Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Yale College/Science and Politics of HIV-AIDS (fall)

Week 4
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.) For your Wikipedia user name,  chose one that is anonyous and gender neutral. There is not a lot of trolling on Wikipedia, but you have to be aware of the danger anytime you use the internet. After  you create material on Wikipedia you can claim credit by telling those you want what your user name is

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Look at three  articles 1)  the Wikipdia article on HIV.  This article is rated GA (good article) in Wikipedia's quality scale.  You can see this on the talk page and on the green  symbol at the upper right corner of the main article.  You will not likely work on an article already rated this high or higher because it would be difficult to improve it.  Now look at this article on treatment as pevention and this article on AIDS orphan.  Theese  are stub articles meaning they are placeholders to be developed in the future.  For your the article you work on, you will likely chose a stub or a &quot;start class&quot; article becase there is work to be done.

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 6
In addition, copy and paste any paragraph from a current Wikipedia article in the mainspace into yout sandbox. Make at least two edits in the text and add a citation. These two not have to be correct. I want you to demonstrate to me and yourself that you are comfortable with the editing process. Leave the before and after paragraphs  in your sandbox. Do NOT make any changes in the mainspace. Explain you have done it with the signature ~

Find the article you will work on for the rest of the semester. You will most likely want to chose a stub or start class article. In class we will go over how to find articles. Wikipedia has an AIDS project that should be very helpful. It is very important that you find an article that interests you because you will be spending a lot of time with it

What's a content gap?

Genes and Proteins

Medicine

Science Communcation

Exercise
Add a citation

Please complete both of these:

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Copyedit your article

Week 8
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 9
Guiding framework

Thinking about Wikipedia

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

Week 10
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:

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


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
 * It is important that everyone reach out to their Wikipedia expert now with the &quot;get help&quot; button because the project for which you will be graded is due in two weeks and you want to give the expert a chance to give you feed back you can incoporate

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;  You wil be graded on what is in your sandbox on Nov 15, but you will be docked credit if you do not move the article into the mainspace by November 9

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

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.


 * 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!
 * HERE IS THE RUBRIC FOR GRADING
 * Comments from others on Wikipedia and your class peer review should help you improve your artilce.  But they will not effect your grade

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

Week 13
3000 -'''4000 words on any topic related to the class, possibly even the subject you chose for your Wikipedia assignment. But with the paper you will make an argument aimed either at policy makers or the public. This is quite different from the neutral tone required for the Wikipedia assignment and one of the major goals is for you to appreciate the difference '''