Editing Online Communities and Crowds (Spring 2025)/Wikipedia assignment (section)

=== Assessment ===

First and foremost, your report will be evaluated on the degree to which it provides useful, informed, and actionable advice to the Wikipedia community and the Wikimedia Foundation. It will also be evaluated on the degree to which you engage with the course material. See the [[User:Aaronshaw/Assessment#Written_work | assessment rubric for written work]] for details on my expectations regarding the content of papers. A successful essay will do the following things:

# Provide detailed, concrete, and actionable advice to the Wikipedia community and the Wikimedia Foundation. What should Wikipedia think about doing? What should they think about changing?
# Justify your recommendations regarding the theories and principles we've covered. Why should your recommendations be taken more seriously than just random advice from someone on the internet?
# To the extent it is relevant, feel free to comment directly on your experience in Wikipedia. When you do so, connect your experiences in Wikipedia explicitly to the concepts in the course material we have covered.

You will receive comments and feedback on your assignment. Also, please note that this assignment is shorter but extremely similar to what you will do in your Community Advising Report at the end of the quarter. As a result, you can treat this as a "mid-term" and make adjustments to your approach based on feedback.