Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)/146B (Spring 2013)/Timeline

Week 1-5: Wikipedia introduction
Some useful information
 * In class
 * Overview of the course
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
 * Quiz #1 on Wikipedia and other issues (week 1)
 * Handout: Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation)
 * Start the online student orientation. During this training, you will create an account, make edits in a sandbox, and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
 * Handouts: Using talk pages, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality, Wikimarkup cheatsheet
 * Create a user page, and sign up on the list of students on the course page.
 * To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself to any Wikipedians helping your class (such as a Wikipedia Ambassador), and leave a message for a classmate on their user talk page.
 * Handouts: Advice for choosing articles and How to get help
 * Handouts: “Referencing on Wikipedia” and “Understanding Wikipedia’s copyright policy”

Week 6-7: Choosing articles

 * Check the list of potential articles here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19M9lAE5pxsE1AeVTubHo3w515pFxi0ZOfFDo804Gmjs/edit?usp=sharing
 * Practice: Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with a citation to an appropriate source, to a Wikipedia article related to the class.
 * In class
 * Discuss the range of topics students will be working on and strategies for researching and writing about them.

Week 7: Drafting starter articles
interacting on Wikipedia and getting started with writing.
 * In class
 * Talk about Wikipedia culture and etiquette, and (optionally) revisit the concept of sandboxes and how to use them.
 * Q&A session with instructor and/or Wikipedia Ambassadors about
 * Select an article to work on, removing the rest from your user page. Add your article to the class’s course page.
 * Compile a bibliography of relevant research and post it to the talk page of the article you are working on. Begin reading the sources.

Week 8: Building articles

 * Workshop in class or outside of class
 * Demo uploading images and adding images to articles.
 * Share experiences and discuss problems.
 * Handouts: “Uploading images” and “Evaluating Wikipedia article quality” (handed out originally in week 2)

Week 9: Getting and giving feedback
and the impact and limits of Wikipedia.
 * In class
 * Open discussion of the concepts of neutrality, media literacy,
 * As a group, have the students offer suggestions for improving one or two of the students' articles, setting the example for what is expected from a solid encyclopedia article.

Week 10: Finish Your Article!

 * Add final touches to your Wikipedia article.
 * Submit article url to Moodle assignment module.

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