Assignment - Introduction to the Wikipedia project

 Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with me to see if there are other pages you should be following as well. 

 Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page. 

 To get started, please review the following handouts. You will find that these handouts have useful principles for the future assignments (i.e. Critiquing an Article). You are expected to have read these two handouts by class Thur Mar. 9.   

• Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
• Evaluating Wikipedia

Assignment - Practicing the basics

1. Create an account (use a memorable username and be sure to write down your username and password for safekeeping). 
2. Join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.
3. It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade. Take your time and think through each of them because they will help you make a stronger contribution to Wikipedia. Do not just skim and click through the tutorials, as this will result in weaker contributions and thus negatively affect your grade on these assignments. 
4.  When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate’s Talk page. 

• The deadline for completing these two training tutorials is 5pm Fri. March 10. 

Assignment - Critique an article

 It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article related to your research topic, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page. 

1. Complete the "Evaluating Articles and Sources" training (linked below).
2. Choose an article on Wikipedia related to your research topic. The article should also be a stub or start on the quality scale (check the Talk page of your article). Read your chosen not-so-good Wikipedia article. Then consider some questions (but don't feel limited to these): 

• Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?
• Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
• Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
• Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
• Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
• Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
• Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?

3. On our Wiki course page, select the "assign an article" tab to select your chosen article for evaluating. Consider the article you have chosen to evaluate and choose at least 2 questions from the list above. Answer the questions for the article you're evaluating. Go to the Talk Page of your selected article and create a new section titled "Evaluation of this article." Under this new section leave your evaluation based on questions above. Be sure to sign your feedback with four tildes — Jtrieu5 ( talk) 16:26, 9 April 2017 (UTC).  reply

• The deadline for completing the list above (1-3) is 5pm Friday Mar. 17. 

Assignment - Add to an article

This is the final section of our Wiki project. In this section you should add a small contribution to a selected article or add a citation to a claim that doesn't have one.

1. Complete the "Sources and Citations" training (linked below).
2. The Citation Hunt tool can show you some statements that don't have citations. You can use that to find an article to reference.
3. Use two of your reliable sources on your research topic (i.e. peer-review journal articles) to add to an existing Wiki Entry (article on Wikipedia) on your topic.

• You might add a paragraph that summarizes the author's argument and perspective on a topic if it is absent on the entry and/or add your source as a citation for an uncited idea.
• When you make a small claim, clearly state the fact in your own words, and then cite the source where you found the information.
• You will be graded on whether you accomplish the tasks above and the quality of your contribution(s). 

4. The deadline for these tasks (1-3) is the end of class Thursday Mar. 30.