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


 * Wikipedia log (When? What were you looking for? Did you find it? Did you find something else interesting? What questions did you have?)
 * Final portfolio: writing (edits to articles, formal review, new articles), analysis (PR, fixing sources)

Weeks 1–2
What is an encyclopedia?

Reading: What Wikipedia is not


 * Chromebooks, mindmap, expectations, what is an encyclopedia (authority and expertise, distance from source, scope, who writes, who revises, who pays, who uses), five pillars

Verifiability and reliable sources


 * Haymarket article, plagiarism and Grimes ("In the News"), Grimes article (before) (after), introduction to verifiability, reliable sources (difference between primary/secondary/tertiary, when each is most appropriate, source affiliation with subject matter, reliability via fact-checking and editorial control), discuss final portfolio, article annotation assignment (by hand)


 * Five pillars review, WP shortcuts and being able to reference policy, markers of article quality (article structure), usernames & Internet safety & acceptable use, sandbox and reputation, vandalism?, permanence, tutorial (online student orientation, WP Adventure, wikicode). If you missed class, read File:Editing Wikipedia brochure EN.pdf.

Reading: links off of Five pillars ("5"), Verifiability ("V")


 * Review personal Wikipedia logs, talk pages, make userpage, sign course page, AGF/BITE/civility, ping, reputation and association with course, adding a source and/or information to a WP article, likely a news topic on the periphery (idea: use an article from The New York Times or The Verge)

Week 3
Deletion and notability

Reading: Notability ("N", especially the "GNG"), Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions ("ATA"), on bots


 * Adding sources/info to articles (cont'd), deletion and notability (list), citations and referencing, reliable sources, plagiarism/paraphrase and "original research", how to get help

Weeks 4–5
Reading: Manual of Style/Words to watch ("WTW")


 * Making an article together (sourcing, notability, appropriate headings, comparable articles, proper referencing)


 * Draft:Clark Street Community School


 * WikiProjects, editor interaction (review talk pages), editor noticeboards, arbitration, admins
 * Maintenance tasks
 * Participation in deletion discussions (Ice Bucket list), deletion rationale

Week 6
Article cleanup

Free use media/fair use rationale, finding free use images, finding sources, article class and criteria

Week 7+
Edit-a-thon, individual projects, translation

Quality and peer review

Local library visit/field trip to university library and historical society

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Discussion topics: sharing back, systemic bias (who edits Wikipedia), WP:Signpost (add examples here), Centralized discussion

Field trip

 * List of current AfDs
 * Articles for deletion/Log/Today

Links

 * Military history
 * British frigate GAs cf. HMS Janus (1778)
 * WikiProject Military history/Academy, especially Opportunities for new military history articles and their own Manual of Style


 * WikiProject_Professional_sound_production, Lavalier microphone
 * Category:Sound technology stubs
 * History of the internal combustion engine, Barsanti-Matteucci engine, Gunpowder engine
 * WikiProject Chemical and Bio Engineering

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