Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Cornell University/Online Communities (Fall 2013)

Here, you guys can talk about your class assignment, Wikipedia editing, or anything else you'd like your classmates' or Ambassador's help with. Just create a "new section" from the tab at the top or "edit source" to respond to another post. Happy editing! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 23:21, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Project groups and articles
Project Proposal Due: September 24, 2013, 1:25pm
 * 1) Form groups - these need to be 3-member groups, and interdisciplinary (2 or more different majors)
 * 2) Choose an article you will be working on for your project, and write a proposal on the talk of the article:
 * 3) * Create a new section on the talk page
 * Describe that you are going to work on this article as part of a class assignment
 * Put a link to the course page
 * 1) * Describe what you are planning to do in the article, with as many details as possible, e.g.:
 * Sections you will work on or add and what content you will put in them
 * Initial list of references and sources and where you will get more sources
 * Images and other multi-media and where you will get them from
 * Changes to the organization/structure of the article
 * 1) * Division of labor
 * Describe who will do what
 * Include links to your user pages
 * 1) Add the course assignment template at the top of the talk page of the article you have chosen:
 * 2) In the table below, list the students in the group, including links to your user pages, and the article you will be working on including a link to the article page
 * 1) In the table below, list the students in the group, including links to your user pages, and the article you will be working on including a link to the article page

Start making progress on articles
By Tuesday, 10/1, 2:40pm, show that you have been making progress on the articles:
 * On talk page: discuss changes you are making to the article
 * On other Wikipedian’s talk pages: follow up on talk page discussions, contact them directly
 * Other editors of the article
 * Our online ambassadors: User:Pharos and User:JMathewson (WMF)
 * Your campus ambassador mentor assigned in the table
 * On article page: edit content, organization, formatting, style, links, infobox, images, sources
 * Nominate your article to “Did You Know”

Food & Drink article help
Hello, I am Jeremy, one of the members of the WikiProject Food & Drink. I noticed that several students are working to improve several food and drink related articles here on Wikipedia. I would be glad to help answer any questions regarding editing or formatting that may arise. Also, A good place to inquire regarding food and drink related questions is WikiProject Food & Drink talk page.

Also, just about every subject that is being worked on has a corresponding WikiProject for it. Members of these projects should be able to help regarding these subjects.

--Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 08:21, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you!!! LeshedInstructor (talk) 19:32, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Final Wikipedia project report
Due: Thursday October 10, 1:25pm

After you have completed all your communications with other editors and finalized your edits on the article you have been working on in the past few weeks, generate a report that addresses the following:

Each group has a special talk page that is linked from the table above to a place to put up your final report.
 * 1) Your contribution to the article in terms of the changes you have made in the article. Add details about content, formatting, style, organization, multimedia, links, etc. Describe where you got the information for these changes and what sources you used. Do you think the article now ready to move up from a C-Class to a B-Class? Why or why not?
 * 2) The evolution of the article in terms of what it was like when you started, what changes you made when, and how the current revision is different from the one when you just started. What contributed to the way that the article evolved?
 * 3) The community experience you had in terms of interactions with others through article pages, talk pages, or other means. Describe specific interactions, who they were with, and whether they were beneficial or detrimental to your Wikipedia experience (anonymize names of those you had negative interactions with). Did you feel that you were in a community? Why or why not?
 * 4) A detailed breakdown of who did what in this project in terms of content, communication, and technical aspects.


 * Do you want the report to be in formal paragraph form? Similar to how we might organize a paper not written in wiki-markup? Or, can we structure our report in a wiki-style?Nebelmeister (talk) 15:05, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Nebelmeister: I am not sure what a "formal paragraph form" is. Anyway in which you organize the report such that the teaching staff can evaluate your activities with respect to the instructions outlined above will be acceptable. LeshedInstructor (talk) 19:39, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Final Wikipedia project individual reflection
Due: Friday October 11, 5:00PM

After you have completed the group project of expanding a Wikipedia article, complete an individual report in which describe and reflect on the process you went through in “becoming a Wikipedian” in the first half of the semester. The paper should include the following:


 * 1) Describe your contribution to Wikipedia: what article did you edit, what changes did the group do to the article, and what were your individual contributions? To what degree do you perceive this contribution to be peripheral or substantial to Wikipedia? Why?
 * 2) Describe and reflect on the process you went through toward making your contributions: what happened when? What were the highlights and the lowlights? How did you overcome challenges? Provide specific examples.
 * 3) Describe and reflect on your community experience in Wikipedia: Who did you (individually) communicate with, about what, and through what means? How was this communication beneficial or detrimental to your Wikipedia experience? Did you feel you were in a community? Why or why not? Provide specific examples.
 * 4) Reflect on your overall experience in this project: was it a positive or a negative one? What contributed to this experience? What did you learn? What do you wish you have learned and didn’t?
 * 5) Would you continue editing Wikipedia? Why or why not?


 * To be submitted individually by each student
 * Format: up to 1500 words, font Times New Roman size 12, double-spaced, 1” margins on all sides. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines will not be graded.

Because of possible sensitivities of this assignment, it will not be published publicly on Wikipedia, but will be submitted privately via Blackboard turn-it-in.