Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Appalachian State University/The History of Coal (Spring 2018)
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- Course name
- The History of Coal
- Institution
- Appalachian State University
- Instructor
- Sarah Carmichael
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Interdisciplinary, Appalachian Studies, Environmental Science
- Course dates
- 2018-01-16 00:00:00 UTC – 2018-05-02 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 40
Students will be adding content related to the following: the labor history of the Appalachian coalfields, environmental problems in the Appalachian coalfields related to mining, major mining accidents in the Appalachian coalfields, economic diversification of the Appalachian coalfields, fracking and pipelines in the Appalachian gas basins, the geologic history of the Appalachians as it pertains to fossil fuel development, coal fired power plant technologies, US legislation and policy surrounding coal/natural gas development, etc.
Timeline
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 23 January 2018 | Thursday, 25 January 2018
- 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.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
- Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
- Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia
- training modules and account creation (20 points)
- Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (To avoid hitting Wikipedia's account creation limits, this is best done outside of class. Only 6 new accounts may be created per day from the same IP address.) - 10 points
- It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take (5 points for on-time completion of each training module). New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 30 January 2018 | Thursday, 1 February 2018
- Assignment - Training Module
- Evaluating Articles and Sources (5 points)
Please complete the training module below before attempting to analyze a Wikipedia article of your choice.
- Assignment - Evaluating Wikipedia I
- article of your choice (25 points)
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article related to the course and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
- Complete the "Evaluating Articles and Sources" training (linked below).
- Choose an article on Wikipedia where you are very familiar with the topic. You should choose something that you're interested in and have opinions about, but make sure that you choose something specific ("Appalachian State University Marching Mountaineers") vs. general ("Marching band") so you don't get overwhelmed. Make sure that you are familiar enough with the topic to be able to answer the questions in #3, below.
- Go to the ASULearn assignment titled "Article evaluation" where you'll answer the following questions:
- Provide a link to the Wikipedia article
- Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
- Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
- Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
- Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
- Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
- Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
- Check out the Talk page of the article (see PPT on ASULearn if you can't remember how to get there). What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? Did anything on the talk page surprise you?
- Is the article part of any projects (see the Talk page) - if so, which ones? If so, how is it rated (low/high importance, etc.?)
- How is the article rated? Does it have any flags on the main page (i.e. The neutrality of this article is disputed)? Is it marked as a stub (see bottom of page to see if it has been marked a stub) or is a full article?
- How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way you'd talk about it?
4. Choose one question that you answered above in #3 and leave your evaluation on the article's Talk page (i.e. provide additional links, note bias, or updated material). Be sure to sign your feedback with four tildes — Carmichaelsk (talk) 01:16, 8 April 2018 (UTC).
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 6 February 2018 | Thursday, 8 February 2018
- Assignment - Discussion
- Thinking about sources and plagiarism (15 points)
Go to the ASULearn assignment called "Sources and Plagiarism" where you'll answer the following questions (we discussed these in class earlier, but it would be useful for you to write about it individually as well):
- Blog posts and press releases are considered poor sources of reliable information. Why?
- What are some reasons you might not want to use a company's website as the main source of information about that company?
- What is the difference between a copyright violation and plagiarism?
- What are some good techniques to avoid close paraphrasing and plagiarism?
- Assignment - Training modules
- Sources/Citations and Plagiarism (10 points)
1. Complete the Sources and Citations and Plagiarism Training Modules (5 points each)
- Assignment - Evaluating Wikipedia II
- Adding Citations (10 points)
2. Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to the article you wrote about last week. There are two ways you can do this:
- Add 1-2 sentences to the article you wrote about last week, and cite that statement to a reliable source, as you learned in the online training.
- The Citation Hunt tool shows unreferenced statements from articles. First, evaluate whether the statement in question is true! An uncited statement could just be lacking a reference or it could be inaccurate or misleading. Reliable sources on the subject will help you choose whether to add it or correct the statement.
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 13 February 2018 | Thursday, 15 February 2018
- Assignment - Training Module
- Sandboxes (5 points)
Please complete the Wikipedia training modules below:
- Best practices for working in groups
- Select one group member whose Sandbox space you'll all share to draft your article. (It will be titled something like User:Diderot/sandbox.) Each person should link to that shared Sandbox from their own Sandbox page. A sandbox is like any other page on Wikipedia, and anyone can edit it.
- If you are lost and can't find your sandbox, click here.
- Wikipedia doesn't handle multiple people editing from different devices at the same time very well. If you're working together in person, one person should add the work to the Sandbox. If you are all working independently, make small edits and save often to avoid "editing conflicts" with classmates. Make sure that you're logged in under your own Wikipedia account while editing in your classmate's sandbox to ensure your edits are recorded.
- Don't create a group account for your project. Group accounts are prohibited.
- Assignment - Your Article I
- Choose your subtopic / Find your sources (25 points)
It's finally time to start working on your Wikipedia article.
- Review page 6 of your Editing Wikipedia guidebook.
- Find your assigned article from the list of "Available Articles" on the Articles tab on this course page, and click Select to assign it to yourself.
- In your group's shared sandbox, make a header called "Planned Work" and write a few sentences about what each of you plans to contribute to the selected article.
- Think back to the way Wikipedia articles are organized. Work with your group to divide up the content and responsibilities.
- Compile a list of relevant, reliable books, journal articles, or other sources. Post that bibliography to the talk page of the article you'll be working on, and in your sandbox. Make sure to check in on the Talk page to see if anyone has advice on your bibliography.
- Use the relevant guides from Wikipedia (below) to help you set up and organize your page:
Biographies
[https://wikiedu.org/environmental_sciences Environmental Sciences
][https://wikiedu.org/history History
][https://wikiedu.org/political_science Political Science
]Sociology
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 20 February 2018 | Thursday, 22 February 2018
- Assignment - Your Article II
- lead statement and initial content/layout (10 points)
Go to ASULearn: Your Article II: lead statement and initial content/layout to complete this assignment.
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 27 February 2018 | Thursday, 1 March 2018
- Assignment - Your Article III
- First full draft (50 points)
Go to ASULearn Your Article III: First full draft (50 points) for guidelines and grading rubric for this assignment.
- If you'd like a Wikipedia Expert to review your draft, now is the time! Click the "Get Help" button in your sandbox to request notes.
- If you are having problems with organization, sources, or content, please contact me (carmichaelsk
appstate.edu) ASAP so we can determine the best steps to take before the page gets sent for peer review.
You will be graded individually on the presence of a complete, cited section of the page that you agreed to work on several weeks ago.
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 13 March 2018 | Thursday, 15 March 2018
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 20 March 2018 | Thursday, 22 March 2018
- Assignment - Training Module
- Peer review (5 points)
Take the "Peer Review" online training.
- Assignment - Peer Review and Editing (30 points)
Click on the ASULearn Peer Review assignment for peer review assignment guidelines and grading rubric. You will be peer reviewing two articles; your reviews will be written on the Talk page of the sandbox and are due 3/27.
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 27 March 2018 | Thursday, 29 March 2018
- Assignment - Respond to your peer review
You will have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
- Read Editing Wikipedia pages 12 and 14.
- Return to your draft or article and think about the suggestions. Decide which ones to start implementing. Reach out to your instructor or your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
- Be sure to acknowledge feedback from other Wikipedians, especially those outside the university, in the talk page of the sandbox.
- Assignment - Training Module
- contributing images and media files (5 points)
Complete the training module below.
- Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia (5 points)
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."
Go to ASULearn: Begin moving your work to Wikipedia Mainspace (5 points) for assignment details.
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 5 April 2018
- 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 Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 10 April 2018 | Thursday, 12 April 2018
- Assignment - Your Article IV
- add images/media, links, additional content (25 points)
Read Editing Wikipedia page 12 to see how to create links from your article to others, and from other articles to your own, and add images to your page (if relevant).
Go to ASULearn's Your Article IV: add images/media, links, additional content (25 points) for the associated assignment.
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 17 April 2018 | Thursday, 19 April 2018
- 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 Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
Week 14
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 24 April 2018 | Thursday, 26 April 2018
Week 15
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 1 May 2018
- Assignment - Reflections on writing for Wikipedia (25 points)
Go to ASULearn: Reflections on Writing for Wikipedia (25 points) to answer questions about this semester-long Wikipedia assignment.
- Assignment - Your Article V
- Final article (80 points)
It's the final week to develop your 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 Wikipedia Expert at any time!
- Go to ASULearn: Your Article V: Final article (80 points). The final grading rubric is available there.