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Course name
Advanced Legal Research
Institution
Stanford Law School
Instructor
Kevin Rothenberg
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Course dates
2020-04-03 00:00:00 UTC – 2020-06-10 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
20


Students will create an original article, or edit an existing one, on a particular legal topic.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Shannoh Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act
Jmdoho Genetic privacy
Sp20-LAW-7809-01-01 Ineffective assistance of counsel
Elisawulfsberg COVID-19 testing
Kegiordano Law review
ESSStanford Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela
CHayes5 Farmer v. Brennan
Christiecorn Ministerial exception
Elizhann Florida Rules of Civil Procedure
Cds2021 No-impeachment rule
Andrewlonghi John Norton Pomeroy
Jwh1292 United States v. Sharpe
KQM2020ALR Jesner v. Arab Bank, PLC
Tomanmil Conflict of interest
N30300 Pennsylvania v. Muniz
Rwsetrak Roberts v. United States Jaycees
SarahH24 Cake copyright
Aalubash Supplemental Security Income
Cbello94 Arce v. García, 434 F.3d 1254 (2006)
Olivmalone
Basshj Davis et al. v. The St. Louis Housing Authority
Neildamron
Emilypostman
Breebella First Step Act
Dbortner ADAPT Act

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings
Friday, 3 April 2020
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. Please ignore the dates under the section headings.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page. They're a good person to contact with questions about editing Wikipedia, or about this Wiki Edu website; for questions about the assignment, please contact your instructors.

We expect you to complete the trainings and exercises in this section by Monday, April 27. We'd also like you to have finalized a topic by that date. We strongly recommend that you check in with us about your topic ideas before the due date; the "Topic Selection" section below, as well as the Canvas module for this assignment, contains some tips and resources for choosing a topic. 

Resources:


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.)


Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia
Assignment - Add to an article
Assignment - Drafting your own contributions

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

Week 2

Course meetings
Friday, 10 April 2020
Assignment - Choose your topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

What makes a good topic for this course? In addition to the tips in the modules above, we suggest selecting a topic that...

  • Involves several of the sources and skills we've introduced in class; e.g., an article about a statute that includes some of its legislative history and/or implementing regulations, or a biographical article about a judge that includes some of their major decisions. 
  • Is primarily or exclusively about US law. We won't cover foreign and international legal research in this course. 
  • Isn't too large or too small. This is hard to judge, and we'll let you know if we think there's a potential issue with your topic, but keep point #1 above in mind and think realistically about the timeframe. 

Suggested resources for finding topics:


Assignment - Exercise

Week 3

Course meetings
Friday, 17 April 2020
Assignment - Peer review an article

Guiding framework

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.

Week 4

Course meetings
Friday, 24 April 2020
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 - Continue improving your article

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.


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.
  • To submit your article, upload your research log to the assignment in Canvas. Don't worry if another Wikipedia user has made (or will make) edits to your article; we'll only be grading based on your own work, whether it "sticks" in the article or not.