Editing Interpersonal Media (Fall 2015) (section)

==== Wikipedia Task #6 ====
;Task: Finalize article and turn in reflection essay
;Due Date: Sunday November 8
;Deliverables: Finish article in Wikipedia and turn in link to article in Canvas. Turn in reflection essay as subpage of your Wikipedia userpage and turn in link in Canvas.
:''Post your reflection as a subpage of your userpage. For example, I would create mine with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Benjamin_Mako_Hill/Reflections as the URL. You should replace "Benjamin_Mako_Hill" with your Wikipedia username. You can also just go to your userpage by clicking on your username on Wikipedia and then adding "/Reflections" at the end of the the URL.''
:''When you go that page, it will say '''Wikipedia does not have a user page with this exact name.'''''
:''You can create the new page by just clicking the "Create" tab on that page. When you're done, you can paste the URL into Canvas.''
;Maximum length for reflection essay: 750 words (~3 pages double spaced)

Your Wikipedia article will be evaluated based on your demonstrated understanding of Wikipedia rules and policies. Is it a good article by Wikipedia's standards?

In addition to finishing up your Wikipedia article, everybody should turn in an essay reflecting on your experience contributing to Wikipedia in light of your experience and the course material.

Your essay will be evaluated on the degree to which you engage with the course material. See [https://mako.cc/teaching/assessment.html the writing rubric] for details on my expectations in terms of the content of the papers. A successful essay will do the following three things:

# Comment directly on your experience in Wikipedia. What did you do and what did you learn?
# Connect your experience in Wikipedia explicitly to the concepts in the course material we have covered. Which topics or issues were relevant or important? Why?
# Reflect on what parts of the theories or concepts we covered applied or didn't? What would you change or add based on your experience?

I will give everybody in the course feedback on their assignment. The basic structure is similar to what you will be doing in the final project. As a result, you can treat this as a "mid-term" and make adjustments based on feedback.