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This page has information on planning and resources for the online writing assignment taught by Piotr Konieczny for several Hanyang University sociology courses.

Edition

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List of courses from 2006-2011:

List of courses from 2013-present:

The goal of assignment in my classes is for students, working in groups or individually, to choose an underdeveloped or missing article on Wikipedia, related to sociology and course topics (ex. globalization, future, everyday life, collective intelligence) and improve it during the duration of the course (3.5 months). The assignment is done primarily on English, Korean and Chinese Wikipedias. Translations are allowed.

Introduction for students

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Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, is an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone. It has many millions (!) of editors (Wikipedians), many of whom are students like you. The vast majority of them are volunteers who find editing this site to be an enjoyable experience, even a hobby. Therefore I hope you will enjoy this exercise and the course! After all, there are not many exercises that tell you to do something that over a million people think is 'fun'. :)

Wikipedia:Tutorial is the best place to start your adventure with this wiki. Please familiarize yourself with instructions for students and if you have any questions, check the Wikipedia:FAQ/Editing or Help:Contents and if you cannot find what you are looking for, ask the friendly people at Wikipedia:Help desk - or just contact me.

Before making any major edits, it is recommended that you create an account (video tutorial). You definitely need to have an account before attempting to do any wiki-related coursework (otherwise we will be unable to confirm if you have completed the exercise). After you create an account, if you know your group already, add your name to the relevant section of this page.

Remember that Wikipedia is not a project limited only to our university. We are guests here and we should all behave accordingly. Please make sure you read Wikipedia:Wikiquette. Please try to think what impression you want other Wikipedians to have of our university — and of yourselves.

You should expect that the course lecturer, other students, your friends, and even (or especially) other Wikipedia editors (not affiliated with our course) will leave you various messages on your talk pages. When working on the exercises below, you should log in to Wikipedia and check your messages as often as you check your email (I strongly recommend you read 'as often' as 'at least daily'). Whenever you have a new message and are logged to Wikipedia, you will see a large orange message, 'You have new messages', on every Wikipedia page you access. To make this message disappear, you should click on it and read the message. Note that it is customary to leave new messages at the bottom of the talk/discussion pages, and to reply to somebody's messages on their talk pages. If you want to leave somebody a message, make sure you are editing their talk page, not their user page. Remember to sign your talk and discussion messages (you may want to watch this tutorial on using talk pages).

Some other useful tips: whenever you are done with an edit and want to save a page, fill out the edit summary box and view a preview of the page after your edit to make sure it looks as you actually want it to look. Only then click the "Save Page" button. You may find the page history tool and watchlist tools to be very useful when you want to check what changes by other editors have been made to the article(s) you are working on.

Please direct any questions to my talk page. You are welcome to send emails, or drop by to see me during our office hours, and ask about Wikipedia how-to; but please try to find the answer first on the Help:Contents.

Assignment

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Now that you are familiar with the Wikipedia environment, it is time to jump into your assignment.

Note: Assignment 1 is for the Collective Intelligence / Social Development classes. Assignment 2 is for the Wikovyage/Wikidata classes. Assignment 3 is for all other classes.

Project overview:

By the end of 1st month of the course, each group (of 2 students) has to

1) select a English Wikipedia article related to the course topic that does not exist on Korean Wikipedia (http://ko.wiki.x.io/) (How?) [Note 1] and

2) select one English Wikivoyage article (http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Main_Page) related to Korea that does not exist or is a stub or an outline

3) an article related to the course topic on English Wikipedia that is missing or in need of expansion (for globalization, see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Korea/Redlist#Economy_and_society and Wikipedia:WikiProject Globalization/Requested articles for some ideas).

Over the next two months, you will

1) translate the first article from English to Korean Wikipedia and write and/or expand the second article in English.

2) improve it to at least the ‘usable’ status (explanation of what is meant by terms stub, outline, or usable is here: http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Article_status)

3) write and/or expand the article in English. Those assignments should be ideally finished by the end of the third month of the course.

Note: if you are working by yourself, then instead of working on 1 article in English AND 1 article in Korean you just need to choose either 1 article on English OR 2 articles in Korean

Note 2: if you are an exchange student, you can change Korean to Chinese, German, or any other language of your preference. In other words, only the English part of this assignment is not-changeable, but Korean can be replaced with another language of your choice.

Stages and deadlines

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If the specific date is a holiday in a given year, check the syllabus or ask the professor what is the correct deadline. Also, your syllabus may have additional notes not present here and takes precedence. Unless otherwise stated, the deadline can be met by the second class of the given week.

Deadline 1: Week 2

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You should complete the Wikipedia:Training/For students (you can also do additional training in Korean at 위키백과:길라잡이 for extra credit) and enroll in our course at https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/ (see above for a link to your particular course and password). Completing those two steps gets you 5% of the assignment grade. To prove that you have completed the Training, you have to leave me a Wikipedia talk message (at User_talk:Piotrus) saying you completed it and confirm that you have enrolled in the dashboard system; I'll then review your edits. If you successfully complete this step, I'll leave you a Wikipedia message on your talk page. If you do not receive such a message, it means you have not completed this assignment successfully. If you complete the assignment partially, the message I will leave will contain information on what to fix. Common mistakes include not signing your post properly, posting while not logged in, or not posting in the correct place.

Note about Training for Students. This activity is composed of many modules. For now, you should complete: 1) all modules in the Basics section and 2) all modules in the How-to refreshers section I also recommend but do not require that you read modules on "Contributing images and media files", "Translating articles" and as many of the "Exercises" as you can. For each exercise you complete, you can post a message on my talk page with a proof that you have done so (edit or reflexive blog post) and I'll give you extra credit.

Deadline 2: Week 3

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Each student has to choose the article she or he will be working on and inform me of their selection (see here for the list of articles worked on by students in my past courses, and here for some ideas for topics still recently available). If we have regular classes, you are required to come to my office and show me which article you have selected; otherwise, we will discuss it using email or the Wikipedia discussion page system. To complete this you should leave me a message about your new topic on my Wikipedia talk page (you should do this even if you came to my office or send me an email!). I will reply there and if I accept it you should then add it to your profile in the dashboard (https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org Editors - > Article Assignments). Updating the dashboard is part of the activity required to get full credit for completing that deadline and adding your approved topic to the dashboard completes this deadline.

Deadline 3: Week 4

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Each student has to make at least one edit outside a sandbox in which they add an inline reference (citation). How to do this is covered by the Training: For Students module “Adding citations” which you should have completed by now. To complete this you should leave me a message about your new topic on my Wikipedia talk page. I will reply there. When I do you know that this assignment has been completed. The reference should be added to an article that is different from your main project(s). You can find a big list of articles with bad or missing references related to Korean topics here. To get the best grade, you should use a citation template (위키백과:인용 틀) and make sure your reference has a title, author, publisher, date of publication (if available), and translated title (if the reference has a different language from the Wikipedia it is published on).

Deadline 4: Week 5

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If you are researching a new topic (not just translating), you should create an outline of your project in your personal sandbox (user draft space) and notify me that you have done so on my talk page. Your sandbox is located [2]. DO NOT use the Wikipedia:Draft system! If you are confused, please watch our video on "Wikipedia Sandbox Feature". If you are translating an article, I expect your translation to be at least 50% done.

An outline should contain 1) headings for each section 2) brief paragraph for each section (1-3 sentences at least) explaining what will be discussed here and 3) list of references you are using. References should be formatted with citation templates/footnotes just like in Deadline 3. I will review your project and provide feedback about it on your talk page, please make sure to read it! Please confirm you read it by leaving me a message on my talk page, this will complete this deadline.

Deadline 5 (Week 9)

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Your article should be mostly finished at that point. If we have regular classes, you are required to come to my office so I can review your draft; otherwise, we will discuss it using email or the Wikipedia discussion page system. You should inform me through the Wikipedia system that your article is ready for a review. Then I will provide feedback to you on your talk page about your article. Please confirm you read it by leaving me a message on my talk page, this will complete this deadline.

Deadline 6 (Week 10)

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You should review an article by another student (you can see what your colleagues work by going to Dashboard - Editors - Article Assignments). You should leave them feedback in the form of a constructive suggestions) on their user talk page (please don’t confuse the sandbox talk page with their user talk page). Then inform me on my talk page you have provided feedback to another editor (link their talk page, for example by using the WP:DIFF feature), this will complete this deadline.

Deadline 7 (Weeks 11-16)

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This is not a graded deadline, just a reminder that at this time you can still ask me for additional reviews, or complete extra assignments/edits for extra credit.

Deadline 8 (Week 17/FINALS)

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I will begin reviewing and grading your project

End of the course

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  • after the final week: articles will be graded by me.

Grading

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How to fail the assignment: plagiarism will result in immediate failure.

This assignment is worth 50% of the final score. You get 20% from meeting deadlines on time and complete their elements, and 30% from the final article's quality.

Here is a description of quality classes for an article. What we are aiming is the B-class.

Article's quality class Course credit points earned
stub class 1-5
start class 5-10
C-class 10-20
B-class 20-30
Good Article class extra credit awarded

The following shows a breakdown of a points available for a 30-point article:

  1. Well-written:0-4
    1. the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct; and
    2. it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation.
  2. Verifiable with no original research: 0-10
    1. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline
    2. reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose);
    3. it contains no original research; and
    4. it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism.
  3. Broad in its coverage:0-10
    1. it addresses the main aspects of the topic;
    2. it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).
  4. Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each.0-4
  5. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio: 0-2
    1. media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content; and
    2. media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.

For the Wikovoyage class, the grading scale is similar but based on http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Article_status rubric

Editors

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Course instructor: User:Piotrus (Piotr Konieczny)

Student editors: check the link the particular year edition on top

Individual extra credit edits

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Extra credit edits (the students have the opportunity to earn extra credit with sociology-related wikipedia editing).

What to do for extra credit? Edit sociology related articles and inform the instructor; they will be graded just like the regular assignment. You can start new articles or improve the existing ones.

Edits

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Most of the edits by students for my courses can be found here: User:Piotrus/Educational project results

Questions?

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Post them at the discussion page of this article and/or email your course instructor!

Notes

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  1. ^ To find articles that exist in one language wiki, but not in another, you can use Wmflabs Tool "Not in the other language". Try this World systems theory example to find articles in en-wiki Category "World systems theory" that do not exist in ko-wiki.
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