Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Wisconsin-Madison/Modern Jewish History (Fall 2016-2017)

This course surveys the history of the Jewish people from the aftermath of the mass conversion and expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 to the present. Our goal will be to explain the causes of major changes in Jewish societies over the early and late modern periods. We will seek to understand the vicissitudes of the lives of Jewish individuals and of the Jews as a religious, ethnic, and national group as they encountered both unprecedented opportunity and catastrophe in this tumultuous era.

The course can be summarized in one question: How did this small, often-marginalized minority group weather the storms of modernity living amidst societies once dominated by Christianity or Islam?

Topics include religious revival, Reform, Enlightenment, integration and discrimination, political antisemitism, Zionism, the Holocaust, and the State of Israel.

For the Wikipedia Entry Project of this course, Wikipedia Entry students will write a brand-new Wikipedia entry on a topic related to our course or revise an existing entry. The project is cumulative and requires working through several intermediate stages.

SKILLS: communicating historical research to the public; writing from Wikipedia’s neutral point of view; evaluating secondary sources; building expertise.

Student	Assigned	Reviewing
Hmichaels2	Sephardic Jews in the Netherlands
Benrod44	Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany
Daniel zvi	Sabbateans, Gershom Scholem
Max.morris97	Presence of Jewish Nationalism in Antiquity
Aserota1	Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944–46
Aberkey	Jewish ghettos in Europe
Srutstein	Jewish Athletics in the 20th century
Xinyu Ye	Revival of the Hebrew language
Stikalsky	Shtadlan
Ehermsen2	Stereotypes of Jews
Egarfinkel2	Gender separation in Judaism
Bethyuds	Yishuv
Mbibicoff	Jewish assimilation
Ally kaplan	Emanuel Ringelblum
Izzygoldd	History of the Jews in Metro Detroit
Dmaltby	The Role of Women in Early Modern Jewish History
Jessemoskowitz	Stereotypes of Jews
Madeleine.davis098	Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany
Ssturton	War crimes of the Wehrmacht
Hrnlifson	Sarah Schenirer
Carolinerose	Portuguese Synagogue (Amsterdam)
Sfeldman5	History of the Jews in Germany
Nicolekosh	History of the Jews in the Soviet Union
Ashishvk	Role of Conversos
Ting Zhang	Jewish education

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings

Tuesday, 6 September 2016 | Thursday, 8 September 2016

Assignment - Enrollment and Training

Enroll in Modern Jewish History’s Wikipedia Course Page
Complete the training modules below.

Graded Pass/Fail (1%)

Week 2

Course meetings

Tuesday, 13 September 2016 | Thursday, 15 September 2016

Week 3

Course meetings

Tuesday, 20 September 2016 | Thursday, 22 September 2016

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 4

Course meetings

Tuesday, 27 September 2016 | Thursday, 29 September 2016

Assignment - Select a Wikipedia Entry to Create or Revise

Select a Wikipedia entry that you will either create from scratch or significantly improve. My advice: choose an entry related to the book you have selected for the paper assignment. For some possible options, see the Articles tab on our Course Page. You can also browse through the list of Jewish History Wikipedia stubs.

Read pp. 4-6 of “Editing Wikipedia” and use the guidelines there to write a brief explanation of how and why you will improve an existing article or write a new one. List 3-5 sources that you will use. Post this explanation and your topic idea on your Wikipedia user page. If you are improving an existing entry, include a link to it.

Your user page can be accessed by going to the Wikipedia main page, logging in, and clicking on your user name which should appear in the top right corner of the page (next to "Talk Sandbox Preferences [etc.]." The link to it has the format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:[INSERT USER ID HERE].

Graded Pass/Fail. (4%)
Due: Tuesday, 10/11 at 9 PM.

Week 5

Course meetings

Thursday, 6 October 2016

Week 6

Course meetings

Tuesday, 11 October 2016 | Thursday, 13 October 2016

Week 7

Course meetings

Thursday, 20 October 2016

Assignment - Outline your Wikipedia Entry

Once you've been given approval for your topic, go to the Students tab and assign your chosen topic to yourself

Take the two training modules "Sandboxes and Mainspace" and "Sources and Citations." Then go to the appropriate section below, depending on whether you are creating a new article from scratch or improving an existing one.

Creating a new article?

Write an outline of that topic in the form of a standard Wikipedia article's "lead section." Write it in your sandbox.
- A "lead" section is not a traditional introduction. It should summarize, very briefly, what the rest of the article will say in detail. The first paragraph should include important, broad facts about the subject. A good example is Ada Lovelace. See Editing Wikipedia page 9 for more ideas.

Improving an existing article?

Go to its talk page to see what issues have previously been discussed
Identify what's missing from the current form of the article. Make an outline containing notes for improvement in your sandbox.

Sources
Your outline should refer to the sources that you will draw on for specific sections, sub-sections, and points.

Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 8

Course meetings

Thursday, 27 October 2016

Assignment - Expand your draft

Keep working on transforming your article into a complete first draft.
Get draft ready for peer-review [optional - see Peer Review module if interested]
If you'd like a Content Expert to review your draft, now is the time! Click the "Get Help" button in your sandbox to request notes.

Week 9

Course meetings

Tuesday, 1 November 2016 | Thursday, 3 November 2016

Week 10

Course meetings

Tuesday, 8 November 2016 | Thursday, 10 November 2016

Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."

Editing an existing article?

NEVER copy and paste your draft of an article over the entire article. Instead, edit small sections at a time.
Copy your edits into the article. Make many small edits, saving each time, and leaving an edit summary. Never replace more than one to two sentences without saving!

Creating a new article?

Read Editing Wikipedia page 13, and follow those steps to move your article from your Sandbox to Mainspace.
You can also review the [[../../../training/students/sandboxes|Sandboxes and Mainspace]] online training.

Week 11

Course meetings

Tuesday, 15 November 2016 | Thursday, 17 November 2016

Assignment - Continue improving your article

Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.

Read Editing Wikipedia page 12 to see how to create links from your article to others, and from other articles to your own. Try to link to 3–5 articles, and link to your article from 2–3 other articles.

Week 12

Course meetings

Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Week 13

Course meetings

Tuesday, 29 November 2016 | Thursday, 1 December 2016

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 Content Expert at any time if you need further help!

Week 14

Course meetings

Tuesday, 6 December 2016 | Thursday, 8 December 2016

Milestones

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

Assignment - Post final 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 Content Expert at any time

Review training modules if you need to.

Week 15

Course meetings

Tuesday, 13 December 2016 | Thursday, 15 December 2016