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This course covers gender and sexuality in early Christian communities, including notable women, issues around women's leadership, monasteries and celibate communities, gender and martyrdom, saints' lives, etc. The Wikipedia assignment will involve creating new articles or editing/adding content to articles on notable figures, topics, and places in the course.
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resources:
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
From Dr. S for the EVALUATE WIKIPEDIA exercise:
This Week's unit should take 1.5-2 hours. We are not meeting on Wednesday, and the Wednesday reading is short, so you should have time.
THE LINK to the ACTIVITY is on PAGE 2 of the EXERCISE. Read the slides through and go back to Page 2
Do the above exercise (short!) and then start compiling your bibliography. The above exercise provides guidance as to where to compile your bibliography in Wikipedia. You also should have your own list, as well.
Resources for research:
You should get started this week and continue to work on it next week. The "due date" is a placeholder for starting. You will probably keep working through next week.
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
Everyone has begun working on their article drafts. What does this mean?
To earn a Satisfactory this milestone assignment you should have:
To earn an Excellent on this milestone: fulfill the above requirements, complete all exercises in previous weeks, few to no technical or formatting or spelling/grammar errors.
Everyone continues writing their article drafts
Make substantial edits/additions and address Dr. S's comments on your Milestone 1 evaluation (see comments in Canvas). Be ready for peer review next week!
Peer review due before class begins Wednesday April 12. You will discuss peer reviews in groups after the student-led discussion in class.
Dr. S tips and instructions for peer review:
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.
Resources:
Note from Dr. S:
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Every student has responded to peer review on their User Talk Page and has made one or more edits in their Article Sandbox to address one or more comments. (While responding to at least one comment is due April 14, students should continue to take into account all the comments and address all useful ones before the final article editing is due.)
No extensions for Wednesday's peer review since your peer must have your reviews to do their own work for Friday. Tokens can be used for extensions to Friday's responses.
Rubric for Satisfactory on Peer Review: fulfills at least #s 1-4 & 6 below.
Excellent (earns token -- the final WP evaluation is what counts towards Excellence credits for an A in the class) fulfills all rubric criteria:
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.
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!
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
DR S. NOTE: You do not need to begin moving this week if you are not ready.You can begin moving next week.
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.