Editing Online Communities and Crowds (Winter 2022)/Wikipedia assignment
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Please note: Since these assignments are stretched out over six+ weeks, we recommend that you take notes and reflect on your experience throughout. This will help you complete the reflection essay much more easily. | Please note: Since these assignments are stretched out over six+ weeks, we recommend that you take notes and reflect on your experience throughout. This will help you complete the reflection essay much more easily. | ||
= | === Identifying potential topics for your articles === | ||
== Identifying potential topics for your articles == | |||
You will need to create a new article on Wikipedia with your teams. But how can you find a topic that is worthy of an article and also not already covered on Wikipedia? As it turns out, there are many resources to help you with this created by Wikipedia editors! A few suggestions and examples follow below. | You will need to create a new article on Wikipedia with your teams. But how can you find a topic that is worthy of an article and also not already covered on Wikipedia? As it turns out, there are many resources to help you with this created by Wikipedia editors! A few suggestions and examples follow below. | ||
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It's also worth noting that you can absolutely come up with topics on your own without using any of the lists below. If you have some knowledge about a topic that you and your group members agree to be notable and worthy of a Wikipedia article we encourage you to propose it as a topic! | It's also worth noting that you can absolutely come up with topics on your own without using any of the lists below. If you have some knowledge about a topic that you and your group members agree to be notable and worthy of a Wikipedia article we encourage you to propose it as a topic! | ||
=== Suggested lists of potential article topics === | ==== Suggested lists of potential article topics ==== | ||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red "Women in red" (WiR)] is an initiative across Wikipedia that seeks to create and populate articles on notable women to address their disproportionate underrepresentation in the encyclopedia. The WiR project maintains a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Redlist_index redlist index], which is an index of mostly red links for potential article topics that you might pursue. | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red "Women in red" (WiR)] is an initiative across Wikipedia that seeks to create and populate articles on notable women to address their disproportionate underrepresentation in the encyclopedia. The WiR project maintains a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Redlist_index redlist index], which is an index of mostly red links for potential article topics that you might pursue. | ||
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Last, but not least, you might get good ideas from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/List_of_stubs list of "stub" articles"]. Stubs are very short, very incomplete articles. For the purposes of the assignment, it's the only kind of existing article the teaching team will consider you working on. Please note that if you want to work on a stub, the teaching team will need to approve this and you'll be expected to expand any stub article substantially. | Last, but not least, you might get good ideas from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/List_of_stubs list of "stub" articles"]. Stubs are very short, very incomplete articles. For the purposes of the assignment, it's the only kind of existing article the teaching team will consider you working on. Please note that if you want to work on a stub, the teaching team will need to approve this and you'll be expected to expand any stub article substantially. | ||
=== Assignment-specific notes on assessment === | |||
We will assess your individual and collective work in several ways throughout this assignment. All of the milestones and tasks involved in editing or completing learning modules about Wikipedia will all be assessed on a credit/no-credit basis. If you complete these tasks in a satisfactory way by the respective due date, you will receive full credit for each one. We (the teaching team) will evaluate the reflection essay and will assign each essay a letter grade based on the evaluation criteria described below. | |||
==== Evaluation criteria specific to Wikipedia reflection essays: ==== | |||
A successful reflection essay will possess the following characteristics: | |||
* Provide excellent writing and insights consistent with the [[User:Aaronshaw/Assessment|general assessment rubric for written assignments]] in the course. | |||
* Describe and comment on your experience in Wikipedia. What did you do? Any surprises along the way? Anything go as you expected? | |||
* Asses your own work. Discuss aspects of the assignment and your work that went particularly well or poorly. Analyze how you (and your group) got your work done and whether/how you might have done things more effectively. | |||
* Connect your experience in Wikipedia to at least one relevant dynamic or challenge we have talked about in other parts of the course (e.g., newcomer socialization, motivation, governance, inclusion, identity, etc.). Which elements or challenges were most relevant or important to your experience? Why? | |||
* Identify aspects of your experience that could inform changes to the course or this sequence of Wikipedia assignments in the future. |