Wikipedia:Writing Wikipedia Articles course/Round 1/Week 1

Week 1 Homework
Are you ready? Of course you are!

Do:


 * Complete this brief survey providing basic info about yourself
 * Create a Wikipedia user account • Instructional video • Why create an account?
 * Create a basic Wikipedia user page • Instructional video • About user pages
 * Introduce yourself on the course roster - a few sentences will suffice! In addition to a general introduction, please answer the following questions:
 * What are you hoping to get out of this course?
 * Have you ever edited an article on Wikipedia (or another wiki)?
 * Edit one or two articles anywhere on Wikipedia: make a sentence more clear, fix a typo, etc. You may want to use your sandbox. • Instructional video

Read:


 * The following chapters in How Wikipedia Works (PDF) (2008) (you may have read one and two already):
 * Chap. 1. What's in Wikipedia?
 * Chap. 2. The World Gets a Free Encyclopedia
 * Chap. 4: Understanding and Evaluating an Article
 * Chap. 6: Good Writing and Research
 * Mahzarin Banaji (December 2010), Wikipedia is the Encyclopedia that Anybody Can Edit. But Have You? Observer Vol.23, No.10.

Watch:
 * If you'd like to review the "view history" tab (covered in the Week 1 webinar), see this instructional video.

Week 1 Extra Credit
Ready to dig a little deeper? Take on one or more of these:

Do:


 * Read the Open Educational Resources article, or another article on the Communicate OER project Content page. Consider how you might improve the article.
 * If you see simple fixes you'd like to make, edit the article.
 * Comment on an OER-related talk page (see the Communicate OER Content page for ideas)
 * Review one of these articles on the relevant talk page - i.e. is it relevant/thorough? What would you like to see changed, added or deleted? (Hint: the "talk" tab is located just to the right of the "article" page at top left for every article.