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Wikipedia:Writing Wikipedia Articles course/Round 1/Week 1

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This page details homework assignments for Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond,
a free course offered through Peer to Peer University's School of Open.




Week 1 Homework

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Are you ready? Of course you are!

Do:

Read:

  • The following chapters in How Wikipedia Works (PDF) (2008) (you may have read one and two already):
    • Chap. 1. What's in Wikipedia?
    • Chap. 2. The World Gets a Free Encyclopedia
    • Chap. 4: Understanding and Evaluating an Article
    • Chap. 6: Good Writing and Research
  • Mahzarin Banaji (December 2010), Wikipedia is the Encyclopedia that Anybody Can Edit. But Have You? Observer Vol.23, No.10.

Watch:

  • If you'd like to review the "view history" tab (covered in the Week 1 webinar), see this instructional video.

Week 1 Extra Credit

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Ready to dig a little deeper? Take on one or more of these:

Do:

  • Read the Open Educational Resources article, or another article on the Communicate OER project Content page. Consider how you might improve the article.
  • If you see simple fixes you'd like to make, edit the article.
  • Comment on an OER-related talk page (see the Communicate OER Content page for ideas)
  • Review one of these articles on the relevant talk page - i.e. is it relevant/thorough? What would you like to see changed, added or deleted? (Hint: the "talk" tab is located just to the right of the "article" page at top left for every article.


All done?

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