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- Course name
- CNRS 503D
- Institution
- UBC
- Instructor
- Florence Yoon
- Wikipedia Expert
- Elysia (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Ancient and modern scholarship
- Course dates
- 2019-09-03 00:00:00 UTC – 2019-12-10 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 6
The course studies the evolution of two basic scholarly tools - the commentary and the book review - from Ancient Mesopotamia through to modern scholarship, across a couple of different (Western) cultures. Most of the course focuses on specialist academic tools and traditions, but this Wiki assignment is a way for us to think about the different aims and techniques of writing for a non-specialist audience. In the first instance Wikipedia articles should be closely related to the course content (e.g. hermeneutics, specific scholars), but there is some flexibility here.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 9 September 2019 | Friday, 13 September 2019
- Assignment - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 16 September 2019 | Friday, 20 September 2019
- Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)
- Milestones
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 23 September 2019 | Friday, 27 September 2019
- In class - Discussion
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 30 September 2019 | Friday, 4 October 2019
- In class - Discussion
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 7 October 2019 | Friday, 11 October 2019
- Assignment - Exercise
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 18 October 2019
- Assignment - Start drafting your contributions
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 21 October 2019 | Friday, 25 October 2019
- Milestones
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 28 October 2019 | Friday, 1 November 2019
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 4 November 2019
- Assignment - Peer review two articles
- In class - Discussion
- Milestones
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 15 November 2019
- Assignment - Respond to your peer review
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
- Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
- Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
- Assignment - Continue improving your article
Exercise
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 18 November 2019 | Friday, 22 November 2019
- Assignment - Final article
It's the final week to develop your article.
- Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
- Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!
- In class - In-class presentation
- Assignment - Reflective essay
- Milestones
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.