Editing Online Communities (UW COM481 Fall 2024)/Wikipedia Advising Report (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:Benjamin Mako Hill/Assessment | writing rubric]] for details on my expectations regarding the content of the 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 a user?
# 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.

The teaching team will give everybody in the course feedback on their assignment. The basic structure is shorter but extremely similar to what you will do in the final community advising project. As a result, you can treat this as a "mid-term" and make adjustments based on feedback.