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- Course name
- IB35AC Wikipedia Project- Section 113
- Institution
- UC Berkeley
- Instructor
- Leslea Hlusko
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Human Biological Variation
- Course dates
- 2016-08-25 00:00:00 UTC – 2016-12-05 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 25
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 19 October 2016
- In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia project
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
- Assignment - Homework for Next Week
- Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.
- Complete the training below and review Evaluating Wikipedia
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 26 October 2016
- In class - In Section
- Project Introduction and Article Selection
Students are introduced to the project and to the article options (provided by GSI). The article will be chosen by the students.
- Assignment - Homework for Next Week
- Complete the three trainings below
- Print out the article and critique on it with hand-written notes on the page. Students should give some thought as to which part of the article they are interested in improving.
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 2 November 2016
- In class - In Section
- Critique Article and Make Teams
- Discuss the culture of Wikipedia, citations, plagiarism.
- During section, students will thoroughly critique the article together with the GSI and outline a plan for fixing it.
- Students are assigned specific tasks (i.e., teams).
- Assignment - Homework for Next Week
- Students start editing the article in teams.
- Complete the two trainings
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 9 November 2016
- In class - In Section (and Lecture)
- Team Meetings
- In section: This week focuses on project team meetings. Discussion sections meet so that teams can update each other on what they are doing in order to stay coordinated.
- During lectures: Lecture time has been set aside for team meetings.
(This is the intense week for the project. Teams are to finalize their community agreements with their GSI, coordinate with their teammates, and finish their article edits.)
- Assignment - Homework for Next Week
- Finish article edits
- Pull together Project Report
- Write Reflective Essay
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 16 November 2016
- In class - In Section
- Reflect
Project reports, including reflective essay, is to be handed in at the start of section. These will be discussed during section. Survey of project’s effectiveness will be done at the end of section.