Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Clark Street Community School/Wikipedia (2014 Fall)/Timeline

Wikipedia log (When? What were you looking for? Did you find it? Did you find something else interesting? What questions did you have?)
Final portfolio: writing (edits to articles, formal review, new articles), analysis (PR, fixing sources)

Timeline

What is an encyclopedia?

Reading: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not

Chromebooks, mindmap, expectations, what is an encyclopedia (authority and expertise, distance from source, scope, who writes, who revises, who pays, who uses), five pillars

Verifiability and reliable sources

Haymarket article, plagiarism and Grimes ("In the News"), Grimes article (before) (after), introduction to verifiability, reliable sources (difference between primary/secondary/tertiary, when each is most appropriate, source affiliation with subject matter, reliability via fact-checking and editorial control), discuss final portfolio, article annotation assignment (by hand)

Five pillars review, WP shortcuts and being able to reference policy, markers of article quality (article structure), usernames & Internet safety & acceptable use, sandbox and reputation, vandalism?, permanence, tutorial (online student orientation, WP Adventure, wikicode). If you missed class, read File:Editing Wikipedia brochure EN.pdf.

Review personal Wikipedia logs, talk pages, make userpage, sign course page, AGF/BITE/civility, ping, reputation and association with course, adding a source and/or information to a WP article, likely a news topic on the periphery (idea: use an article from The New York Times or The Verge)

Deletion and notability

Adding sources/info to articles (cont'd), deletion and notability (list), citations and referencing, reliable sources, plagiarism/paraphrase and "original research", how to get help

Making an article together (sourcing, notability, appropriate headings, comparable articles, proper referencing)

WikiProjects, editor interaction (review talk pages), editor noticeboards, arbitration, admins
Maintenance tasks
Participation in deletion discussions (Ice Bucket list), deletion rationale

Article cleanup

Free use media/fair use rationale, finding free use images, finding sources, article class and criteria

Edit-a-thon, individual projects, translation

Quality and peer review

Local library visit/field trip to university library and historical society

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Discussion topics: sharing back, systemic bias (who edits Wikipedia), WP:Signpost (add examples here), Wikipedia:Centralized discussion