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The purpose of this 6-week extra credit assignment is to take what students learn through critical reading and analysis of the literature and share it in an open and accessible way with others interested in their topical areas of interest. This is based on a belief that knowledge sharing, like karma, benefits both the sharer and the receiver. As the primary deliverable of the Research Process and Methodology course is the identification of a researchable problem, a research question, and a literature review, sharing our depth of knowledge with the wider community benefits our credibility as a developing expert in our own area of interest.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline for #SPSRPM! This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for our course.
Our course has been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page. This person works on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, and it is this person's role to help us with things that we get stuck on.
While all things on Wikipedia are intended to be open and public, your name and contact information will not be available to anybody except the instructor and the Wikipedia Content Expert who is assigned to help (if needed). In the world of Wikipedia editing, you will be known and respected by your contributions and edits, and not by your name, title, or other personally-identifiable information.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
HINT:
You may want to right-click on all the links listed on this page and open them in a new browser tab. The system does not allow me to add that to the coding, and I find that maintaining this page while opening documents, files, videos, and such in new tabs helps me not lose my place here.
OPTIONAL:
You may want to create your Wikipedia account user name and earn badges through completing the online The Wikipedia Adventure. People have reported that using this free online training module is helpful in learning the system, and the badges you will acquire through the process may look pretty nifty on your User page as well!
If you are not into badges or like that instructional style, you may find the Wikipedia editing in under 25 mins video that a colleague in Edinburgh created to be useful, especially related to the Visual editor.
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You may find some additional resources on Using talk pages and the Wiki markup cheatsheet to be helpful. Also, you may find the short video Navigating Wikipedia's front page to be interesting (and helpful!).
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While this extra credit is intended to be done weekly, allowing for questions to be asked and answered, you can move faster or slower through it as you need.
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.
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You may want to see the Preferences, such as for notifications and appearance, for your Wikipedia account. Set them as you want, and make sure you are logged in before doing any activity!
Complete the 3 parts to this week's assignment. Make sure you are signed into Wikipedia before doing any of the work. Please read this assignment in its entirety before starting it.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR WEEK 3
By the end of Week 3, students will be able to:
- Complete at least one copyedit to an article on Wikipedia
- Summarize their edit in the Edit summary (and sign it if using the Source editor)
- Post a new section message with a link to their edit on the professor's Talk page
Choose a course-related article, such as the one you identified in the last assignment (above) or based on your topical area of interest.
HINT:
While our university course uses the APA Manual of Style, that is not used on Wikipedia. You may find the Wikipedia Manual of Style helpful.
If you did not see the Using talk pages and the Wiki markup cheatsheet during the first week, now may be a good time to see them...
OPTIONAL:
You may want to put a This is a new user template, Newbie-biting template, and / or User student template on your own User page.
Please review that you completed all 3 of the Objectives (above) in order to receive the extra credit for Week 3.
Complete the 4 parts to this week's assignment. Make sure you are signed into Wikipedia before doing any of the work. Please read this assignment in its entirety before starting it.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR WEEK 4
By the end of Week 4, students will be able to:
- Edit at least one article on Wikipedia (and include an edit summary and sign it via Samantha (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:26, 6 January 2018 (UTC))
- Insert a citation to provide evidence for the Wikipedia edit
- Identify elements of plagiarism and how to avoid it
- Post a new section message summarizing and linking to their edit at the end of the professor's Talk page
This week, you will familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding adding or editing a citation to an article.
HINT:
You may find the Wikipedia editing in under 25 mins video useful, especially related to the Visual editor. Likewise, the Wikipedia Manual of Style is helpful, as are the Editing Basics training (linked below) and the Editing Wikipedia documentation may help.
OPTIONAL:
Want to see how this can work in new areas outside your areas of expertise? Check out the Citation Hunt tool, which shows unreferenced statements from articles. First, evaluate whether the statement in question is true! An uncited statement could just be lacking a reference or it could be inaccurate or misleading. Reliable sources on the subject will help you choose whether to add it or correct the statement.
Please review that you completed all 4 of the Objectives (above) in order to receive the extra credit for Week 4.
Complete the 3 parts to this week's assignment. Make sure you are signed into Wikipedia before doing any of the work. Please read this assignment in its entirety before starting it.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR WEEK 5
By the end of Week 5, students will be able to:
- Edit at least two articles on Wikipedia (and include edit summaries + signing them via Samantha (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:26, 6 January 2018 (UTC))
- Insert citations to provide evidence for the Wikipedia edits
- Post a new section message summarizing and linking to their edits at the end of the professor's Talk page
Based on the literature you are reading for your course project, add 1-2 sentences to any two course-related articles on Wikipedia, and cite the statement(s) to a reliable source, as you learned in the online training. This is the same task as last week, but you are doing it to two articles on Wikipedia based on any of the work you are doing for our course content.
HINT:
You may find the Wikipedia editing in under 25 mins video useful, especially related to the Visual editor. Likewise, the Wikipedia Manual of Style is helpful, as are the Editing Basics training (linked below) and the Editing Wikipedia documentation may help.
Please review that you completed all 3 of the Objectives (above) in order to receive the extra credit for Week 5.
Intertwine is a platform where you you will be chatting with student editors enrolled in other Wiki Education courses. This week, the featured activities include:
Sign up for a session here. If you haven’t logged in using your Wikipedia account, you will first be redirected to Wikipedia logging page. After logging in using your Wikipedia credentials, you will be able to sign up for our activity.
Complete the 4 parts to this week's assignment. Make sure you are signed into Wikipedia before doing any of the work. Please read this assignment in its entirety before starting it.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR WEEK 6
By the end of Week 6, students will be able to:
- Edit at least two articles on Wikipedia (and include edit summaries + signing them via Samantha (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:26, 6 January 2018 (UTC))
OR
- Locate or create an appropriate photo, illustration, or piece of video/audio to add to an article.
- Insert citations to provide evidence for the Wikipedia edits
- Post a new section message summarizing and linking to their edits at the end of the professor's Talk page
You will either repeat the same assignment as last week with two additional articles OR add visuals to an article on Wikipedia.
Please review that you completed all 3 of the Objectives (above) in order to receive the extra credit for Week 6.