Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Clark Street Community School/Wikipedia (2014 Fall)/Course description

We Write Wikipedia Wikipedia is the world's largest and most accessible encyclopedia because it's built by everyone. But if anyone can edit, why isn't it a disaster? In this term, we will embed ourselves within the Wikipedian community to study how volunteers collaborate anonymously and to make world-class articles ourselves. Together, we will explore how consensus is created around article titles and notability, civility, copyright and free culture, neutrality and due weight, peer and quality review, reliable sourcing, sanctions for "trolls", verifiability, and other tasks necessary for maintaining the encyclopedia we reference daily. After a guided overview, we will be free to work in the areas that most excite us, whether that be arbitration, article review, content creation (writing and illustration), deletion discussions, template coding, or something else as we develop personal portfolios of our contributions to the project.


 * Common Experience Required Graduation Elements


 * English
 * COM: Adapt nonverbal communication to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks.
 * COM: Apply verbal communication to a variety of contexts (one-on-one, small and large group discussion) and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
 * RIT:Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.
 * RIT:Determine and analyze the development (how they interact and build on one another) of two or more themes/central ideas of a text
 * RIT: Use strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of the text
 * W: Informative writing
 * W: Technical writing
 * RES: Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources
 * RES: Assess the strengths and limitations of sources in terms of the point of view, reasoning, and rhetoric
 * RES: Integrate information into the text selectively to maintain flow of ideas, avoid plagiarism, and source over-reliance
 * RES: Internal citations and works cited
 * PLUS: Demonstrates command of standard English in writing

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