Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Muhlenberg College/Women and Art (Fall 2014)/Timeline

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Timeline

Week Two

• Create a Wikipedia user account
• Start the on-line student orientation to Wikipedia: Wikipedia:Student
• Read and analyze Wiki articles on Hildegard of Bingen, Herrad of Landsberg, and Christine de Pizan.

Week Three

• Complete the on-line student orientation
• For Chadwick Ch. 2 and all subsequent chapters, look at the Wikipedia entries on the artists discussed. Analyze their quality: focus on comprehensiveness, citations, neutrality of point of view.
• Create a user page: Wikipedia:User pages
• Join the list of students on the course page
• Leave a message for a classmate on her user talk page
• Preview the FemTechNet video "Editing on Wikipedia": http://vimeo.com/64973792

Week Four

• Understand what "notability" means in deciding whether a topic rates a Wikipedia article: Wikipedia:Notability
• Critically evaluate an existing Wikipedia article on a woman artist. You may decide that your article is exemplary–explain why.
• Research and list 3-5 articles on your user page that you may edit.

Week Five

• Read the Wiki page on acceptable sources: Wikipedia:Acceptable sources
• Understand what "verifiable" and "published" mean with regard to sources: Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources

Week Six

• Read the Wiki page on plagiarism: Wikipedia:Plagiarism
• Add 1-2 sentences of new information with a citation to one of the articles you've selected to edit

Week Seven

• Select the article you will edit. You should plan to add at least four paragraphs to the entry, with in-line citations for verifiable sources
• Assemble a bibliography of acceptable sources
• Hand in an outline or description of your planned edits and your bibliography

Week Nine

• Write a summary of the content you intend to add on the talk page of your selected article
• Begin to edit the article in your sandbox: Help:My sandbox

Week Ten

• Add images to your article from Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Continue to work on your editing

Week Eleven

• Select two of your classmates' articles to peer review
• Does the article have a lead section giving an overview of the subject? Does it have a clear organization? Is the coverage balanced? Is the content neutral? Are the sources reliable?
• Add your suggestions to the talk page of your classmate's article

Week Twelve

• Revise your article based on your peers' suggestions
• For discussion, think about neutrality, information and media literacy, and the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia
• Hand in an evaluation of your experience editing Wikipedia