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This course covers the geology, environmental science, energy policy, history, and economic transitions of the Appalachian region.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
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:
Choose an article on Wikipedia where you are very familiar with the topic.
Answer the following questions:
Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference or are there a lot statements without citations? Where does the information come from? Are the sources neutral or biased, and if biased, is that bias noted in the Wikipedia entry?
Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? Did anything on the talk page surprise you?
Is the article part of any projects (see the Talk page)? If so, which ones and how is it rated (low/high importance, etc.?) If it is not part of a project, just say N/A.
How is the article rated? Does it have any flags on the main page (i.e. The neutrality of this article is disputed, this page needs to be updated, etc.)? Is it marked as a stub (see the talk page to see if it has been marked a stub), or is a full article?
How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way you'd talk about it?
1If appropriate, make a small edit to the page to improve it (add a citation, a link, a clarification, etc.). Don’t delete anything or other editors will get mad. Large edits by new users (i.e. edits that are more than one sentence) will cause experienced editors to get extremely mad.
Go to the Talk page and click Edit Source. Leave a note on the bottom of the Talk page (or in the appropriate location on the Talk page, if there is a lot of material there and it's organized in a specific way) stating what you changed and why. If appropriate, provide a suggestion for improvement or updated information (i.e. provide additional links, note bias, or provide an update), or ask a question to the other editors on the Talk page. Sign your name to your statement simply by clicking the tildes at the bottom of the edit box and then click Publish Changes at the bottom of the page:
Choose an article from the list of available articles on ASULearn. I will then assign it to you via the Dashboard.
1. Choose an article from the list of articles on ASULearn. You can also choose a different article if it is relevant to the class and needs updating. Check with us first to ensure it is relevant.
There's a variety of reasons why these sites are off-limits (we can discuss these reasons as a class or in person), but the main one is that they are too broad in terms of topic. You can use the links in them as a jumping off point if you're stumped for ideas.
2. Use the following graphic to determine if the page you're planning to edit is feasible.
A page is particularly good for editing if it doesn't have a lot of information. Return to the "Finding your Article" module if you need help finding an article that is a good candidate for this assignment.
Step 1: Getting started
Step 2: Additional Sources
Open up your Talk page on your sandbox.
In your Talk page, compile a list of 5 or more relevant, reliable books, journal articles, government documents, or other sources. You can use the relevant guides from Wikipedia (below) to help you get sources for your page:
Under each source, discuss how you plan to integrate it into the page. Click Publish Page at the bottom of the page.
Things to remember to address:
Some of my students in the past have considered "drafts" to be the same as rough outlines... do not be those students!!! You want a finished product here that will ready to go out for peer review by Wikipedia editors before making it live
You will be graded on everything you have completed up through 4/11/19.
These include:
I will be grading your work and providing suggestions for improvement.
You will be graded on:
Answer via ASULearn:
What did you learn about Wikipedia during the first article evaluation assignment (the one where you looked at something that interested you) that you didn't realize before? Did it make you look at the topic in a new way?
Provide a summary of your edits for the first article you critiqued and why you felt they were a valuable addition to the article. Did your edits remain throughout the semester or have they since been removed by someone else? If they were removed by someone else, what reasons were given?
Did you receive feedback from other Wikipedia editors outside of this class for your researched article for class, and if so, how did you respond to and handle that feedback?
Based on your experiences with other editors (not other students, but total strangers), do you think that you have contributed a better understanding of your topic to the general public? If you did not receive comments from other editors, just say "N/A" here.
What did you learn from contributing to Wikipedia? Was it harder or easier than you thought it would be?
How does a Wikipedia assignment compare to other projects you've done in the past for other classes?