Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Oregon State University/Geog 203 - Human-Environment Geography (Winter 2017)
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- Course name
- Geog 203 - Human-Environment Geography
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Instructor
- Shireen Hyrapiet
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Geography
- Course dates
- 2017-01-09 00:00:00 UTC – 2017-03-24 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 100
How human societies manage resources, physical limits to sustainability, role of science in the use and management of resources, and how societal resource use adversely affects other societies, in human history and across spatial scales.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 7 February 2017 | Thursday, 9 February 2017
- 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 Content 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.
- 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 2
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 14 February 2017 | Thursday, 16 February 2017
- Assignment - Critique an article
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
- Complete the "Evaluating Articles and Sources" training (linked below).
- Read the Wikipedia article about Human Geography & Integrated Geography and another related to the course.
- While you read, consider some questions (but don't feel limited to these):
- Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?
- Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
- Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
- Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
- Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
- Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
- Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
- Choose at least 1 questions relevant to one of the articles you're evaluating. Leave your evaluation on the article's Talk page. Be sure to sign your feedback with four tildes — Hyrapiet (talk) 04:46, 13 March 2017 (UTC).
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 21 February 2017 | Thursday, 23 February 2017
- Assignment - Add to an article
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article.
- Add 1-2 sentences to a course-related article, and cite that statement to a reliable source, as you learned in the online training.
- To find a topic to work on, consider browsing the following article lists:
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 28 February 2017 | Thursday, 2 March 2017
- Assignment - Copyedit an article
Choose a new article or continue working on the same article from last week. Read through it, thinking about ways to improve the language, such as fixing grammatical mistakes. Then, make the appropriate changes. You don’t need to contribute new information to the article.
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 7 March 2017 | Thursday, 9 March 2017
- Assignment - Optional
- Illustrate an article
You'll want to find or create an appropriate photo, illustration, or piece of video/audio to add to an article.
- Before you start, review the Illustrating Wikipedia handbook, or see Editing Wikipedia pages 10–11.
- When you've reviewed those pages, take the training linked below.
- When you're ready to start finding images, remember: Never grab images you find through an image search, or those found on Instagram, Tumblr, Reddit, Imgur, or even so-called "Free image" or "free stock photo" websites. Instead, you'll want to find images with clear proof that the creator has given permission to use their work. Many of these images can be found on search.creativecommons.org.
- Don't just upload an image to Wikipedia. Instead, upload it to Wikipedia's sister site for images, Wikimedia Commons. For instructions, read through the Illustrating Wikipedia handbook.