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- Course name
- FREN 326
- Institution
- Grove City College
- Instructor
- Kelsey Madsen
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- French
- Course dates
- 2020-01-20 00:00:00 UTC – 2020-05-06 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 20
This course, taught in French, covers French film from 1895 to the present. Students also learn technical film vocabulary and how to critically analyze movies and other video clips. Students complete a portfolio of that contains both analytical work in French and "community outreach" work in English. The latter category includes projects such as (a) writing English reviews of French films for the student newspaper or for a website and (b) updating English Wikipedia articles related to French directors or specific French movies. In many cases, this will involve translating the related French Wikipedia page.
Timeline
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 5 February 2020 | Friday, 7 February 2020
- In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia project
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
- Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
- Assignment - Practicing the basics
- Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (To avoid hitting Wikipedia's account creation limits, this is best done outside of class. Only 6 new accounts may be created per day from the same IP address.)
- It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.
- When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate’s Talk page.
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 10 February 2020 | Wednesday, 12 February 2020 | Friday, 14 February 2020
- Assignment - Choose an article
- Choose two articles (a first choice, and a backup) to translate into English. Post the article links on your talk page, and submit them to the instructor for review.
- Once your instructor has approved one or both of your choices, finalize your choice of which article to translate.
- Assignment - Begin translating
- Copy your article from the target-language Wikipedia into your sandbox.
- Begin to translate your work.
Supplementary trainings:
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 17 February 2020 | Wednesday, 19 February 2020 | Friday, 21 February 2020
- Assignment - Translation
- Continue to translate your work.
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 24 February 2020 | Wednesday, 26 February 2020 | Friday, 28 February 2020
- In class - Publish your work
- Discussion of fact-checking translated work, finding English-language sources.
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 9 March 2020 | Wednesday, 11 March 2020 | Friday, 13 March 2020
- Assignment - Publish your work
- Move sandbox articles into main space.
- If you are expanding an existing article, it's time to add your revised translation (including English sources, when available). Copy your edit into the article. If you are making many small edits, save after each edit before you make the next one. Do NOT paste over the entire existing article, or large sections of the existing article. Be sure to check the article's talk page and respond to suggestions from Wikipedians. Don't panic if your edits are removed or changed! Discuss it civilly on the article's talk page, and make a note of it for your report or presentation about your editing experience.
- If you are creating a new article, do NOT copy and paste your text, or there will be no record of your work history. Follow instruction on the "Moving out of your sandbox" handout.
- In your first edit to the article namespace, include a link of the source article (i.e., the article you translated) in the "edit summary" before hitting "save."
- Copy the code {{Translated page|es|Page Title}} to the bottom of the Wikipedia article, replacing es with the language code of the language you a translating from and replacing Page Title with the title of the source page.
Handout: Moving out of your sandbox
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 16 March 2020 | Wednesday, 18 March 2020 | Friday, 20 March 2020
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 23 March 2020 | Wednesday, 25 March 2020 | Friday, 27 March 2020
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 30 March 2020 | Wednesday, 1 April 2020 | Friday, 3 April 2020
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 6 April 2020 | Wednesday, 8 April 2020
- Assignment - Updates
- Continue Improving Your Article
Keep up with any feedback or suggested edits to your article. If any of your edits were deleted, review why, and see if you can submit additional sources to support your information.
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 15 April 2020 | Friday, 17 April 2020
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 20 April 2020 | Wednesday, 22 April 2020 | Friday, 24 April 2020
Week 14
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 27 April 2020 | Wednesday, 29 April 2020 | Friday, 1 May 2020
- Milestones
Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading.
Week 15
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 4 May 2020 | Wednesday, 6 May 2020
- In class - Portfolio Presentation
Individual presentations about your translation process, how you selected your articles, and your observations about what you learned from this assignment.