Editing Online Communities and Crowds (Winter 2022)/Wikipedia assignment
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== The reflection essay == | == The reflection essay == | ||
The reflection essay serves as a capstone to the Wikipedia Assignment. | The reflection essay serves as a capstone to the Wikipedia Assignment. For this essay, we ask you to reflect on your experience with The Wikipedia Assignment in about 1000-1500 words. | ||
== Getting help or advice about Wikipedia == | == Getting help or advice about Wikipedia == | ||
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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. |