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Week 3: Wikipedia essentials, Thursday, January 30

 * Before class:
 * Fill out the short survey under Wikipedia Survey in Blackboard (important to do this first!!!)
 * Create your wikipedia account
 * Complete the online training for students. (try out the interactive training and go for a barnstar)
 * Familiarize yourself with this handout: Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation)


 * In class
 * Overview of the course
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
 * Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good and bad articles
 * Choose an article to analyze for next week:
 * Annea Lockwood
 * Pauline Oliveros
 * Maggi Payne
 * Carla Scaletti


 * Milestone:
 * All students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.

Week 4: Editing basics

 * Before class
 * Read the following short online pieces:
 * Wikipedia's Editors are all Males: here's what they're doing about it
 * Sarah Stierch, Wikimedia Fellow, Wants To Bring More Women To Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists
 * Analyze the article you selected, and relying on course readings, reserve materials, and what you know about Wikipedia articles, bring comments on what you might add to your article.


 * In class
 * Basics of editing
 * Handouts: Using talk pages, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality, Wikimarkup cheatsheet

Week 7: Choose your Biography

 * By the end of the week
 * Review potential composers for your project and choose the subject for your biography.

Week 9: Bibliography Due

 * Before class
 * Post a list of 7-10 secondary sources for your article to your talk page.

Week 10: Start your writing

 * Before class Thursday, March 20th
 * Have an initial short draft of your article posted to your sandbox

Week 11: Go Public
Peer review comments are due on two articles by Thursday, April 2nd.
 * In class Tuesday, March 25th
 * Be prepared to move your article into the public sphere
 * We'll work in class on citation formatting and any issues/problems we're having.
 * We will finish getting outlines in and get started on some peer review in class
 * Guidelines for Peer Review
 * 1. Check for appropriate and correct citations!
 * 2. Anything missing (biographical facts, gaps in life or career, recent doings)?
 * 3. Copyedit: is it readable? Are antecedents clear (niceties such as sentence variety come later)?
 * 4. Is the language consistently neutral? (look for demonstrative adjectives, instances of bias, etc).
 * 5. Is there original research (opinion, speculation, pontificating, etc.)?
 * 6. Is your entry assignable to wikipedia categories (e.g. Washington state composers, 1956 births, etc.)

Week 13: Reviewing articles

 * Before class Tuesday, April 8th
 * Incorporate any changes and revisions as appropriate from your peer review

Week 14: Adding Media

 * In class Tuesday, April 15th
 * Discussion of copyright, creative commons and fair use
 * Use the Creation_and_usage_of_media_files guide to add media to your page:
 * Incorporate one image into your article from wikimedia commons or a site from the copyright friendly resources guide
 * Add a sound file to wikipedia files, include a fair use rationale, and add it to your page

Week 15: Presentations

 * In class
 * Presentations on your article to the rest of the class. (Details to come)

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