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Wikipedia Article

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Background

Throughout the course, we have been reading not only about Wikipedia and how it may (or may not) be a force for social change, but we have also begun to become knowledgeable about the way that Wikipedia works.  We understand that an article's quality standard is its verifiability, organization, and sentence-level writing.  We also understand that no one person or group of people is responsible for the creation of any one Wikipedia article and that anyone can edit an article.  The test, however, is whether revisions or edits will remain over time and in what form they will survive, or if they, in turn, will be omitted (this is called a revert) by future Wikipedia users.

 

Task

Your task is to identify a Wikipedia article that you want to analyze and improve with others.  A likely candidate for this would be your non-featured article for the Wikipedia Feature Article Analysis.  However, if you wish to pick another non-featured article to nominate in the Wikipedia Article Group Formation discussion, you are welcome to do so. This should not be an article that is already a featured article according to Wikipedia.  In fact, my strong recommendation is that you pick an article with a Start, C-, or B-class rating.  A higher rating makes it just that much harder to improve the article significantly.  

 

This will be a group assignment (up to three people).  

 

Structure

The structure of the article should be based on the criteria established by the Wikipedia community.

 

The highest standard for Wikipedia articles is Featured Article status.  Use the criteria for a Featured Article to guide your work.  (You might also be influenced by a particular group's take on the criteria.  For instance, if a group were to focus on the "Safe School Coalition Australia," by clicking that article's Talk tab, that group would learn that this article is of special interest to something called the WikiProject LBGT Studies group.  If we were to follow the link WikiProject LGBT studiesit would provide us with much more detail about criteria for Wikipedia articles in this category.  This is generally true of most Wikipedia articles; there is a specific group that finds the article of interest to them. )  

 

The writing for this assignment will occur in two places

  • each group's Wikipedia Article Collaboration page here on our course wiki
  • each group's actual Wikipedia article on Wikipedia that the group is improving

 

On the collaboration page in our course wiki, your group is expected to do the following:

 

1) Create an action plan

2) Explain which criteria are being addressed and why

     ***Each group must begin with the criterium of "well-researched," since the assignment requires additional research anyway (see below).  

3) List possible new sources for information for the article and evaluate them according to the Evaluating Sources resource.  

4) Paste the 350 words of new text added to the Wikipedia article into this wiki as well. 

5) Create a link to the Discussion/Talk page for your article

 

In Wikipedia itself, your group is expected to do the following:

 

1) As a group, add to your article  words of new text that follow Wikipedia criteria for Wikipedia featured articles. Pay particular attention to

  • NPOV
  • using quotation, paraphrase, and summary appropriately, thus avoiding copy/paste plagiarism
  • including accurate and credible citations

2) Announce and explain your planned changes on the Discussion/Talk page for your article. Also, monitor the Discussion/Talk for response from other Wikipedians

3) Login and include an edit summary whenever making edits

 

Additional Resources

Grading rubric

 

Sample Format for Wikipedia Collaboration Page

 

Student Samples

Tipping Points in the Climate System (a great example of how a group responds to being shutdown by other Wikipedia editors and uses the article's Talk page to start to build consensus)

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Environmental Crime Collaborative Page

Feminist Movement

 

 

Page on which to post Collaboration pages

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