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- Course name
- Dante's Divine Comedy
- Institution
- Wellesley
- Instructor
- Laura Ingallinella
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Books
- Course dates
- 2021-02-15 00:00:00 UTC – 2021-04-07 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 15
This pilot project has been carried out by Wellesley College students who read and discuss the Divine Comedy by medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) in English translation. This masterpiece of world literature stands as a great entry point into questions of ethics, social justice, and gender.
In the course of the semester, students created new and revise existing Wikipedia entries on the medieval female and queer characters featured or mentioned by Dante in his work.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 15 February 2021 | Tuesday, 16 February 2021 | Thursday, 18 February 2021 | Friday, 19 February 2021
- Let's Begin
- ITAS 263 WikiDante 2021
Welcome to your ITAS 263 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' workspaces. Important: This 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
- 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 2
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 22 February 2021 | Tuesday, 23 February 2021 | Thursday, 25 February 2021 | Friday, 26 February 2021
- Assignment - Evaluate an Existing Wikipedia Article
Choose an existing Wikipedia article about a character that appears in the portion of the Divine Comedy discussed during Week 2 (Inferno 11-28), and evaluate it using the guidelines offered on the Wikipedia Dashboard.
Do not limit yourself to the official Wikipedia guidelines. Compare critically that article with the type of information offered on the Dante Encyclopedia (and, if you can speak Italian, the online Enciclopedia Dantesca; see the Resource page on the course website for links to both encyclopedias): Is there an entry for this character? And if there is, is it structured differently? For example, is the focus different? What secondary literature is cited there? If you were to improve that article, what would you add, change, or do?
Choose one of the following articles:
- Andrea dei Mozzi (Inferno 15)
- Bertran de Born (Inferno 28)
- Bonturo Dati (Inferno 22)
- Brunetto Latini (Inferno 15)
- Capaneus (Inferno 14)
- Ciampolo di Navarra (Inferno 21)
- Dis (Divine Comedy) (Inferno 11)
- Ezzelino III da Romano (Inferno 12)
- Franciscus Accursius (Inferno 15)
- Guido I da Montefeltro (Inferno 27)
- Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola (Inferno 12)
- Obizzo d’Este, Marquis of Ferrara (Inferno 12)
- Pietro della Vigna (Inferno 13)
- Reginaldo degli Scrovegni (Inferno 17)
- Tegghiaio Aldobrandi (Inferno 16)
- Loderingo degli Andalò (Inferno 23)
- Vanni Fucci (Inferno 24)
- Important!
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 1 March 2021 | Tuesday, 2 March 2021 | Thursday, 4 March 2021 | Friday, 5 March 2021
- Assignment - Exercise
- In class - Important!
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 8 March 2021 | Tuesday, 9 March 2021 | Thursday, 11 March 2021 | Friday, 12 March 2021
- Assignment - Add to an article
- 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
- Milestones
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 15 March 2021 | Tuesday, 16 March 2021 | Thursday, 18 March 2021 | Friday, 19 March 2021
- 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
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.
- Assignment - Polish your work
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 22 March 2021 | Tuesday, 23 March 2021 | Thursday, 25 March 2021 | Friday, 26 March 2021
- 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!
- Assignment - Reflective essay
- Milestones
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.