Editing Online Communities and Crowds (Spring 2025) (section)

==== Project assignments ==== 

Project assignments include the Wikipedia Assignment as well as the Community Advising Report. Brief descriptions follow here with additional details provided via linked pages.

===== [[Online_Communities_and_Crowds_(Spring_2025)/Wikipedia_assignment|The Wikipedia Assignment:]] =====

All members of the course will write (or at least significantly expand) Wikipedia articles. This assignment will take place over about six weeks starting at the beginning of the quarter. It will culminate in a brief written report offering advice/insights on the basis of your experience and materials you have encountered in the course. 

Please review [[Online_Communities_and_Crowds_(Spring_2025)/Wikipedia_assignment|this overview of the assignment and assessment criteria]]. Details of specific assignment milestones and deadlines will be (almost entirely) provided through the course WikiEdu Dashboard.

;Deadlines (See WikiEdu Dashboard for specific assignments and most up-to-date/accurate deadlines):
:Week 1: Create an account, join the course page, learn some basics
:Week 2: Learn some rules, evaluate an article, choose possible article topics
:Week 3: Edit existing articles/citations, finalize article selection, find sources for your article
:Week 4: Start more substantial editing your article
:Week 5: Peer review two article, continue improving your article.
:Week 6: Respond to peer review, polish your article.
:Week 7: Final revisions to articles; Wikipedia Advising Report (1000 words max) due.

'''The Wikipedia Advising Report''' will be due May 16, 5pm. Please [[Online_Communities_and_Crowds_(Spring_2025)/Wikipedia_assignment|see the assignment page]] for details regarding submission requirements.  

===== [[Online_Communities_and_Crowds_(Spring_2025)/Community_advising_report|Community Advising Report]] =====

You will also be required to complete a 2000 word (maximum—this works out to about 8-10pp if using a size 12 standard font, margins, and spacing) Community Advising Report. For this report, you are invited to serve as an expert advisor to the leaders and members of an online community or crowd and to provide evidence-based insights into how to better address a specific challenge they face. 

:'''[[Online_Communities_and_Crowds_(Spring_2025)/Community_advising_report|Detailed information about the assignment is available here]]

For this assignment, you will select your own community/crowd and challenge. I encourage you to choose a community/crowd of which you are a member/leader and where you could, even if only in theory, deliver your recommendations to other members/leaders and have some chance of seeing the recommendations debated/adopted. I expect you to draw on sources and evidence provided as part of the course (readings, lecture, other materials, etc.). You may, but absolutely do not need to draw on additional sources. Please note that I require you to write up a proposal and secure written approval of your chosen community/crowd and challenge. I also ask everyone to deliver a very brief "lightning talk" introducing the setting and challenge (and, if possible, recommendations) of your project during the final week of class.

: Topic proposal due for review/approval: May 21 (5pm)
: Lightning talk presentation of your project topic/setting: Week of June 2
: Report due: Tuesday, June 10 (5pm)