Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Maryland/Iranian Cinema (Fall 2019)

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Course name: Iranian Cinema

Institution: University of Maryland

Instructor: Matthew Miller

Wikipedia Expert: Shalor (Wiki Ed)

Subject: Iranian Cinema

Course dates: 2019-08-26 00:00:00 UTC – 2019-12-09 23:59:59 UTC

Approximate number of student editors: 30

This course will be an introduction to Iranian Cinema after the Islamic Revolution. We will cover a selection of the most important Persian-language Iranian films from this period. Students will be required to improve (or create, if necessary) relevant wikipedia entries for each film. This will occur in a two-step process. First, students will be assigned groups for each film and each group will be assigned a specific reading on the film and they will be responsible for adding relevant details from this article to the wikipedia page. In the second phase (and as a part of their final project), each student will select a specific film and they will be responsible for stylistically editing and providing a more coherent flow to one of the wikipedia articles that the students collectively worked on in the first stage.

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings

Monday, 26 August 2019 | Wednesday, 28 August 2019

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.

Week 2

Course meetings

Wednesday, 4 September 2019

In class - What's a content gap?

Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia & Editing Basics

Week 3

Course meetings

Monday, 9 September 2019 | Wednesday, 11 September 2019

Assignment - Editing Basics (Cont.), Plagiarism, & Citations

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

In class - Wikipedia

Assignment - Guide for writing articles on films

Films

Week 4

Course meetings

Monday, 16 September 2019 | Wednesday, 18 September 2019

Assignment - Wikipedia Editing: Films #1-2

Contribute to selected wikipedia articles from information provided in the supplementary readings assigned to you for the first two films.

Assignment - Wikipedia Editing Advanced

Week 5

Course meetings

Monday, 23 September 2019 | Wednesday, 25 September 2019

In class - How to improve articles

Assignment - Wikipedia Editing: Film #3

Contribute to selected wikipedia articles from information provided in the supplementary readings assigned to you for film #3.

Week 6

Course meetings

Monday, 30 September 2019 | Wednesday, 2 October 2019

Assignment - Peer review one article

Guiding framework

Milestones

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

Week 7

Course meetings

Monday, 7 October 2019 | Wednesday, 9 October 2019

Assignment - Wikipedia Editing: Film #4

Contribute to selected wikipedia articles from information provided in the supplementary readings assigned to you for films #4.

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 8

Course meetings

Monday, 14 October 2019 | Wednesday, 16 October 2019

Assignment - Wikipedia Editing: Films #5

Contribute to selected wikipedia articles from information provided in the supplementary readings assigned to you for film #5.

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 - Exercise

Nominating your article for Did You Know

Week 9

Course meetings

Monday, 21 October 2019 | Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Assignment - Wikipedia Editing: Film #6

Contribute to selected wikipedia articles from information provided in the supplementary readings assigned to you for film #6.

Week 10

Course meetings

Monday, 28 October 2019 | Wednesday, 30 October 2019

Assignment - Wikipedia Editing: Film #7

Contribute to selected wikipedia articles from information provided in the supplementary readings assigned to you for film #7.

Week 11

Course meetings

Monday, 4 November 2019 | Wednesday, 6 November 2019

Assignment - Wikipedia Editing: Film #8

Contribute to selected wikipedia articles from information provided in the supplementary readings assigned to you for film #8.

Week 12

Course meetings

Monday, 11 November 2019 | Wednesday, 13 November 2019

Assignment - Wikipedia Editing: Film #9

Contribute to selected wikipedia articles from information provided in the supplementary readings assigned to you for film #9.

Week 13

Course meetings

Monday, 18 November 2019 | Wednesday, 20 November 2019

In class - Film analysis workshop

Week 14

Course meetings

Monday, 25 November 2019

In class - Film analysis workshop

Week 15

Course meetings

Monday, 2 December 2019 | Wednesday, 4 December 2019

Assignment - Rough draft final Wikipedia article rewrite and film analysis due

Submit a rough draft of your final Wikipedia article rewrite and film analysis

In class - Final presentations

Week 16

Course meetings

Monday, 9 December 2019

In class - Final presentations (cont.)