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The course will focus on developing or improving Wikipedia pages devoted to African-American writers.
Student | Assigned | Reviewing |
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Misfit2001! | Amanda Spann | |
Jtjustsaidit | Asmau Ahmed | |
DroppingJewels2001 | Marcus McCraven | |
The Drought | Marcus McCraven | |
Story Plucker | Amanda Spann, Jazem bathea | |
Zayford1314 | Kat Calvin | |
QBrown01 | Mary Lou Allison Gardner Little | |
Snapdaball | Kat Calvin, Glokk40Spaz | |
Calypso99 | Asmau Ahmed |
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.
This term, your class is participating in a special initiative (funded by the Broadcom Foundation) to create new Wikipedia biographies of people in technological fields (broadly defined) from historically underrepresented communities. In particular, you will be tasked with choosing an individual who has made notable contributions to a technological field (current or past) in the United States who belongs to one of the following communities: African American, Hispanic/Latinx, or Native American.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page. Throughout this project, you will be able to submit different stages of your work to your Wikipedia Expert for review on the Dashboard.
You may choose a subject for the biography from the list provided or you may independently find an individual through your own research. Remember, you will be creating an entirely new entry on Wikipedia, so make sure the person you select does not already have an article.
Your work this term will serve as a critical step forward in making Wikipedia more representative and equitable!
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resources:
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.)
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
For this exercise, you may wish to choose a biography to better understand how they are written on Wikipedia. Biographies generally follow a standard template. It will be helpful to familiarize yourself with the structure of biographies on Wikipedia before you start on your own page.
Suggested biographies:
You may choose an individual from the list provided or you may wish to identify someone not on the list. As you're considering who to work on, review the following:
Resources:
It's time to start building out your bibliography for your Wikipedia assignment! You've likely already collected a few sources about your person, but now it's time to take a deeper dive. Consider the following as you're finding sources for this project:
It's time to start drafting your article! Before you move the article into Wikipedia's main live article space, you'll draft your work in your sandbox as outlined in the training module. Remember, biographies on Wikipedia follow a standard form. Please adhere to this structure as you write your draft.
Be sure to submit your draft for review when you're ready. Do not move the work before a member of the Wiki Education team has reviewed it.
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resources:
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
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:
Now that your draft has been reviewed, it's time to create your new Wikipedia entry! Follow the instructions on how to create a new article in the training module above to move your biography from your sandbox to Wikipedia's live article space.
Remember, do not move your work until it has been reviewed by someone at Wiki Education.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
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.
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!
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.