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We cover the anatomy and evolutionary history of vertebrate animals. Students will be contributing both written and visual content to existing Wikipedia pages that are relevant to the study of vertebrate anatomy.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with me to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
This page breaks down contributing to a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
Individual Assignment Due Friday, Feb. 9
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Individual Assignment Due Friday, Feb. 16
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article related to the course and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Group Assignment Due Friday, Feb. 16 at the end of class.
Check out the spreadsheet where you signed up and find the other individuals who evaluated the same page and sit with them on Friday. Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, let's consider some additional questions.
Be sure to review: Editing Wikipedia pages 9 and 17
Your sandbox is a space where you can draft your work before it goes live on Wikipedia. In these first weeks, your sandbox is a space where you will complete your individual assignments. As time goes on and you are assigned to a group, you will continue to draft your work in your sandbox first, and then will begin to move it to the designated group member's sandbox (or if that is you, your team members will move their work to your sandbox). In the space below, I am providing you with some sample sandboxes created by previous students so that you can see the progression of the assignments and whole project and find a way to organize your work.
The inclusion of these examples is not meant to dictate how you organize your sandbox. These are simply examples of sandbox formats used in the past for projects that worked well.
First, some general guidelines:
Sample Sandboxes:
It is unlikely given the objectives of our course that any of you will be editing medical topics. However, if you find that this becomes relevant to your work and you are interested enough to take on that additional commitment, please review Wikipedia's rules for topics related to medicine, human health, and psychology.
All medical topic articles must be cleared by me before you edit them.
Individual Assignment Due Friday, Feb. 23
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding to an article. There are a few ways you can do this. Start here:
Assignment checklist:
Individual Assignment Due Friday, March 2 11pm
Training modules will continue to appear in the timeline as relevant for you to review. However, by now you should have completed all of the training modules relevant to our project.
Group assignment, due Friday, March 10.
EVERYONE MUST HAVE TRAINING COMPLETE AS WELL
that you will work on as both a team and individuals.
When students enroll in a course page they will get an automatic edit made to their Sandbox that includes a "Get Help" button similar to the one on their course page.
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By clicking that "Get Help" button students can request feedback on their drafts from their content experts.
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Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Assignment, due Friday, March 16.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing and developing your draft image or media file contributions along with your cited content.
REMEMBER: Make sure that you do your due diligence by searching Wikipedia itself first. you do not want to start generating content or pages that have already been started elsewhere.
General Advice:
For improving an existing article:
Creating a new article
Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Draft a new Article
Assignment, due Friday, March 23.
Choose an article. Read through it, thinking about ways to improve the language, such as fixing grammatical mistakes. Then, make the appropriate changes. You don’t need to contribute new information to the article.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Group assignment, due Monday, April 9.
I updated this due date due to the fact that you have an exam on the 6th.
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
Assignment, due Friday, April 13th.
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
Assignment, due Friday, April 20.
You'll want to find or create an appropriate photo, illustration, or piece of video/audio to add to an article.
Group assignment. Will have time in lab to work on this together a bit.
Do not rush to move materials if you are not ready. Edit in your Sandbox and move small bits at a time.Move one thing this week.
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback and your second edit, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Creating a new article?
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
Group assignment, due Friday, May 11th.
It's the final week to develop your article.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
Assignment Due Friday 5/18.
Write a reflective essay (2–5 pages) on your Wikipedia contributions.
Consider the following questions as you reflect on your Wikipedia assignment: