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[edit]Week 3: Wikipedia essentials, Thursday, January 30
[edit]- Before class
- Fill out the short survey under Wikipedia Survey in Blackboard (important to do this first!!!)
- Create your wikipedia account
- Complete the online training for students. (try out the interactive training and go for a barnstar)
- Familiarize yourself with this handout: Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation)
- In class
- Overview of the course
- Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
- Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good and bad articles
- Choose an article to analyze for next week:
- Milestone
- All students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.
Week 4: Editing basics
[edit]- Before class
- Read the following short online pieces:
- Analyze the article you selected, and relying on course readings, reserve materials, and what you know about Wikipedia articles, bring comments on what you might add to your article.
- In class
- Basics of editing
- Handouts: Using talk pages, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality, Wikimarkup cheatsheet
Week 7: Choose your Biography
[edit]- By the end of the week
- Review potential composers for your project and choose the subject for your biography.
Week 9: Bibliography Due
[edit]- Before class
- Post a list of 7-10 secondary sources for your article to your talk page.
Week 10: Start your writing
[edit]- Before class Thursday, March 20th
- Have an initial short draft of your article posted to your sandbox
Week 11: Go Public
[edit]- In class Tuesday, March 25th
- Be prepared to move your article into the public sphere
- We'll work in class on citation formatting and any issues/problems we're having.
- We will finish getting outlines in and get started on some peer review in class
- Guidelines for Peer Review
- 1. Check for appropriate and correct citations!
- 2. Anything missing (biographical facts, gaps in life or career, recent doings)?
- 3. Copyedit: is it readable? Are antecedents clear (niceties such as sentence variety come later)?
- 4. Is the language consistently neutral? (look for demonstrative adjectives, instances of bias, etc).
- 5. Is there original research (opinion, speculation, pontificating, etc.)?
- 6. Is your entry assignable to wikipedia categories (e.g. Washington state composers, 1956 births, etc.)
Peer review comments are due on two articles by Thursday, April 2nd.
Week 13: Reviewing articles
[edit]- Before class Tuesday, April 8th
- Incorporate any changes and revisions as appropriate from your peer review
Week 14: Adding Media
[edit]- In class Tuesday, April 15th
- Discussion of copyright, creative commons and fair use
- Use the Wikipedia:Creation_and_usage_of_media_files guide to add media to your page:
- Incorporate one image into your article from wikimedia commons or a site from the copyright friendly resources guide
- Add a sound file to wikipedia files, include a fair use rationale, and add it to your page
Week 15: Presentations
[edit]- In class
- Presentations on your article to the rest of the class. (Details to come)