Wikipedia:Writing Wikipedia Articles course/Round 1/Week 1

	Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond
	a free six week course

This page details homework assignments for Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond,
a free course offered through Peer to Peer University's School of Open.

Week 1 Homework

Are you ready? Of course you are!

Do:

• Complete this brief survey providing basic info about yourself
• Create a Wikipedia user account • Instructional video • Why create an account?
• Create a basic Wikipedia user page • Instructional video • About user pages
• Introduce yourself on the course roster - a few sentences will suffice! In addition to a general introduction, please answer the following questions:
  • What are you hoping to get out of this course?
  • Have you ever edited an article on Wikipedia (or another wiki)?
• Edit one or two articles anywhere on Wikipedia: make a sentence more clear, fix a typo, etc. You may want to use your sandbox. • Instructional video

Read:

• The following chapters in How Wikipedia Works (PDF) (2008) (you may have read one and two already):
  • Chap. 1. What's in Wikipedia?
  • Chap. 2. The World Gets a Free Encyclopedia
  • Chap. 4: Understanding and Evaluating an Article
  • Chap. 6: Good Writing and Research
• Mahzarin Banaji (December 2010), Wikipedia is the Encyclopedia that Anybody Can Edit. But Have You? Observer Vol.23, No.10.

Watch:

• If you'd like to review the "view history" tab (covered in the Week 1 webinar), see this instructional video.

Week 1 Extra Credit

Ready to dig a little deeper? Take on one or more of these:

Do:

• Read the Open Educational Resources article, or another article on the Communicate OER project Content page. Consider how you might improve the article.
• If you see simple fixes you'd like to make, edit the article.
• Comment on an OER-related talk page (see the Communicate OER Content page for ideas)
• Review one of these articles on the relevant talk page - i.e. is it relevant/thorough? What would you like to see changed, added or deleted? (Hint: the "talk" tab is located just to the right of the "article" page at top left for every article.

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All done?

• Return to the course overview here on Wikipedia.
• Return to the main P2PU School of Open course home page

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