Wikipedia:School and university projects/User:Piotrus/Fall 2016 glob

This page has information on planning and resources for the online writing assignment taught by Piotr Konieczny for the Hanyang University sociology of globalization.

The goal of this assignment is for several groups of students to choose an underdeveloped or missing article on Wikipedia, related to sociology of globalization during the duration of the course (3.5 months).

Introduction for students

Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, is an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone. It has many millions (!) of editors (Wikipedians), many of whom are students like you. The vast majority of them are volunteers who find editing this site to be an enjoyable experience, even a hobby. Therefore I hope you will enjoy this exercise and the course! After all, there are not many exercises that tell you to do something that over a million people think is 'fun'. :)

Wikipedia:Tutorial is the best place to start your adventure with this wiki. Please familiarize yourself with instructions for students and if you have any questions, check the Wikipedia:FAQ/Editing or Help:Contents and if you cannot find what you are looking for, ask the friendly people at Wikipedia:Help desk - or just contact me.

Before making any major edits, it is recommended that you create an account (video tutorial). You definitely need to have an account before attempting to do any wiki-related coursework (otherwise we will be unable to confirm if you have completed the exercise). After you create an account, if you know your group already, add your name to the relevant section of this page.

Remember that Wikipedia is not a project limited only to our university. We are guests here and we should all behave accordingly. Please make sure you read Wikipedia:Wikiquette. Please try to think what impression you want other Wikipedians to have of our university — and of yourselves.

You should expect that the course lecturer, other students, your friends, and even (or especially) other Wikipedia editors (not affiliated with our course) will leave you various messages on your talk pages. When working on the exercises below, you should log in to Wikipedia and check your messages as often as you check your email (I strongly recommend you read 'as often' as 'at least daily'). Whenever you have a new message and are logged to Wikipedia, you will see a large orange message, 'You have new messages', on every Wikipedia page you access. To make this message disappear, you should click on it and read the message. Note that it is customary to leave new messages at the bottom of the talk/discussion pages, and to reply to somebody's messages on their talk pages. If you want to leave somebody a message, make sure you are editing their talk page, not their user page. Remember to sign your talk and discussion messages (you may want to watch this tutorial on using talk pages).

Some other useful tips: whenever you are done with an edit and want to save a page, fill out the edit summary box and view a preview of the page after your edit to make sure it looks as you actually want it to look. Only then click the "Save Page" button. You may find the page history tool and watchlist tools to be very useful when you want to check what changes by other editors have been made to the article(s) you are working on.

Please direct any questions to my talk page. You are welcome to send emails, or drop by to see me during our office hours, and ask about Wikipedia how-to; but please try to find the answer first on the Help:Contents.

Assignment

Now that you are familiar with the Wikipedia environment, it is time to jump into your assignment.

Project overview:

By the end of September, each group (of 2 students) has to 1) select a English Wikipedia article related to globalization that does not exist on Korean Wikipedia (https://ko.wikipedia.org/) and 2) a globalization topic on English Wikipedia that is missing or in need of expansion (see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Korea/Redlist#Economy_and_society and Wikipedia:WikiProject Globalization/Requested articles for some ideas). Over the next two months, you will 1) translate the first article from to English to Korean Wikipedia and 2) write and/or expand the second article in English. Those assignments should be ideally finished by the end of November.

Stages and deadlines

Week 3

Tuesday, September 28: each student has to chose the article she or he will be working on and inform me of their selection. You are required to come to my office and show me which article you have selected. You should also complete the Wikipedia:Training/For students (you can also do an additional training in Korean at 위키백과:길라잡이) and enroll in our course here.. Completed those two steps gets you 5% of the assignment grade. To prove that you have completed the Training, you have to leave me a Wikipedia talk message saying you completed it; I'll then review your edits. If you successfully complete this step, I'll leave you a Wikipedia message on your talk page. If you do not receive such a message by September 16, it means you have not completed this assignment successfully.

Week 10

Tuesday, November 1: preliminary drafts have to be ready for review. Those drafts should be in your user draft space. You are required to come to my office so I can review your draft.

Week 12

Monay, November 15: final drafts should be ready for my second review; I will be providing ongoing feedback till final grading deadline. You are also required to write a review of another students project. You are required to come to my office so I can review your final Tuesday.

End of the course

Monday, December 20: articles will be graded by me.

Grading

How to fail the assignment: plagiarism will result in immediate failure.

This assignment is worth 50% of the final score. You get 20% from meeting deadlines on time and complete their elements, and 30% from the final article's quality.

Here is a description of quality classes for an article. What we are aiming is the B-class.

Article's quality class	Course credit points earned
stub class	1-5
start class	5-10
C-class	10-20
B-class	20-30
Good Article class	extra credit awarded

The following shows a breakdown of a points available for a 30-point article:

Well-written:0-4

the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct; and
it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation.

Verifiable with no original research: 0-10

it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline
reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose);
it contains no original research; and
it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism.

Broad in its coverage:0-10

it addresses the main aspects of the topic;
it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).

Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each.0-4
Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio: 0-2

media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content; and
media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.

Students editors

Course instructor: User:Piotrus (Piotr Konieczny) Online volunteer: User:Revi

Student list available at Education Program:Hanyang University/Sociology of Globalization (2016) (Fall)

Individual extra credit edits

Extra credit edits (the students have the opportunity to earn extra credit with sociology-related wikipedia editing).

What to do for extra credit? Edit sociology related articles and inform the instructor; they will be graded just like the regular assignment. You can start new articles or improve the existing ones.

Some highlights:

Questions?

Post them at the discussion page of this article and/or email your course instructor!