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Semana 1: Wikipedia essentials
- En clase
- Overview of the course
- Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
- Documento para lectura: Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation)
- Tarea (due Semana 2)
- Start the online student orientation. During this training, you will create an account, make edits in a sandbox, y learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
Semana 2: Editing basics
- En clase
- Basics of editing
- Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good y bad articles
- Tips on finding the best articles to work on for class Tareas
- Documentos para lectura: Using talk pages, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality, Wikimarkup cheatsheet
- Tareas (due Semana 3)
- Complete the online training for students.
- Create a user page, y sign up on the list of students on the course page.
- To practice editing y communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself to any Wikipedians helping your class (such as a Wikipedia Ambassador), y leave a message for a classmate on their user talk page.
- Hito de logro
- All students have Wikipedia user accounts y are listed on the course page.
Semana 3: Exploring the topic area
- En clase
- Documentos para lectura: Advice for choosing articles y How to get help
- Tareas (due Semana 4)
- Critically evaluate an existing Wikipedia article related to the class, y leave suggestions for improving it on the article’s talk page.
- Research y list 3–5 articles on your Wikipedia user page that you will consider working on as your main project. Ask your instructor for comment.
Semana 4: Using sources
- En clase
- Documentos para lectura: “Referencing on Wikipedia” y “Understanding Wikipedia’s copyright policy”
- Tarea (due Semana 5)
- Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with a citation to an appropriate source, to a Wikipedia article related to the class.
- For next Semana
- Instructor evaluates student's article selections, by Semana 5.
Semana 5: Choosing articles
- En clase
- Discuss the range of topics students will be working on y strategies for researching y writing about them.
- Tareas (due Semana 6)
- Select an article to work on, removing the rest from your user page. Add your article to the class’s course page.
- Compile a bibliography of relevant research y post it to the talk page of the article you are working on. Begin reading the sources.
Semana 6: Drafting starter articles
- En clase
- Talk about Wikipedia culture y etiquette, y (optionally) revisit the concept of sandboxes y how to use them.
- Q&A session with instructor y/or Wikipedia Ambassadors about
interacting on Wikipedia y getting started with writing.
- Tareas (due Semana 7)
- If you are starting a new article, write a 3–4 paragraph summary version of your article—with citations—in your Wikipedia sandbox. If you are improving an existing article, write a summary version reflecting the content the article will have after it's been improved, y post this along with a brief description of your plans on the article’s talk page.
- Begin working with classmates y other editors to polish your short starter article y fix any major issues.
- Continue research in preparation for expanding your article.
- Hito de logro
- All students have started editing articles or drafts on Wikipedia.
Semana 7: Moving articles to the main space
- En clase
- Documento para lectura: Moving out of your sandbox
- Tareas (due Semana 8)
- Move sandbox articles into main space.
- Optional: For new articles or qualifying expansions of stubs, compose a one-sentence “hook,” nominate it for “Did you know,” y monitor the nomination for any issues identified by other editors.
- Begin expanding your article into a comprehensive treatment of the topic.
Semana 8: Building articles
- Workshop En clase or outside of class
- Demo uploading images y adding images to articles.
- Share experiences y discuss problems.
- Documentos para lectura: “Uploading images” y “Evaluating Wikipedia article quality” (handed out originally in Semana 2)
- Tareas (due Semana 9)
- Expand your article into an initial draft of a comprehensive treatment of the topic.
- Select two classmates’ articles that you will peer review y copy-edit. (You don’t need to start reviewing yet.)
Semana 9: Getting y giving feedback
- En clase
- As a group, have the students offer suggestions for improving one or two of the students' articles, setting the example for what is expected from a solid encyclopedia article.
- Tareas (due Semana 10)
- Peer review two of your classmates' articles. Leave suggestions on the article talk pages.
- Copy-edit the two reviewed articles.
- Hito de logro
- All articles have been reviewed by others. All students have reviewed articles by their classmates.
Semana 10: Responding to feedback
- En clase
- Open discussion of the concepts of neutrality, media literacy,
y the impact y limits of Wikipedia.
- Tareas (due Semana 11)
- Make edits to your article based on peers’ feedback. Prepare for an in-class presentation about your Wikipedia editing experience.
Semana 11: Class presentations
- En clase
- Students give in-class presentations about their experiences editing Wikipedia.
- Tareas (due Semana 12)
- Add final touches to your Wikipedia article.
- Write a reflective essay (2-5 pages) on your Wikipedia contributions.
Semana 12: Due date
You made it!
- Hito de logro
- Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading, y have submitted reflective essays.