Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Saint Louis University/BIOL 460: Developmental Biology (Spring 2014)/Grading

Grading rubric
Grading for each assignment is detailed above. In addition, grading will take these factors into account (but is not necessarily limited to just these):


 * Participation in discussions with your team
 * Participation in discussions with other Wikipedia editors (civility, etc.)
 * Individual contributions, based on Wikipedia's history features
 * Improvements to the overall quality of the article, based on Wikipedia's good-article-criteria, at the end of the semester

The grading rubric below, in its entirety, will be used to grade your contributions including the final product at the close of Assignment 8.

Further resources

 * For scientists
 * Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia, Logan DW, Sandal M, Gardner PP, Manske M, Bateman A (2010). PLoS Comput Biol 6(9): e1000941.
 * Training material - a practical introduction to editing Wikipedia for scientists. This is a very good set of pages that were used in Introduction to Wikipedia workshop held at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute on 30 July 2010, and will be used again at the upcoming European Conference on Computational Biology.


 * Wikipedia help pages
 * Welcome to Wikipedia
 * Getting started
 * Tutorial
 * Where to ask questions or make comments
 * Glossary
 * Help desk
 * Reference desk


 * WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology
 * Main page - see, in particular, "How you can help"
 * Their worklist
 * Molecular and cell biology stubs


 * Figures and Images - You need to make sure that any figure you add to an article is suitably licensed. Usually that means Creative Commons attribution (CC-BY) or Creative Commons attribution/share-alike (CC-BY-SA).  You can either try to find existing figures, or you can create your own.
 * Two resources for finding existing figures are:
 * Wikimedia Commons. Here is a list of a few search tools that might help.
 * The PMC open-access subset. You can search for open access articles in PMC by adding "AND open access[filter]" to the end of your search, like, for example, here. When you find an article with a figure you want to use, verify that it has a suitable license by checking under "Copyright and license information" at the top of the article.  The license should be either "Creative Commons, attribution" (CC-BY) or "Creative Commons, attribution, share-alike" (CC-BY-SA).  Other licenses may be okay, check the Wikimedia Commons acceptable license page for details.
 * For creating you own image, Inkscape is a good drawing program to use. Save your images as SVG and upload them into Wikimedia Commons.  That enables them to be reused on any Wikimedia project.


 * Other
 * Citing your sources - another brief video on how to cite sources.

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