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This course involves an examination of personality traits, the sources of differences among people, how to measure personality, and other individual differences. The emphasis is on major theories of personality, including major personality traits, as well as recent research in the field.
As we talked about in class and discussed in the syllabus, instead of doing a more traditional paper, you are going to learn how to analyze Wikipedia and then how to create your own articles for Wikipedia. The milestones and assignments listed below are spread out to make it so that nothing will be overwhelming. Organizing the assignments in this way also gives you more time to become comfortable with Wikipedia prior to adding to an article yourself.
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.
This 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:
Begin a blog about your experiences. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, or reflect on the research and writing process. You can create as many blogs are you like to help track your progress on the project. One helpful rule of thumb may be to create at least one blog entry each week. Blogs can be as long or as short as you like - keep in mind they will serve as a useful documentation of your experiences for your reflective essay due at the end of the semester.
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 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:
Review Wikipedia's rules for topics related to medicine, human health, and psychology. Technically every possible topic we will cover is related to psychology. Some topics may be more health or bio/medical based than others.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article. Use the trainings here ("Adding citations" and "Plagiarism" - Trainings due 2/21) to learn how to appropriately add to an article. There are two ways you can find articles to add citations too:
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.
Keep in mind the plagiarism training and discussions from previous weeks
Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
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'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. The "Contributing images and media files" training is available here in case it is of use. You are not required to complete this training or to add media/images to your article if it is not relevant to the edits you are making.
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!
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Creating a new article?
Prepare for an in-class presentation about your Wikipedia editing experience
Present about your Wikipedia editing experience.
Consider the following questions as you reflect on your Wikipedia assignment:
It's the final week to develop your article.
Write a reflective essay (2–5 pages) on your Wikipedia contributions.
Consider the following questions as you reflect on your Wikipedia assignment:
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.