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This course introduces students to the tenets of reading, researching, and writing by investigating global culture histories and modern geo-politics. The central themes about which students will write are the real and imagined, political and social boundaries we find in the world today and in the past. Focusing on peer review and collaborative drafting processes, we will examine quantitative and qualitative evidence of how humans have traversed borders to bring cultures into contact and conflict. A major project involves public scholarship on artifacts in the Logan Museum of Anthropology.
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:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (To avoid hitting Wikipedia's account creation limits, this is best done outside of class. Only 6 new accounts may be created per day from the same IP address.)
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
Due Sunday 9/24 at noon
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article related to the course (and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page for extra credit). This is worth 5% of your final grade in the course. You will be penalized 10% of your grade on this assignment for every 24-hour period in which it is late.
Due Fri. 9/29 at 11:59 pm
This assignment is worth 5% of your final course grade. Late completion will result in a penalty of 10% of the assignment grade per 24-hour period or fraction thereof.
Choose an article. Read through it, thinking about ways to improve the language, such as fixing grammatical mistakes. Then, make the appropriate changes. You don’t need to contribute new information to the article.
Make any necessary or desirable changes to improve the article's clarity, structure, and style. You should make at least four changes and may earn up to 5 total points for completing this task.
It's time to choose an article and assign it to yourself.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article. There are two ways you can do this:
You will be graded out of three points. One point is earned for completing the Training Module below. Two points are earned for enhancing an article with your addition. If your addition is not well sourced, however, you earn one point. Zero points are earned for not completing the assignment.
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Complete details are forthcoming (complete draft due 11/20)
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
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
Complete draft due 11/20 (details forthcoming)
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. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
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?
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
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 by Tuesday 12/19 at noon.