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- Course name
- Library 100
- Institution
- Hunter College
- Instructor
- [[User:Claibourne|]]
- Wikipedia Expert
- Adam (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Information Literacy
- Course dates
- 2016-03-10 – 2016-03-31
- Approximate number of student editors
- 25
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 17 March 2016
- Assignment - Learn the basics
- Begin the training modules assigned for your course. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
- In class - Wikipedia essentials & Copyedit an article
- Overview of the course
- Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
- Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.
Copyedit an article
- Choose one article, identify ways in which you can improve and correct its language and grammar, and make the appropriate changes. (You do not need to alter the article's content.)
Handout: Editing Wikipedia
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 24 March 2016
- Assignment - Add to an article
- Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with a citation to an appropriate source, to a Wikipedia article related to the class.
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 31 March 2016
- In class - Review articles
- We will review the articles that you edited for the assignment