Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of Western Ontario/Advanced Genetics (Fall 2014)/Timeline

Week 1: Wikipedia essentials

 * In Tutorial
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
 * Handout: Welcome to WikipediaWikimarkup cheatsheet
 * online student orientation. During this training, you will create an account, make edits in a sandbox, and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
 * Create a user page, and enrol in the course.
 * Assignment (due week 3)
 * 3 Edits Exercise (3%).


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

Week 3: 3 Edits

 * Describe your 3 Edits on the course page by start of class, Sept. 23.

Week 4: Choosing Topics

 * Identify your Wiki Improvement topic.

Week 5: Starting Research

 * Compile a bibliography of 3 relevant research articles and post it to the talk page of the article you are working on. Begin reading the sources.

Week 6: Drafting starter articles

 * If you are starting a new article, write a 3–4 paragraph summary version of your article—with citations—in your Wikipedia sandbox. If you are improving an existing article, write a summary version reflecting the content the article will have after it's been improved, and post this along with a brief description of your plans on the article’s talk page.


 * Continue research in preparation for expanding your article.


 * Milestone
 * All students have started editing articles or drafts on Wikipedia.

Week 8: Building articles

 * Handouts: “Uploading images” and “Evaluating Wikipedia article quality” (handed out originally in week 2)

Week 10: Moving articles to the main space

 * Handout: Moving out of your sandbox


 * Move sandbox articles into main space.

([ Click to return to your main course page and continue.])