Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of California, Berkeley/Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Equity, and the Environment (Spring 2014)/Timeline

Timeline
Please note that although only several hard deadlines are imposed, the outline your group submits does require you to add - and stick to - some additional self-imposed guidelines. Generally speaking, the earlier you start editing, the better results you'll get, and the easier of a time you will have.

Week 1: Overview

 * In class
 * Overview of the course
 * Skills survey

Week 2: Intro to the assignment

 * In class
 * Talk by User:Kevin Gorman on February 3rd about the purpose and importance of a Wikipedia-based assignment (especially in an area like environmental justice)
 * Receive list of potential Wikipedia articles to work on on February 3rd
 * Sign up for a Wikipedia training session

Week 3: Finishing training

 * By the end of week 3, all students should have successfully undergone a training session and should have a basic understanding of how to edit Wikipedia (including being familiar with basic content policies and sourcing standards.)
 * By the end of week 3, all students should have successfully enrolled in this course page, and, if using pseudonyms, should have communicated these to their GSI's.

Week 4: Division of labor

 * Each group should submit a rough outline of how group members intend to divide their labor between the group, and a rough timeline of how they intend to proceed (including a schedule detailing group meetings, detailing self-imposed deadlines, etc.) At the end of the semester, each group will be required to submit an updated outline of what each group member was actually responsible for, with an explanation of any significant deviations from the original outline.  (We recommend using a shared google group to record the tasks performed by each group member for each assignment and a google calendar for their group's work schedule, however, hard copies of the outlines will be required.)

Week 6: Annotated bibliography

 * Each group must submit their completed annotated bibliography (instructions for the bibliography are available on bcourses.)

Week 9: Halfway there!

 * Groups will submit their midway assignments. For groups creating new articles, this should be a mostly complete first draft.

Week 11: Final draft submission

 * Groups will submit a final draft of their work. For groups creating new articles, if the articles have not already been moved in to the mainspace of the encyclopedia, they should be moved during this week.  The next several weeks should be spent polishing the content that you've created.

Week 14: Due date

 * Groups should have finished all of their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading. You're welcome to continue improving Wikipedia's content well after this point, but plan to have your articles (or revamps) done by this week.

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