Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Rowan College at Burlington County/Society, Ethics, and Technology (Fall 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' workspaces.

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

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.)

Assignment - Getting a Wikipedia account

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise

Evaluate an article

Week 2 Training and exercise will help you to know the criteria for a good article. Further, you will learn ways to create or work on your own articles for submission to Wikipedia. Finally, you will able to evaluate Wikipedia articles as good or not based on certain criteria, which are explained in the training.

Review below this week project assignment leading to the term paper

For this week, you are required to choose an article in Wikipedia that is related to one or a mix of the themes of the class such as Technology, Society, and Ethics. Then, create a section in your sandbox titled "Article Evaluation" where you will leave notes about your review of the article considering based on the assignment rubrics (Evaluate an Article). 

Assignment - Choose possible topics

Exercise

Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Review below this week project assignment leading to the term paper

This is the right time to settle on the Possible topic for your final project. This can be based on one of the articles you elect to review in Wikipedia or it can also be a product, concept, or idea pertaining to the topics discussed in this class such as technology, society, and ethics. However, there is no right or wrong answer to this question. 

Assignment - Add to an article

Exercise

Add a citation

Assignment - Exercise

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Review below this week project assignment leading to the term paper

This week's assignment is more practical because you will learn how to add citations to an article that you have selected in week 3 based on the topics discussed in this class such as technology, society, and ethics. You will be required at the end of the training to apply what you’ve learned by adding a citation to one of your selected articles. After that, please go into your sandbox and create a new section titled “assignment 5”, where you will also leave the citations you have added to your articles. This is really important.

Assignment - Start drafting your contribution to the Wikipedia article

Review below this week project assignment leading to the term paper

For your contribution to a Wikipedia article, add a 500 words as paragraphs to the article you selected in your Wikipedia sandbox and post this along with a brief description of your plans on the article’s talk page.

Begin working with other editors to polish your addition and fix any major issues. 

Continue research in preparation for expanding the article.

Compile a bibliography of relevant research and post it to the talk page of the article you are working on. Begin reading the sources.

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page. Review the Wikipedia on the course menu on Blackboard for more details on the requirements. Wikipedia Project Details

 PS: Don’t forget to create a new section with the title “assignment6” where you will write your paragraph.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Biographies

Books

Political Science

Science Communication

Sociology

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Assignment - Peer review an article

Guiding framework

Assignment - Peer reviews are complete

I hope everybody is comfortable with her/his selected article by now. This week focuses on how to critique an article created by a classmate.  At the end of the week, every student should finish reviewing their assigned articles.

Review below this week project assignment leading to the term paper

Here are the steps to follow in reviewing your fellow learner’s article and to complete assignment 7.

Firstly, click on the “students” tab on your course page. You will see the list of your peers’ articles, in front of their names. Then select the article you will mostly like to review.  

Secondly, when you are ready to perform the peer review, click on the “sandboxes” tab of whose article you selected. You will find the “sandboxes” right below his/her name. Then successively,

• Go to the talk page.
• Click "New section".
• Add a subject, something like "Samantha's peer review".
• Leave your notes in the space below. ( in the guiding framework of  assignment 7, you have a set of information that explains in details how to effectively evaluate your peer's work)
• Save the page by pressing on “ Publish Changes”

Once it is done, you successfully reviewed your peers' article.

Finally, go in your own sandbox and create a section titled: “Peer review Assignment 7 completed”:  where you will a note something like: “Samantha peer-reviewed John’s article”. This is very important.

PS: If you didn’t receive any feedback from your fellow classmates, you have the option of seeking assistance from Wikipedia’s staff to eventually receive valuable point of views about your work. The feedback can serve you to gradually improve your article.  

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.

Review below this week project assignment leading to the term paper

Once your article reviewed, and you made changes, that you would consider significant, Please create a new section in your sandbox, with the title clearly stating “assignment 9 completed” where you can say whether the suggestions that were made to you were useful to you or not.

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

Review below this week project assignment leading to the term paper

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace". Please follow the step by step instruction in the training section to learn how to move a new article out of the sandbox and how to move your page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Assignment - Exercise

Nominating your article for Did You Know

Assignment - Continue improving your article

Exercise

Add links to your article

Review below this week project assignment leading to the term paper

Now it's 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!

Assignment - Final article submission to Wikipedia

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

Guiding questions

Assignment - Original analytical paper

Review below this week project assignment leading to the term paper

Add to the paper going beyond your Wikipedia article to advance your own ideas, arguments, and original research about your topic for your final project paper. Please review the requirements for the final project on Blackboard.

Assignment - Completed Wikipedia assignment! Submit draft for the final project

Everyone should have finished all the work that needs to be completed on Wikipedia. You should now be ready to submit your final paper on Blackboard. Please make any last revision to the draft you submitted on Wikipedia, and go to Blackboard to upload your draft to be graded for your final project requirement.