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Timeline
[edit]Week 1
[edit]Sept. 5 Introduction to course; Canadian public memories
Week 2: Memory I
[edit]Sept. 10 “Who remembers the Armenians?”
Sept. 12 Memory and forgetting; What is Wikipedia?
Handout
Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation)
Week 3: Memory II
[edit]Sept. 17 Sites of memory
Sept. 19 Sites of conscience; How to edit Wikipedia; Overview Wikipedia article topics
Handout
online student orientation. During this training, you will create an account, make edits in a sandbox, and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
- Assignments (due week 3)
- Complete the online training for students.
- 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.
- Milestone
- All students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.
Response essay #1 due (for those choosing this option)
Week 4: The clash of historical narratives
[edit]Sept. 24 Usable pasts; How to avoid plagiarism and use citations properly; Finalize Wikipedia article topics
Handouts
Using talk pages, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality, Wikimarkup cheatsheet
Advice for choosing articles and How to get help
Sept. 26 Historical narratives, conflict & reconciliation
Week 5: Truth commissions I – truth & reconciliation in South Africa & Guatemala
[edit]Oct. 1 South Africa’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
Oct. 3 Guatemala’s Commission for Historical Clarification; Discussion and presentation of your Wikipedia article research so far
Response essay #2 due (for those choosing this option)
Wikipedia article: first draft of opening section and outline due
- Assignments
- 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.
- Begin working with classmates and other editors to polish your short starter article and fix any major issues.
- Continue research in preparation for expanding your article.
- Milestone
- All students have started editing articles or drafts on Wikipedia.
Week 6: Truth commissions II: Argentina, Korea & international accountability
[edit]Oct. 8 Argentina’s National Commission on the Disappeared
Oct. 10 South Korea’s truth commissions; How to move out of the Wikipedia sandbox
Handout
Uploading images” and “Evaluating Wikipedia article quality”
- Students give in-class presentations about their experiences editing Wikipedia.
Week 7: Truth commissions III: Slavery and rescource-driven conflict
[edit]Oct. 15 Sierra Leone
Oct. 16 Mauritius; How to peer-review Wikipedia articles
Deadline for first draft of entire Wikipedia article
Week 8: Paths not taken: Southeast Asia
[edit]Oct. 22 After mass violence: Cambodia and Burma (Myanmar)
Oct. 24 Film “The Act of Killing” (Indonesia)
Response essay #3 due (for those choosing this option)
Week 9: Case Study I: Timor-Leste
[edit]Oct. 29 Genocides? Indonesia 1965 and Timor-Leste 1975-99
Oct. 31 Film “The Siege”
Peer reviews of other students’ Wikipedia articles due
Week 10: Case Study II
[edit]Nov. 5 The CAVR: producing the report
Nov. 7 The CAVR: follow-up
Response essay #4 due (on films) (for those choosing this option)
Week 11: Case Study III
[edit]Nov. 12 Sites of memory: the Comarca (CAVR) & Museum of the Timorese Resistance
Nov. 14 Reparations & international accountability
Final (revised) Wikipedia article due
- Assignments
- Add final touches to your Wikipedia article.
You made it!
- Milestone
- Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading.
Week 12: Case Study IV
[edit]Nov. 19 The joint Indonesian-Timorese Commission on Truth and Friendship
Nov. 21 Canada, truth and reconciliation: home and away
Response essay #5 due (for those choosing this option)
Week 13
[edit]Nov. 26 Course review
Reflection essay on Wikipedia assignment due
- Assignments
- Write a reflective essay (2-4 pages) on your Wikipedia contributions.
- Milestone
- Students have finished their written reflection. Will you contribute to Wikipedia in the future? Will you use it differently now?