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Course name

CHEM 4610 F22

Institution

ON Tech University

Instructor

Kevin Coulter

Wikipedia Expert

Ian (Wiki Ed)

Subject

Bioinorganic Chemistry

Course dates

2022-09-06 00:00:00 UTC – 2022-12-22 23:59:59 UTC

Approximate number of student editors

10

CHEM 4610 Fall 2022 Course Description: Survey of metalloenzymes highlighting their biological occurrence and function, structure-function relationships, and current chemistry research with biomimetic complexes; also an introduction to the specialized inorganic analysis techniques EPR and XAS/EXAFS used to study metalloenzymes. Metalloenzyme examples include (as time permits): biological iron transport and storage, carbonic anhydrase, Marcus Electron-Transfer Theory, iron-sulfur proteins, blue copper proteins, Photosystem II, superoxide dismutase, haemoglobin, cytochrome P450, nitrogenase, vitamin B12, CO2 fixation in methanogens and cofactor F430

GENERAL INTRODUCTION (WIKIPEDIA ASSIGNMENT)

Our Ontario Tech CHEM 4610 course will be an integral part of WikiEd's important initiative to improve science content on Wikipedia!

More and more students and scientists are recognizing the worthiness of Wikipedia content. As a chemist, I have continually been impressed with the accuracy, quality and range of Wikipedia scientific content, and now use it so much that I have recently made a donation out of appreciation. Every chemistry or physics article I have read so far has been reasonably or very well written and accurate, not only content for which I already have the relevant expertise to pass judgement, but also for content that is new to me which I was later able to verify, for example by reading the primary references listed in the Wikipedia article.

Although Wikipedia does not use the explicit expert peer-review process employed by primary scientific journals, it does have a reasonably effective mechanism to ensure quality and accuracy due to the tireless efforts from the community of many thousands of volunteer editors that not only contribute content but also assess the quality of articles and discuss the best ways to improve them, and assist new editors. In addition, there is the Wiki Education Foundation (https://wikiedu.org/) that supports class assignments and assists instructors and new student editors.

The range of topics covered is impressive, making Wikipedia a preferred resource. While there are other high quality online chemistry information resources, they are either highly specialized or only have a relatively small number of topics/articles, because a small group of chemists at a particular institution can not contribute anywhere near as much content and range of topics as Wikipedia with its many thousands of editors contributing from all over the world. Furthermore, Wikipedia can be relied on to always be there for you, whereas numerous online chemistry information resources that I relied on in the past would at some point disappear off the internet as the staff maintaining the resource either moved on or lost funding that was supporting the resource.

Online video – History of Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_State_of_Wikipedia_by_JESS3.ogv)

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Gain experience with writing a scientific article in the neutral encyclopedic style for a general (worldwide) audience, not just for one instructor who is an expert in the field. Your assignment will not just end up archived on your hard drive where no one will see it, instead it will live on as a valuable contribution to a high quality worldwide online encyclopedia read by millions of people.

• Gain experience with interacting with other editors and experts regarding:

• • reaching a consensus opinion on how to improve the content of an article

• • feedback on how to improve your content

• • justifying your intended contributions with primary source references from peer-reviewed scientific journals

• • objective (and cordial) analysis of existing content from other editors

• Gain an understanding of the fundamentals of contributing to Wikipedia, and how it involves a large community of editors and volunteers working together to ensure high quality articles and a broad range and depth of content. As future chemistry professionals, this experience may entice you to become a Wikipedia volunteer editor and help contribute quality content in the areas of your expertise.

STUDENT "AFFIDAVIDS":

"With a traditional assignment, your only audience is often your professor, or at most your professor and your classmates. I really liked the fact that this assignment gave me an opportunity to write for a broader audience and make a valuable contribution to a resource that I often use myself.” — Joseph Lapka, San Francisco State University

"Writing for Wikipedia has engaged my students like nothing else. They are some of the most pedagogically powerful assignments I’ve incorporated into my classes.” — Adeline Koh, instructor, Stockton University

"Students do use Wikipedia, and they need to understand what it is and how to trace back to the [cited] sources. It is a valuable tool that is dismissed by too many people.” Faculty participant'

INSTRUCTOR "AFFIDAVIDS"

"There are few assignments that incorporate all of MY course goals (teaching critical thinking, practicing research skills, writing intensive work, facilitating collaboration between students, teaching practical skills, and incorporating activism/advocacy work) in a succinct manner. The cherry on top was the degree to which students engaged with the project and created thoughtful and significant edits (which in many cases either significantly improved/changed the Wikipedia pages or created totally new and original content)."

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OVERVIEW OF CHEM 4610 WIKIPEDIA ASSIGNMENT (20% OF TOTAL COURSE MARK)

OUTLINE OF CONTRIBUTIONS AND DUE DATES:

Students must contribute a total of 250 words text contribution and figures (250 “word equivalents”) to any Bioinorganic Wikipedia article(s) they choose (create a new Wikipedia article if one does not already exist for your topic), that consists of:

1. Text Contribution (250 words) of original text content, supported by good quality literature references from reputable peer-reviewed scientific journals; note that the contribution can include editing and revision of existing content in Wikipedia articles and previous contributions from former students (posted to the 4610 Google drive Ass1 folder), but you must first inform your instructor who can then assess the number of “word equivalents”.
   

due date: Fri Oct 7th 2022 (11:59pm): due for marking and revisions

1. Completion of Instructor Revisions to First 250 words (and add to Wikipedia Article) due date: Mon Nov 7th 2022 : due for marking (the revised version will be marked in addition to the original submission mark)
2. Figures (250 “word equivalents”) which can be any combination of instructor approved figures, diagrams, PDB images etc. (see Marking Scheme below for “word equivalents”) due date: Mon Nov 7st 2022: due for marking (revisions should be made before contributing but no marks allotted to making the revisions)

TURNITIN SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS:

Text contributions must be submitted to www.turnitin.com to verify their originality. To submit to Turnitin, log in with your ontariotechu.net (or a personal email account) email address and password and enroll in the "CHEM 4610 F22" class using:

Class ID: see Ass1 file posted to Canvas Class enrollment password: see Ass1 file posted to Canvas

Students are allowed to submit their contributions and view their originality score before the due date and can resubmit (after 24 hrs) which overwrites original submission up until the due date.

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GETTING STARTED

Enroll in the 4610 WikiEd course page. DO NOT use your actual name in your username (for security to avoid being identified). To avoid having the enrollment password publicly available, the link for enrolling on the CHEM 4610 F22 Wikipedia course page is given in the Ass1 file on Canvas

Once enrolled, follow the course page timeline (tab above).

the instructor will be able to see: whether you have completed the training for students your sandbox which articles and talk pages you have contributed to what you have contributed what files you have uploaded (e.g. figures) how many views your work has received **other useful information about your work on Wikipedia.

BEFORE BEGINNING: students must email to obtain approval from the instructor regarding:

1. which subtopic(s) you wish to work on (give relevant Wikipedia articles); in the case two or more students choose the same subtopic, only the first student to contact their instructor will get the approval, the others will have to find another subtopic. marks will be deducted if not done
2. what type of Wikipedia contributions you wish to make, ie. whether to contribute new text content only, or to also edit existing material. marks will be deducted if not done

References

• must be submitted to instructor (best to put in your Google Drive and share with instructor)
• must have the following filename format: “name of metalloenzyme/metalloprotein” “one or two keywords indicating topic of article” “(student last name in brackets)” “abbreviated journal name and year of article”, e.g. “Fe transport DMT1 (H_Smith) BiocCellBio1999” “E_tunneling pathway cytochrome c (H_Gray) JACS1991” (where JACS is a common abbreviation for the Journal of the American Chemical Society)
• marks will be deducted if references are not submitted to your instructor and/or do not have the requested filename format

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LEARNING HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO WIKIPEDIA

The total contribution (combination of original text, figures, editing, supporting references etc) must be entered into the student’s user page sandbox and the username provided for the instructor to verify.

The content should first be created in the user’s sandbox, and not be placed in the live article until after your instructor has reviewed it and made recommendations, and you have completed all revisions required by your instructor.

use the talk page of the article(s) to which you intend to contribute to identify and justify your intended edits to other Wikipedia editors, and (hopefully) reach a consensus of approval for the edits before making them to the live article.

WikiEdu Assistance and Feedback: An on-staff Wikipedia content expert, will follow the work that students do throughout the term and provide feedback as they edit. This editor will be signed up on our course page (Wiki Ed). Also, on your course page, there is a purple "Get Help" button in the upper right corner; students can click on this to access ask.wikiedu.org, the WikiEdu FAQ site, find relevant resources, or reach out to the appropriate member of the Wiki Education team to assist you.

In week 1 and 2 of the assignment, students will learn about and practice the following features of Wikipedia:

• Create account, userpage and sandbox, enroll in course page

• Practice (in sandbox) correct use of Wikipedia editing and formatting features: Must have at least one example of each of the following in your sandbox

• headings, with sublevels
• formatting: bold, subscripts, superscripts,
• links to other Wikipedia articles and external references (ie. outside Wikipedia)
• cited references and a reflist
• an uploaded figure with a caption (make your own PDB image of a metalloprotein)
• make a table
• math formulas
• chemical information box (see the new F16 chemistry editing brochure from Helaine: our handbook devoted specifically to the topic of editing in the field of chemistry on Wikipedia)

• learn about the following types of pages:

• talk pages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Talk_pages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signatures note: most talk pages now have the “article rating” for its quality (project's quality scale) and importance (project's importance scale.), assessed within the scope of WikiProject Chemistry, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of chemistry on Wikipedia (and the WikiProject Biology, an effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to biology on Wikipedia).
• history pages
• watchlist

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MARKING SCHEME

TOTAL MARK: /100

creation of Wikipedia account and user page (submitted to instructor) - [no marks but 5 mark penalty if not done by Timeline deadline]

completion of the online training for students - [no marks but 5 mark penalty if not done by Timeline deadline]

Learn and Practice Wikipedia Features in your Sandbox - [10 marks]

Assessment of Contributions (text, figures, references etc): [70 marks Total] • initial 250 words text contribution [20 marks] • revision of 250 words text contribution [25 marks] • figures/diagrams (250 word equivalents) [25 marks]

Contributing to live article; - [20 marks] • Completion of revisions recommended by instructor before contributing; • use of talk page to identify and justify your intended edits to other Wikipedia editors;

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Marking Guide for text contributions:

• Topic/Subtopics (worth ~ 15% of total marks)

• chosen subtopics are reasonably appropriate, and reasonably important, contributions for the chosen Wikipedia articles
• care has been taken to ensure the content does not discuss or state anything that is already discussed or stated in the Wikipedia article

• Quality and Accuracy of Contribution (worth ~ 70% of total marks)

Sentence Structure and Grammar

• has been PROOFREAD!! Grammar and spelling are acceptable; no incomplete or run-on sentences
• sentence structure is reasonable, understandable and “reads well”, ie. does not leave reader struggling to understand what is being said.

Written to Wikipedia standards and well enough to be worthy of the Wikipedia article:

• follows Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines including the five pillars
• written at an appropriate level of detail, not too general or vague, not to specific and detailed, or too lengthy, on a small subtopic that is not so important to the article
• written in the neutral point of view with concise scientific language, and no subjective opinions or persuasion; does not refer to authors by name in the text (ie. unlike the scientific literature, avoid directly naming authors “Jones et al believe this mechanism to be most likely”, just give a subscript to the reference) except where the author is very well known and of great importance to the topic (e.g. “the theory of relativity was developed by Albert Einstein”)
• uses proper Wikipedia formatting and syntax; has heading(s) to identify subtopic(s) ; links to other Wikipedia articles
• chemistry specific terms, parameters, abbreviations and symbols are defined or explained (except when already defined in the existing Wikipedia article)
• does not have awkward / unclear / vague / disorganized wording that confuses the reader
• the explanations are well organized and include sufficient detail that the reader can understand
• internal Wikipedia links are given

Content is Accurate:

• does not make obviously incorrect statements
• does not mistakenly use the wrong term or name of something

Referencing is Sufficient and Appropriate to support the content (worth ~ 15% of total marks)

• pdf files of references must be submitted to your instructor (best to put them in your Google Drive) note: references must have the filename format: “name of metalloenzyme/metalloprotein” “one or two keywords indicating topic of article” “(student last name in brackets)” “abbreviated journal name and year of article”, e.g. “Fe transport DMT1 (H_Smith) BiocCellBio1999” note: marks will be deducted if references are not submitted to your instructor and/or do not have the above filename format

Marking Guide for contribution of references

• Must give the proper full literature reference, ie. as per usual give the “author, journal title, year, volume(issue), page number”; or for books give the “title, edition, author, publisher, ISBN number”.
• Do not give website references unless they are official well-known verifiable chemistry/science information sources, e.g. the PDB Protein Bank, Brenda Enzyme data base, LibreText (free textbook resource from UC Davis), information provided by a known verifiable university or institution etc. If the website provided a literature article or reference then you must still give the proper full literature citation as per the point above. notes:
• pdf files of references must be submitted to your instructor (best to put them in your Google Drive)
• references must have the filename format: “name of metalloenzyme/metalloprotein” “one or two keywords indicating topic of article” “(student last name in brackets)” “abbreviated journal name and year of article”, for example:
  

“Fe transport DMT1 (H_Smith) BiocCellBio1999” or “E_tunneling pathway cytochrome c (H_Gray) JACS1991” (where JACS is a common abbreviation for the Journal of the American Chemical Society)

• marks will be deducted if references are not submitted to your instructor and/or do not have the above filename format

Marking Guide for contribution of Figures • Figures are “textbook quality”, have sufficient detail, no mistakes, and look professionally drawn; molecular structures do not have distorted “funny-looking” bond lengths or angles (ie. correct VSEPR shapes); items in the figure have appropriate sizing (text is not too small or big, arrows and other graphics are sized appropriately for the figure)

Contributing to live article

• Completion of revisions recommended by instructor before contributing
• use of talk page to identify and justify your intended edits to other Wikipedia editors;

Word Equivalencies for Non-Text Contributions

• adding figures and diagrams the “word equivalency” of each figure, diagram or table will be decided by the instructor based on the complexity and relevance of the figure, diagram or table, students must therefore consult (email) with the instructor to determine the equivalency allowed for a diagram or table.

• editing existing content:

• if more than 50% of a sentence is edited, then count all the words in the sentence
• if less than 50% of sentence is edited, then count only the number of words changed or added
• there must be a valid reason for each edit and it must be explained in the talk page

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FURTHER NOTES

• the marks are also indicated in the timeline for each week.

• deciding on Topics and subtopics does not have marks assigned to it but does have due dates with late penalties Assignment Topics – Guidelines and Instructor Suggestions

Various suitable topics and subtopics identified by your instructor are listed in the "Ass1 Wikipedia Contribution" file posted to Canvas Instructor Advice and Student FAQ

see the Ass1 file posted to Canvas

Student	Assigned	Reviewing
Raysarj
M-Khemist	Metals in medicine, Lobaplatin
Swiftie1999	Formate dehydrogenase
Spicymangoo
8959j	Iron-sulfur protein
Vroomvrooms	Carboxypeptidase
Kthk0708	Multicopper oxidase
BioEditor123	L-ascorbate oxidase
Majiang21	Carbonic anhydrase

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings

Thursday, 8 September 2022

In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment

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:

• Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
• Evaluating Wikipedia

 

During this training, you will learn about:

• Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines including the five pillars  
• "edit source" pages and wikimarkup 
• "edit" pages and the visual editor (relatively new and now the preferred editing method)
• your userpage and sandbox
• talk pages, history pages and watchlists

The training consists of units that students take as they proceed with the different stages of their Wikipedia assignment. Each unit covers important aspects of Wikipedia that will set students up for a successful Wikipedia experience, and the instructor can keep track of each student's progress.  Be sure to check the dashboard regularly for upcoming training modules.
 
Wikipedia's Five Pillars:

• Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia
• Wikipedia has a neutral point of view
• Wikipedia is free content
• Wikipedians should interact in a respectful and civil manner
• Wikipedia does not have firm rules

 

Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia

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.)

 

Week1 Tasks (5% penalty if not done by due date above):

1. Create a Wikipedia account and enroll in the CHEM 4041 assignment page
2. Initialize your userpage and sandbox
3. read through the Editing and Evaluating Wikipedia brochures (links above)
4. do the above Training modules

note: the overall grading scheme is given below the timeline

 

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Resources: ====

1. Create Account and Enrol
Students can both create their Wikipedia account (username and password) and join the CHEM 4610 F19 Wikipedia course page by clicking the enrollment link provided in the Ass1 file posted to Canvas.

(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.)

Once enrolled, the instructor will be able to see:

• whether you have completed the training for students
• your sandbox
• which articles and talk pages you have contributed to
• how much and what you have contributed 
• what files you have uploaded (e.g. figures)
• how many views your work has received
• and other useful information about your work on Wikipedia.

 

Additional Tips and Info

How to make multiple sandboxes (ie. subpages on your user page)

about subpages to create a user subpage, see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages#User_pages_and_user_space user pages
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1.     write in any editable area (e.g. your sandbox), “User:username/subpage_name”, where “username” is your Wikipedia account username and “subpage_name” is whatever name you want for the new subpage, e.g. "User:Kcsunshine999/sandbox2" 

2.     then copy and paste “User:Kcsunshine999/sandbox2” into the Wikipedia search box

3.     then select “Start the User:Kcsunshine999/sandbox2 page.” 

4.     then edit the new subpage to have some text in it. e.g. “Kcsunshine Sandbox2” (can select the Visual Editor from the “pen” icon drop-down at the rightmost end of toolbar at the top), and select “publish changes” to save the edit and initialize the new page   

5.     you can access the new subpage by pasting the link as per point 2 above,

or you can go to the index page for your username: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/User:your_username which lists and links to all the subpages under your username

 

 

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 2

Course meetings

Monday, 12 September 2022   |   Thursday, 15 September 2022

Assignment - Training

Edit and Evaluate Wikipedia (5% penalty if not done)

Week2 Tasks (5% penalty if not done by due date above):

1. do the above Training modules

 

In class - Discussion

More Tips from Wiki Edu:

 

Plagiarism, Copyright and Creative Commons

 

1.     Students sometimes struggle with what constitutes plagiarism on Wikipedia, so be sure to share this post with them that clarifies common points of confusion. 

 

2.     Remember, Wiki Education has a wealth of resources, training modules, and an FAQ site.

 

If anyone has asked about screenshots from the PDB and uploading to the commons they can click "this file is not my own work" and you can click on the "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0" license when asked why we have the right to publish the file. Just thought I'd share this information for everyone's benefit.

Regards,

Chris

 

 

 

Week 3

Course meetings

Monday, 19 September 2022   |   Thursday, 22 September 2022

Assignment - Assignment Tasks - Practice Editing (10% of Total Mark)

Week3 Tasks (Mark = 10%)

Note: Tasks 1.1 - 1.5 are in this Block below; however Tasks 1.6 - 2.0 had to be put in the next Block titled "Assignment Tasks - Practice Editing Continued (included in 10% Mark)" since there is not enough room in one Block for all these instructions

 

Overview of Tasks (follow the detailed Instructions below)

1. Practice the following in your sandbox (mark = 7%)
(see detailed instructions below)

• Editing and formatting etc. with the Visual Editor 
• Practice citing internal and external references and creating a reflist
• Practice uploading figures
• Practice making a table
• Practice entering a formula
• Practice making a chemical information box ("ChemBox")

2. View and learn how to use: talk pages, history pages, watchlists (mark = 3%)
(see detailed instructions below) 

Detailed Instructions and Resources:

Instructions

1. Practice the following editing and formatting features in your sandbox; inform your instructor when the tasks are complete for marking

For the 1.1 - 1.4 tasks below, choose one chemical compound for which there is no Wikipedia article or only a stub article that does not list the chemical and physical properties, choose from one of the these options (best quickest is to just choose one of the Instructor options):

 

• look through the Sigma-Aldrich chemical database (or Fisher or VWR) 
• you may know of a literature article that reports the chemical properties of a compound
• search for the chemical properties using SciFinder (which gives the CAS number) and/or the CAS number; (see course syllabus for instructions how to use Scifinder)
• choose one of the following examples identified by your instructor that do not have a cheminfo box:  
  2. [Co(sepulchrate)]³⁺  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrochelate
  3. Cobalt(II) cyanide ;
  4. vanadyl tartrate, vanadyl citrate (as per Wikipedia vanadate article)
  5. tetrachlorozincate ,
  6. 2-methyl-3-heptanol ,
  7. bee pheromones:
  8. 4-Hydroxy-3-methoxy phenylethanol (HVA) 
  9. methyl oleate
     

• 1. .dibutyltin diacetate used to make FTO glass, does not have a Wikipedia article

Or use your own example but most of the well known common compounds do have Wikipedia articles, so best to check less common examples; be sure to search for them on Wikipedia until you find a compound that has no article or only a stub article that does not give the chemical properties asked for below. 
note that the WikiProject Chemicals links to the project worklist which has a comprehensive list of Wikipedia chemical articles being worked on (and their status).

 

1.1. In your sandbox, use the Visual Editor to make: 

• the Heading: "Week3 Tasks - Info for {name of your compound}"
• the subheading: "Properties of {name of your compound}"
• a bullet list of the following properties:  molecular formula ; molar mass ; m.p. ; b.p. ; solubility in water.  

Note if the compound is a metal salt, e.g. most metal complexes, the m.p. and b.p. will likely be not available since salts usually do not melt or boil and instead just decompose on heating to high temperatures (> 250 dec C)

1.2. repeat the name of your chosen compound in bold and again in italics

1.3. give an internal Wikipedia link to any chemistry article of your choosing

1.4. give an external link to the Sigma-Aldrich catalogue entry for your above chosen compound, or to the literature article or CAS entry etc, whichever is the source you used for the chemical properties. 
For example, the Sigma-Aldrich catalog entry for N,N'-dimethyl-1,3-diaminopropane.

1.5.  Practice making citations
Use Google Scholar to search (Scifinder is not available from the ON Tech Library at this time) for three different chemistry literature articles not listed in the Wikipedia article for any of the topics below.  Give the title of each article and make a citation at the end of each title to the journal article.  If your articles are directly relevant to the content of the article, then they can serve as part of your assignment contribution.

• article(s) on the nitrogenase enzyme that are not listed in the Wikipedia nitrogenase article.  
• article(s) on Photosystem II that are not listed in the Wikipedia Photosystem II article
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make a reflist with the heading "references" below the list of articles (use the visual editor "cite" and "insert/references list" buttons, but note that the wikimarkup syntax is in the wikimarkup quick reference "cheatsheet".  

 

 

Resources:

(Wiki Ed) Ian (Wiki Ed)) (Ian Ramjohn / iramjohnwikiedu.org) Wikipedia Content Expert in the Sciences
 is our content expert from Wiki Ed, he will help students throughout the term.

 

the Basics of how to Contribute to Wikipedia

About Contributing to Wikipedia

About [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines

]
Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is a how-to guide that explains the process of contributing to the English Wikipedia, both for novice users and experienced editors. It was originally written in 2008 by John Broughton, but has since been expanded and updated by many other Wikipedia contributors.

 

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Editing and Markup: =====

About Editing Wikipedia (a downloadable pdf file that is also posted to the BB Ass1 folder)

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet a quick reference on wikimarkup syntax

]

 

NOTE: to see "Edit Source", in the "edit" tab, there is an "edit pen" button on the top right that toggles between the "visual editor" and "edit source" 

====== in some cases, like a chembox, there is no visual editor option so you will likely want to view the edit source syntax of an existing chembox to know what syntax is needed 

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How to make a Table:

====== Advice from Ian (our mentor from Wiki Ed, see above):
if you are using the VisualEditor (which you should be), creating a table is actually as easy as clicking the Insert button and selecting Table.
If you want to learn how to do it "properly", using wikicode, you should check out Help:Table on Wikipedia. It probably tells you more than you want to know about table formatting, but it does give you an awful lot of control over what you want to do. ======

A convenient in-between option is to use a tool that lets you convert Excel into a wikicode table. Here's a good example http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/tab2wiki.php

 

 

How to make a formula:

Advice from Ian (our mentor from Wiki Ed, see above):
When it comes to mathematical notation in Wikipedia, you can find everything you'd ever want to know (and a lot more) at Help:Displaying a formula. A specific extension to the <math> tags that are specifically designed for chemistry were introduced this summer - see Help:Displaying a formula#Chemistry. There are still issues with that extension though, and for that reason some Chemistry editors have mixed feelings about whether to use it or not. I'd say use it if it works, but bear in mind that it will sometimes fail to display anything but an error message. So warn your students to double-check things after they save a page.

VisualEditor also has a decent tool for building formulae. I haven't played with it much, but it seems pretty powerful. You can access it by clicking the More button on the drop-down menu from Insert, as shown in the screen shot. This might be sufficient to your students needs.

 

 

How to Upload images and diagrams:

Introduction to Uploading Images

Uploading Images, includes the "Illustrating Wikipedia" Guide (a downloadable pdf file that is also posted to the BB Ass1 folder)

for further details on chemistry illustrations, see the “Editing Wikipedia articles on Chemistry (Wiki Ed)” handbook, you can download the pdf (it is also posted in the 4610 Ass1 folder and hardcopies are available from your instructor; and it is also posted in the Wikimedia Commons for download), see p. 3 where it says: “If you’d like to create and share images of chemical structures or reaction schemes, check out | shortcut WP:CSDG -  for details on how to upload them (don’t upload freehand drawings).”

Tips for Wikipedia chem-art: no words, uniform font (sans serif), no "a" and "b", the two mechanisms should be separate figures to ensure versatility. Wikipedia would probably only show one mechanism.

 

How to make a ChemBox:

see the “Editing Wikipedia articles on Chemistry (Wiki Ed)” handbook, you can download the pdf (it is also posted in the 4610 Ass1 folder and hardcopies are available from your instructor; and it is also posted in the Wikimedia Commons for download):  p. 3 gives the chembox template and the link to the Template:Chembox,

General info on Infoboxes:  Wikipedia:infoboxes , Wikipedia:List of Infoboxes

 

 

 

 

Assignment - Assignment Tasks - Practice Editing Continued (included in 10% Mark)

 

1.6.  Practice Uploading Figures 

In your sandbox, make a Heading "Practice Uploading a PDB Structure Image"

 

Go to the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and use PDB code: 2DN1 (Xray structure of oxyhemoglobin) to make an image (PNG file) of one of the four active sites in the oxyhemoglobin protein, then upload with a caption to your Wikipedia sandbox, as per the following instructions:

 

• Look at the instructions for using the JSmol viewer in the "Overheads Intro Bioinorganic” Lecture Notes 
• Go to the oxyhemoglobin structure PDB code:  2DN1
• select the JSmol viewer
• select Style = Ligands and Pocket
• select Color = Rainbow
• select Surface = none
• as per the “Overheads Intro Bioinorganic”, rotate the 3D model and size it to get as clear a view as possible of one of the four oxy heme complexes showing the side chains above the coordinated O2 ligand in order to assess if there is steric crowding around the O2 ligand that could prevent the poisonous linear CºO carbon monoxide ligand from binding (a long held view that steric crowding is responsible for blocking CO is now considered incorrect, that the is enough room for the small CO to bind well, the Lectures10 Hemoglobin will discuss the new theory as to how our hemoglobin blocks CO binding)

see instructor’s image of the oxyhemoglobin heme site in PDB 2DN1 ; image Wikimedia Commons link:

OxyHemoglobin active site structure (PDB code 2DN1)

• save the image as PNG file

Follow the Wikipedia training instructions (also the resources below) for uploading an image to the Wikimedia Commons and copying it to a page (your sandbox in this case).  When uploading a PDB image (that you made yourself using the PDB) to the Wikimedia Commons, note that PDB data and images are "Public Domain" and permitted for uploading to Widipedia etc, as long as you cite the PDB code, the original article that published the structure and the viewer software used, as per the PDB policy page.  Although you created the image, it was done using someone else’s published data and the PDB viewer software, so instead of selecting “This file is my own work"

I selected “This file is not my own work” (because, although the PDB is public domain, it does ask that the original article and authors be cited)

• In the “source box” I put:
  I created this image using The Protein Data Bank (https://www.rcsb.org/) which is a Public Domain archive, as per the following PDB Bank Usage Policies (https://www.rcsb.org/pages/usage-policy):

"Images created using PDB data and other software should cite the PDB ID, the corresponding structure publication, and the molecular graphics program."

"The wwPDB policy states that data files contained in the PDB archive are available under the CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication."

• In the Authors box I put the citation asked for in the above PDB Policy:

PDB code 2DN1

1.25 a resolution crystal structures of human haemoglobin in the oxy, deoxy and carbonmonoxy forms.

Park, S.-Y., Yokoyama, T., Shibayama, N., Shiro, Y., Tame, J.R.

(2006) J Mol Biol 360: 690-701

DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.05.036

Image created using JSmol (Javascript)

• In the “Now tell us why you are sure you have the right to publish this work” I selected “Creative Commons CC0 Waiver (release all rights, like public domain: legal code”

 

In your sandbox make a heading: "Critique of Carbonic Anhydrase Mechanism Figure"

·        Go to the Wikipedia “Carbonic anhydrase” article and look at the mechanism figure with caption: “This image shows the cyclic mechanism for carbonic anhydrase.” (uploaded by Bilal.bhatti96; see History page Nov 28 2019 edit if the figure has been removed, as per the instructions below in the History Pages section). 

In your sandbox, identify which of the Marking Guidelines for figures below is not properly done in this image.

Figures Marking Guidelines:

Figures are “textbook quality”, have sufficient detail, no mistakes, and look professionally drawn; molecular structures do not have distorted “funny-looking” bond lengths or angles (ie. correct VSEPR shapes); items in the figure have appropriate sizing (text is not too small or big, arrows and other graphics are sized appropriately for the figure)

 

1.7.  Practice making a table
make a table, with a minimum two columns and three rows, listing any kind of chemical data of your choosing, suggestions are:

• NMR or IR data (check the Aldrich catalog or the SDBS database for NMR spectra)
• search for a compound on the NIST chemistry webBook and list chemical properties and/or spectroscopic data
• the chemical properties for your chosen compound above
•  

1.8. Practice entering a formula
enter any formula or calculation of your choosing that includes:

• at least one term with a fraction (numerator and denominator)
• at least one number with an exponent
• at least one variable with a subscript  

1.9. Practice making a chemical information box ("ChemBox", see resources below)

make a chembox for your chosen chemical compound (above) for which there is no Wikipedia article and fill in what information in the chembox template that you have (name, IUPAC name, formula, molar mass, m.p., b.p. etc)

 

 

2.0.  Practice Using History Pages, Talk pages, Article ratings and Watchlists

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Talk_pages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signatures

 

Do the following Ass1 Task:

Ø  In your sandbox, add the Heading in red above and add what is asked for below

 

Go to the Wikipedia “Iron–sulfur cluster” article and…

Ø  select the History tab at the top of the page

Ø  find the three edits made Dec 4^th/5^th 2018 by Ninja Recs (4610 student) and click “prev” to view the edits made.  Look at the next two edits to the page that were made by username “Smokefoot” Dec 5 2018, in your sandbox explain what was the main purpose of these two edits by Smokefoot, ie. what comments are made by Smokefoot on the History page for these edits and why are the statistics for these edits negative numbers (-3,296), (-1,805), ie. what do the negative signs mean?  In your sandbox, give your opinion (and explanation of your opinion) as to whether or not these two edits were necessary.

Ø  Select the Talk tab at the top of the Wikipedia “Iron–sulfur cluster” article and check if there is any discussion of the above edits by Ninja Recs and Smokefoot, if so read it and copy it into your sandbox to show that you have seen it (identify it first with a small heading: “Wikipedia “Iron–sulfur cluster” article: Talk page discussion of Dec 4^th / 5^th 2018 edits”

 

Go to the Wikipedia “Carbonic anhydrase” article and…

 

Ø  select the History tab at the top of the

Ø  find the Dec 3 2018 edit made by Bilal.bhatti96 and click “prev” to view the edits made.  Look at the next three edits to the page that were made by username “Smokefoot” what was the main purpose of these three edits by Smokefoot and why in the history page summary of these edits the statistics say (-642), (-607), (-140), ie. what do the negative signs mean?    

In the 12:03 Dec 3 2018 first edit by Smokefoot, look at the line 26 second box edit which begins with “The enzyme maintain acid-base balance helps transport carbon dioxide.^[2]”  Scroll down and read the Introduction section of the article (version after the Smokefoot edit) that contains this line edit.  Then at the top of the page, click the “previous” button to see the previous version (the Bilal.Bhatti96 Dec 3 2018 edit) and scroll down to read the Introduction section of that version and compare to Smokefoot's new version.   In your sandbox give your opinion (and explanation of your opinion) as to whether or not this edit makes a good improvement to the Introduction compared to the previous version.

Ø  On the History page, look at the Nov 28 2019 edit made by Bilal.bhatti96 and click “prev” to view the edits made.  Look at the new paragraph added in line 32 that starts “The Bohr Effect is a way to describe hemoglobin’s oxygen binding affinity.”  Scroll down and read the Introduction section of the article (the version after the Bilal.bhatti96 edit) that contains this new paragraph; then at the top of the page, click the “previous” button to see the previous version (the A2-25 edit Nov 15 2019) and scroll down to read the Introduction section of that version and compare to the Bilal.bhatti96 Nov 28 version.  In your sandbox, give your opinion (and explanation of your opinion) as to whether or not this new paragraph in the Bilal.bhatti96 version makes a good improvement to the Introduction compared to the previous version. 

Look at the current version of the carbonic anhydrase article, is the paragraph added by Bilal.bhatti still there?

Ø  Select the “Talk” tab at the top of the Wikipedia “Carbonic anhydrase” article and in your sandbox give your opinion as to whether or not there has been enough useful discussion about what needs to be done to improve the carbonic anhydrase article

 

Article Ratings:  quality scale  and importance scale

Ø  Select the “Talk” tab at the top of the Wikipedia “Carbonic anhydrase” article and copy the article ratings for the “quality scale” and “importance scale” into your sandbox

note: most talk pages now have the “article rating” for its quality (see “Wikipedia:Content assessment”,  “Wikipedia:Assessing articles”, a project's quality scale) and importance (project's importance scale.), assessed within the scope of WikiProject Chemistry, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of chemistry on Wikipedia (and the WikiProject Biology, an effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to biology on Wikipedia).

Watchlists

Ø  The training module probably covers this, just note that your account has a watchlist that alerts you to any new changes to articles on your watchlist, see Help:Watchlist

To add an article to your watchlist, click the blue star at the top of the article page (next to the History tab)

 

 

Assignment - Choose Your Article for First 250 words contribution that is due Oct 7 2022

Week3 Tasks - Start Choosing Topics/Subtopics and Type of Contribution

1. Start Deciding on Topics and Subtopics and what types of contributions you will make for the the 250 word text contribution (due Fri Oct 7th)
2. Begin Searching the Literature and Reading References (see notes in week4)
3. Email your Instructor for approval of your chosen topic(s) and subtopic(s) for the 250 word text contribution; approval must be obtained by Mon Oct 3rd or marks may be deducted.
4. Assign the articles you will edit to your name on dashboard

 

NOTEs re Choosing Topics and Articles:

1.  Look through the "Assignment Topics" section 4 in the Ass1 file on Canvas to aid in your choice of topic(s) and article(s) for your contributions; you do not have to choose one of the topics listed, you can choose any reasonable Bioinorganic topic/article you like, but most students prefer the topics listed in section 4 because they have Instructor guidance and many are course topics.

2.  Many of the topics/articles in section 4 of the Ass1 file (on Canvas) have been done by previous students, but in most cases their contributions required numerous Instructor revisions that were not done, or not done well enough, and much of what was moved to the live article has been removed by Wikipedia editors with reasonable justifications for doing so.  As indicated in the notes for topics listed in section 4 with previous student contributions, the previous student contribution(s) with the Instructor revisions are posted in the Google drive Ass1 folder (student names removed for privacy), and the top of the file has detailed Instructor advice and guidance on what subtopic contributions are needed that topic, for example to properly do the Instructor revisions to the previous students contributions or to re-write the contribution, what changes to the contribution should be made (less detail, more detail, omit certain points, add certain new points etc etc), figures/diagrams that should be made to accompany the text contribution, other subtopics to work on also or instead. 

Discussion

Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Chemistry

Genes and Proteins

Science Communication

Week 4

Course meetings

Monday, 26 September 2022   |   Thursday, 29 September 2022

Assignment - Start Drafting Your First 250 Words Contribution

Week4 Tasks - Start Writing Your First 250 Words Contribution

(no marks alloted this week, but dont fall behind!)

1.  If not already done, Make final Decisions on what exact contributions you will make for your 250 words text contribution, and obtain instructor approval:   (due Fri Oct 7th; 5% penalty per day late to max 20%)  specify (in your sandbox) what subtopics you will contribute, do not just say "hemoglobin", instead say  "how Fe3+ high spin-low spin conversions trigger the conformational switching mechanism of hemoglobin"  or "carbonate binding mechanism of hemoglobin" or "method of isolating hemoglobin"
2. If not already done in week3, you must obtain Instructor Approval for your chosen topic(s) and subtopic(s) (via email) for the 250 word text contribution by Mon Oct 3rd (or marks may be deducted)
3. If not done in week3, assign the articles you will edit to your name on the Wikipedia Assignment course page.
4. specify (in your sandbox) what type(s) of contribution you will make, ie. whether it is to contribute new text content, edit existing content, add citations, or some combination thereof. 
5. place your literature References (pdf files) that you will be using as sources for your contributions in a folder on your Google drive and share with your instructor (or email them if there are only a few); use the filename format in the Marking Scheme (Ass1 WORD file on Canvas) and copied below.
6. Use Google Scholar to search the Literature for Articles that discuss your subtopic(s), especially Review articles.
7.  Start writing your contributions and format them in your Sandbox, and clearly label that it is your 250 words text contribution and topic(s) / subtopic(s); Sakura1997 is a good example of a properly organized sandbox.
8. View the talk pages of the articles you intend to contribute to and inform other editors what contributions you wish to make in the near future, invite constructive comments and suggestions to improve your contributions.  This is an important part of the process as it avoids unnecessarily taking editors by surprise.
9. Start thinking about what figures would be good to contribute.

 

Detailed Instructions

• Choose one or more topics/subtopics of interest to you and assess the Wikipedia articles.      Various suitable topics and subtopics identified by your instructor are listed in the "Ass1 Wikipedia Contribution" file posted to Canvas

• Perform a literature search for the most relevant literature articles from reputable peer-reviewed scientific journals on the topic; focus on finding the most recent review articles which give an overview of the topic and are usually written at a level appropriate for Wikipedia; also the introductions of research articles often give a good overview.  Look up the most relevant references from the most recent articles to get a more complete view of the topic. In addition to search engines such as Google Scholar you can use our UOIT licensed SciFinder Scholar (instructions in the Course Syllabus on BB).  Check the course textbook (BGSV-06) for literature references (if the topic is discussed in the course textbook).

References

·        must be submitted to instructor (best to put in your Google Drive and share with instructor)

·        must have the filename format:

“name of metalloenzyme/metalloprotein” “one or two keywords indicating topic of article” “(student last name in brackets)” “abbreviated journal name and year of article”,

e.g.  “Fe transport DMT1 (H_Smith) BiocCellBio1999”

·        marks will be deducted if references are not submitted to your instructor and/or do not have the requested filename format

 

• Be sure to look for the most recent articles also, to be sure the content of earlier articles is still considered accurate and relevant. Many bioinorganic topics involve very active areas of research where fundamental aspects such as the structure or mechanism are still not known or proven, such that new experiments and insights are being reported every year. For example, the exact structure of the CaMn4O5 cluster in photosystem II has only been determined as of 2011 (well after the current edition of the textbook BGSV-06) and the mechanism is not "settled" with several different proposed mechanisms in the recent literature, likewise the structure of the FeMoco (MoFe7S9C) cofactor in nitrogenase was not fully resolved until 2011 and currently the mechanism is still not known, even the initial binding site of the N2 substrate is not known

• decide on what subtopics you will contribute, ie. for example do not just decide to work on "hemoglobin", instead identify very specific subtopics that are missing or incomplete within the Wikipedia hemoglobin article such as "how Fe3+ high spin-low spin conversions trigger the conformational switching mechanism of hemoglobin" or "carbonate binding mechanism of hemoglobin" or "current methods of isolating hemoglobin"

• decide what type(s) of contribution you will make, ie. whether it is to contribute new content, add citations, add media (figures and diagrams), edit existing material, evaluate article quality, or some combination thereof.

 

How to Search the Literature

 

For Wikipedia contributions, you should be primarily using textbooks and Review articles from the literature, because they are usually written at the level of detail appropriate for Wikipedia articles.  Therefore, take care to look Review articles and the review articles will have lots of references that you can look to for more detail.  That being said, some research articles do have good discussions at a level appropriate for Wikipedia, so do not be dimissive of a research article if it looks like it has good discussion of the topic/subtopic you want, just that usually the best strategy is to look at the review articles first to get a good overview of the topic.

 

Downloading Articles

On the Ontario Tech Library website, select the "Journal Titles" tab/portal which allows access to online articles from a large number of chemistry journals for which Ontario Tech has a subscription.

If Ontario Tech does not have a subscription to the journal such that the journal website will not allow you to download the article, you can order the article using "RACER":

- go to the Ontario Tech Library front page, from the "services" drop-down list in the top right, select "Interlibrary Loan - (IIL) RACER"

- must create a RACER account, from the "how to use RACER" drop-down list, select "creating an account (first time users must register)"

- select "log in to RACER if you have already registered"

- on the left side of the page, select "blank request form"

- fill our the form (select "Ontario Tech email delivery), and submit

- you will be emailed a .pdf of the scanned article, usually takes 2 days - 1 week

 

 

Searching the Chemistry/Science Journals:

 

NOTE: often a reference will only give the abbreviation of the journal title, so to find the full title, the UBC library kindly provides a search feature:

Chemistry/Science Journal Abbreviations, a Comprehensive list from UBC

https://woodward.library.ubc.ca/research-help/journal-abbreviations/

 

Google Scholar

is an excellent search engine for Science/Chemistry articles; you can enter keywords for your topic and subtopics and sort by relevance or by date; however it does not allow any futher refining, for example to filter the search results for review articles only.

 

SciFinder Scholar

The Ontario Tech Library website provides a sophisticated (and expensive!) literature searching software called "SciFinder Scholar" which searches ALL the Chemistry/Biology/Biochemistry and other Science Literature (and even conference presentations and patents), much more convenient than searching the individual (e.g. ACS, RSC etc) journal websites.  

SciFinder Scholar access (2018):

to register (username and password) or to login, go to http://guides.library.uoit.ca/chemistry which has a box on the left side with the link "go to registration page" if you are a new user. 

Alternatively, use Access SciFinder Scholar starting on the Ontario Tech Library website front page, select "databases by subject" then "chemistry" then "SciFinder (CAS)" and login to use SciFinder Scholar.

NOTE: you must be on campus to use SciFinder Scholar but it is easy to save search results when on campus so you can then look up articles of interest off campus using the Library Portal.

 

 

 

 

Article Finder Tool

 

Finding articles for your students to work on can often be one of the trickiest parts of the Wikipedia assignment. To help them in this process, we just launched a new article finder tool on the Dashboard. The new article finder can be found under the articles tab of your course page.

After typing in keywords, students can sort the results by quality, completeness, or daily page views so they can more easily find the articles where they can have the most impact. You can read more about the new article finder tool here.

In conjunction with our finding articles training module, students can learn to identify those articles that are both relevant to their coursework and in need of improvement.

 

How to find Stub articles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Stub_types#Physical_sciences

 

 

FYI: the Wikiproject_chemistry classifies chemistry articles and identifies what changes are needed, however it does not have anything on bioinorganic articles so not very useful to the 4610 assignment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chemistry

click on “open tasks” and/or “things you can do” for a listing of chemistry articles that need editing

 

 

Week 5

Course meetings

Monday, 3 October 2022   |   Thursday, 6 October 2022

Assignment - Finish and Submit your First 250 Words Contribution (25% of Total Mark)

Week 5 Tasks

1. Peer Review (optional, due Wed Oct 5th 2022)

Be sure your contribution is started and well identified in your sandbox so it can be peer reviewed by another student

Peer Review the Sandbox Contribution from another student as per below. 

 

2. Submit your 250 Word Text Contribution (due Fri Oct 7th 2022)

1.  In your sandbox, clearly identify your 250 words text contributions and inform (email) your instructor it is ready for marking and revisions (5% penalty per day late to max 20%)

2. Copy your contribution into a WORD file and submit to Turnitin as per the instructions in section 1 of the "Ass1 Wikipedia Contribution" file on Canvas

Topic organization:  If contributing to more than one section in a Wikipedia article, in your sandbox and WORD file submitted to Turnitin for marking/revisions, you MUST organize it to have the separate sections with the section heading from the article (or your proposed section heading if it is to be a new section in the article) and ensure each sentence/paragraph is in the section it will be contributed to in the live article, so that your instructor will know where you intend to put each sentence/paragraph and avoids making it look like you intend to contribute two sentences of unrelated topics together into the same section when they do not both belong in that section.

3. Share your References (pdf files) with your instructor as per the Week4 instructions above.

4. Be sure you have included internal links to relevant Wikipedia articles, students often forget to do it.

5. Check the talk pages for editor comments on the contributions you wish to make; if there are any editor suggestions you agree will improve the contributions, then revise accordingly; likewise with the student peer review

 

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

Milestones

250 words Text Contribution is Completed and Submitted

Week 6

Course meetings

Monday, 10 October 2022   |   Thursday, 13 October 2022

In class - Reading Week

No work required but you could work on the figures, at least decide what you would like to do and obtain instructor approval

Week 7

Course meetings

Monday, 17 October 2022   |   Thursday, 20 October 2022

Assignment - Figures Contribution (250 word equivalents)

Week7 Tasks

Figures Contribution

1.  Make final Decisions on what exact figures you will make and what article and section to which they will be contributed

2.  Email your instructor to obtain approval for your figures contribution and whether they qualify as enough for "250 word equivalence" by Mon Oct 31st (marks will be deducted if approval is not obtained and figures are not adequate or not enough)

3. Start drawing your figure contributions and format them in your Sandbox, and clearly label what article and section each figure will be contributed to.

 

 

Assignment - Peer Review an Article (Optional; no marks allottedl)

Guiding framework

Week 8

Course meetings

Monday, 24 October 2022   |   Thursday, 27 October 2022

Assignment - Respond to your peer review (optional)

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:

• Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
• Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Milestones

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Week 9

Course meetings

Monday, 31 October 2022   |   Thursday, 3 November 2022

Assignment - Revisons to First 250 Words (25% of Total Mark)

Week 9 Tasks

Revisions to 250 words Text Contribution

1.  Complete Instructor Revisions on the 250 words contribution in your sandbox due Mon Nov 14th 2022 (11:59pm); Submit your revised draft (and figures) in a WORD file to Turnitin for marking.

 

Figures Contribution

1. Complete your Figures contribution due Mon Nov 14th (5% penalty per day late to max 5 days).  Make your figures (250 word equivalents) in your sandbox and clearly identify your them including what article and section they will be contributed to, and copy the figures to the WORD file with the revised 250 words contribution that is submitted to Turnitin.

 

Moving Contribution to Live Article

1. View the talk pages of the articles you intend to contribute to and inform other editors what contributions you wish to make in the near future, invite constructive comments and suggestions to improve your contributions.  This is an important part of the process as it avoids unnecessarily taking editors by surprise and gives time to reach an agreement before drafting and contributing.

 

 

 

Week 10

Course meetings

Monday, 7 November 2022   |   Thursday, 10 November 2022

Week 11

Course meetings

Monday, 14 November 2022   |   Thursday, 17 November 2022

Assignment - Final article

It's the final week to develop your article.

• Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
• Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Week 12

Course meetings

Monday, 21 November 2022   |   Thursday, 24 November 2022

Assignment - Move your Text and Figures Contributions to Wikipedia (20% of Total Mark)

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."

1. check the talk pages again for editor comments on the contributions you wish to make; if there are any editor suggestions you agree will improve the contributions, then revise accordingly; likewise with the student peer review
2. Copy your contributions to the live Wikipedia article(s) (the "mainspace") and inform your instructor when this is done; due date Nov 28th 2022
   

 

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.

Week 13

Course meetings

Monday, 28 November 2022   |   Thursday, 1 December 2022

Assignment - Reflective essay (Optional; no marks allotted)