Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Chapman University/Daily Life in Modern Europe (Spring 2021)
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- Course name
- Daily Life in Modern Europe
- Institution
- Chapman University
- Instructor
- Shira Klein
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- European History
- Course dates
- 2021-02-02 00:00:00 UTC – 2021-05-21 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 25
How did “ordinary” Europeans experience history? Through this course you will learn about European history from the French Revolution to the pre-sent day. Every week we will look at a select period or event in European history, through the lens of daily-life experiences.
Timeline
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 8 April 2021
- Assignment - Wiki 1B (due Apr 6 by 1pm)
- Learning how to edit Wikipedia
- Create a user account: If you followed the link on Canvas, you already created a user account.
- Enroll in our course: If you followed the link on Canvas, you are already enrolled.
- While you are still logged in with your username, complete the training modules for this assignment (linked above).
- When you are still logged in, go to “Sandbox” in upper right corner. Experiment in your Sandbox, with the help of the Editing training module you just completed. In your Sandbox, write:
- #* One regular sentence (anything you want, but nothing personal or offensive)
- One heading
- One sub-heading
- A link to another Wikipedia page (any page)
- Words in bold and italics
- A reference (this can be a book we're reading in class)
NOTE: this should be a Wikipedia-generated reference, following the instructions in the Editing training module.
- When you are still logged in, leave a message on the Talk page of a classmate. How? Go to the list of enrolled students; under/next to each student name you'll see a username in parentheses (e.g. Vanessa1290). Copy-paste that name at the end of this url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user_talk: (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user_talk:Vanessa1290) On upper right, select Edit tab. Add your sentence at the bottom of editable box. Keep it anonymous and neutral (e.g. “Hi, I’m a new Wikipedia user”). At the end of your sentence, add 4 tildes Chapmansh (talk) 04:17, 31 May 2021 (UTC). That ties the contribution to your username, like a signature.
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 13 April 2021 | Thursday, 15 April 2021
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 20 April 2021 | Thursday, 22 April 2021
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 27 April 2021 | Thursday, 29 April 2021
- Assignment - Wiki 3 (due Apr 29 by 1pm) - Planning your Wikipedia edits
- Complete the training modules for this assignment (Finding your article, Evaluating Articles and Sources), linked above.
- Hunt around Wikipedia for a page (or more than one page) related to our course material which you, with the help of the secondary source you read last week, can improve. This could be an article that is lacking key information, is wrong, or lacks references. In some cases, you already identified the Wiki page you wish to work on, back in Wiki 2. In other cases, you may find a Wiki page that you can contribute to more meaningfully.
Note: if the Wiki page you choose is very long (e.g. "Holocaust" or "Vietnam"), you should only commit to working on a section of it, and clarify in this assignment what that section is. Don’t commit to working on an entire Wiki page if it is long, because you will be overwhelmed by the task.
Sign up for that article by visiting the 'Students' tab of this website while logged in, and finding your name in the list of students.
- Then write a short essay (300-500 words, and provide word count at end) answering:
- Which Wiki page(s) you chose (include URL) and why it is problematic.
- How you will use the scholarly essay (the one you summarized in Wiki 2) to solve some of the problems. What you will do to make the Wiki page(s) better: will you add content? Rearrange content? Delete content? Add references to existing content? Be concrete regarding specific changes you will make ("I'll make it less biased" - that's vague. "I'll add information on the number of Daca arrivals in 2015" - that's concrete). Make sure you explain why these changes are important. Eventually, the changes you will make (Wiki 5) will need to amount to at least 200 words, not including references, so plan accordingly.
Note: Wikipedia is a place for concrete, factual data. The more concrete your data is, the better. This means steering clear of discursive, interpretative, theoretical statements. Favor policies, dates, numbers.
In this assignment, use parentheses within the text to specify the page numbers from the secondary source you plan to use.
Remember: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a place for primary-source analysis or primary research or new arguments. It is a place to summarize the findings of published works. On the rationale behind this rule, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research
Week 14
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 4 May 2021 | Thursday, 6 May 2021
- Assignment - Wiki 4 (due May 6 by 1pm) - Tell your plans to the Wikipedia community
- Complete the training module for this assignment (Adding Citations), link above.
- By now you have received substantive feedback from me and have a clear idea of what you will edit. The next stage is to inform the Wikipedia community of your plans.
- In the article’s Talk Page, write several sentences on what you intend to do. How to find the Talk Page? Every Wiki article, on the top left, has an "Article" tab and a "Talk" tab. You need the latter. If you're still confused, go back to the initial tutorial, which speaks about Talk Pages in general.
- If working in a group: only one of you needs to write on the article Talk Page, while signed into their Wiki account. The expectation is that all group members will still collaborate on the wording of what you put on the talk page, but no need to show me proof this time.
- In the article’s Talk Page, write several sentences on what you intend to do. How to find the Talk Page? Every Wiki article, on the top left, has an "Article" tab and a "Talk" tab. You need the latter. If you're still confused, go back to the initial tutorial, which speaks about Talk Pages in general.
- ** Be detailed regarding what needs adding, what needs correcting, and what sources you'll add. This is a shorter description than in Wiki 3, but aim for a meaty paragraph with concrete details. State your exact references (not "The Stillman-Cohen debate" or a Canvas URL, because nobody outside of our class will know what you mean). State who the author of your secondary source is and why that author is credible (professor of... a peer-reviewed publication... an expert on...).
- Be courteous (not "this article is rambling" but "this article could use some clarification").
- Be neutral (not “this is biased and I’m going to fix it,” which suggests you have the opposite bias – but rather “there is wrong or missing information here and I’m going to correct or add it”).
- State the scope of your changes ("altogether I'll add about 200-300 words").
- End your plan with an invitation to other Wiki editors to weigh in on your changes, e.g. “If anyone wants to comment on these changes, please let me know on this Talk Page or on my Talk Page.” Make sure you do this while you’re logged in, and sign after your post (Chapmansh (talk) 04:17, 31 May 2021 (UTC)).
Week 15
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 11 May 2021 | Thursday, 13 May 2021
- Assignment - Wiki 5 (due May 11 by 1pm) - Actual Edits to Wiki Article
- Complete the training modules for this assignment (Sandbox and Plagiarism), linked above.
- If you're working in a group, divvy the edits among yourselves. Edit when you are each logged into your respective Wikipedia accounts. If possible, make the edits within a window of several hours of one another (e.g. member 1 makes their edits at noon, and member 2 makes their edits at 1pm of same day) so that I can more easily evaluate them. Once you've made your edits, make sure each group member goes over the other group members' contributions and helps make them better. I will give the entire group the same grade, so you are all accountable for one another's work.
- If you received a comment on your Talk Page or on the article's Talk Page asking you for changes, consult with the instructor on whether/how to respond to it.
- Improve the Wikipedia article you chose. Note: you may use readings from the syllabus too, but you must primarily use the reading you summarized in Wiki 2.
- It’s recommended to use your Sandbox first, preview what you’ve done, and then copy and paste from Sandbox into the article.
Exercise (optional)
Grading Rubric:
Improvement (20 points)
____ I have incorporated all of the instructor’s comments on my previous Wiki assignments
Use of Evidence (20 points)
____ I have used a secondary source approved by the instructor, and provided a full reference to it
____ When drawing on secondary source, I have paraphrased, i.e. I’ve used my own words. Beware violations of academic integrity (copying, too-close paraphrasing, etc).
____ I have footnoted everything I paraphrased (no need to footnote each sentence, 1 per parag is fine)
Substantive Contribution (20 points)
____ I made a real difference by correcting misinformation and/or adding crucial information
____ If I didn't have enough crucial information to add to one article, I contributed to more than one article
____ My contribution is at least 200 words long (no maximum), not including footnotes
Relevant Argumentation (20 points)
____ All the information I pull out of my secondary sources is directly relevant to the Wikipedia article
____ I stick to what I can prove and avoid generalizing (“All Jews did XYZ…”) or judging ("Unfortunately...")
Style (20 points)
____ I avoid quotes or minimize them to very short extracts. Quotes never stand alone.
____ In the section I chose to edit, I corrected all sloppy writing, typos, grammar mistakes, run-on sentences, slang, repetitions, awkward phrases, and tense confusions, including those that had been made by previous Wikipedians.