Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Riverside City College/Honors World Religions (Fall 2022)
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- Course name
- Honors World Religions
- Institution
- Riverside City College
- Instructor
- Kirsten Gerdes
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Religion and Humanities
- Course dates
- 2022-08-22 00:00:00 UTC – 2022-12-09 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 20
This is an honors section of an introductory religion/humanities course that covers the major world religions. It includes readings from both primary and secondary sources, research, and writing, all geared toward student understand of diverse worldviews and cultures. This project is designed to help get them more in-depth about specific practices and beliefs from within one religious tradition.
Timeline
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 6 September 2022 | 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
- 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.)
- Milestones
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
- In class - Discussion
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 15 September 2022
- In class - Discussion
- Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 20 September 2022 | Thursday, 22 September 2022
- Assignment - Preparing to Find an Article to Evaluate and Edit
- Assignment - Choosing an Article & Beginning Research
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 27 September 2022 | Thursday, 29 September 2022
- Assignment - Continue building bibliography & Start drafting in sandbox
You should have already completed the Sandboxes, talk pages, and watchlists training a few weeks ago, but you can refresh your memory about the purpose of these pages as you move into completing a draft of your article/section edit.
Be sure your bibliography has at least 2-3 sources that pertain to the section/article you are editing and that you are working to summarize these sources in your article drafts in your sandbox.
- Assignment - Small edit
- add a citation to an article
Note that your "small edit" doesn't need to be on your chosen article, though it can be if you choose. This is intended merely to have you practice the technical aspects of editing Wikipedia, so you can choose to edit something as minor as fixing a typo or rewording one sentence that might be awkwardly written. This should not require you to research sources to add to an article.
- Discussion
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 4 October 2022 | Thursday, 6 October 2022
- Milestones
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts in your sandbox. (Note that you should not be adding anything to the live Wiki article yet.)
- Assignment - Training for Peer review of two classmates' articles
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 11 October 2022 | Thursday, 13 October 2022
- Assignment - Rough draft of your contributions completed
By the beginning of this week, your article draft in your sandbox should be complete. 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
Everyone should be working on peer reviewing two classmates' article drafts.
- Assignment - Continue improving your article
Exercise
Over the course of this week, you'll revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite any parts that need to be better paraphrased in your own words; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 18 October 2022 | Thursday, 20 October 2022
- Milestones
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
- Assignment - Respond to your 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:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
- Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
- Assignment - Polish your work
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!
- Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia
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
- 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!
- Milestones
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.