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This is an introductory course in media and communication. Students will be contributing to Wikipedia pages about media to learn about the Wikipedia contribution process and community, improve their writing, and to improve Wikipedia's coverage of their topic of choice.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia 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, please review the following handouts:
You will not receive credit for any further work on this project until you have fully completed this step. The same goes for each subsequent step.
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article related to the course (anything about any form of media is fine) and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article. First, complete the training module below.
There are two ways you can do this:
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing. First, complete the training below.
Creating a new article?
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
You probably have some feedback from other students, your professor, and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Creating a new article?
It's the final week to develop your article.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
First, go to the article(s) you edited this semester and “View history” to see what, if anything, has been changed since you contributed to this article and who changed it. Write a reflective essay (2–5 pages) on your Wikipedia contributions. Submit on Blackboard.
Consider the following questions as you reflect on your Wikipedia assignment: