Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Penn State/Introduction to Women and Gender Studies (Spring 2017)
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- Course name
- Introduction to Women and Gender Studies
- Institution
- Penn State
- Instructor
- Meredith Field
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Women's Studies
- Course dates
- 2017-01-09 00:00:00 UTC – 2017-05-01 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 44
This assignment is optional for your final project. Your work should be completed by May 1st. To get full credit you will have to complete all the assigned trainings, have notes in your sandbox that includes the article critique, and have had to make a live edit on a Wikipedia article of your choosing. This Dashboard page will track all of your work. You can check on your training completion status and see your edit histories in the Students tab.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 5 April 2017 | Friday, 7 April 2017
- Introduction to the Wikipedia project
Welcome to our Wikipedia project timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for our course. You need to complete all three parts of the project by May 1st, though you can progress through them at your own pace. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
Our 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, and to learn a bit more about the project, please review the following handouts:
- Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 10 April 2017 | Wednesday, 12 April 2017 | Friday, 14 April 2017
- Assignment - Part 1
- Create your account & take introductory trainings
- 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. You can see a list of other students who have opted in to this assignment on the Students tab above.
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 17 April 2017 | Wednesday, 19 April 2017 | Friday, 21 April 2017
- Assignment - Part 2
- Critique & Evaluate Wikipedia articles
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 one article from each of the following lists:
- As you read, consider the following 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?
- How does the way Wikipedia discusses the topic compare to how we've discussed the issue in class?
- How do the articles compare with each other? Are the tones different or the same?
- Check the "Talk" page - what conversation is the Wikipedia community having behind the scenes about how to represent these important issues? Does what you see there surprise you?
- Create a section in your sandbox space where you leave your thoughts, review, and critique.
- 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 — Absolutklimt (talk) 14:03, 31 March 2017 (UTC).
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 24 April 2017 | Wednesday, 26 April 2017
- Assignment - Part 3
- Add to an article
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation or making a small improvement to an article. There are a few ways you can do this:
- Take the "Sources and Citations" and "Plagiarism" trainings linked below.
- Review the Editing Wikipedia articles on Biographies and the Editing Wikipedia articles on Women's studies handouts as relevant.
- Select an article from one of the following lists and assign it to yourself on the Students tab above.
- Do two of the following:
- Add 1-2 new sentences of content, and cite that statement to a reliable source, as you learned in the online training.
- Update the references or citations included in the article.
- Copyedit the article.
- Re-write a paragraph that is poorly written or hard to understand.