are okay), but it should have all of the sections outlined and most of the information and citations that you're adding filled in.

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

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 6
Guiding framework

The peer review deadline is a hard deadline, to give your classmates enough time to incorporate your critiques and suggestions.

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

Week 7
Now that you've had the opportunity to improve your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may address additional peer/Wikipedian suggestions, 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.

This is the deadline to develop your article for this course.


 * 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!

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