Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/North Carolina State University/Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Living (Fall 2021): Difference between revisions

This course examines the myriad ways that culture serves to mediate the human-environmental equation, giving focus to different belief systems, subsistence strategies, technological achievements, and policy formulations. Topics covered include cultural ecology, gender and the environment, land tenure, development, ethnoscience and cognitive ecology, subsistence and social organization, historical and political ecology, environmentalism, and environmental policy issues.

Students will be reading a series of brief assignments, prioritizing the kinds of information they think needs publicizing, and reporting on these through wikipedia. On my end, I will be working with students on public communication of science.

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings

Tuesday, 17 August 2021 | Thursday, 19 August 2021

This page will guide us through our Wikipedia assignment

Week 2

Course meetings

Tuesday, 24 August 2021 | Thursday, 26 August 2021

See syllabus to write annotations that will contribute to Wikipedia.

Week 3

Course meetings

Tuesday, 31 August 2021 | Thursday, 2 September 2021

See syllabus to write annotations that will contribute to Wikipedia.

Week 4

Course meetings

Tuesday, 7 September 2021 | Thursday, 9 September 2021

Assignment - Sep 7: read this "Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment"

Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:

Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
Evaluating Wikipedia

Assignment - Sep 7: Read this "Get started on Wikipedia"

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

Assignment - Sep 7: Read "Evaluating articles" and "How to Edit" before class.

Assignment - Sep 9: Complete this section on "Choose possible topics" before class

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Helpful Hint: Bookmark pages through "Assign myself an article"

In class - Sep 9: We'll Discuss

In class - Sep 9: We'll compare "Guides for writing articles in your topic area"

Cultural Anthropology

Environmental Sciences

In class - Sep 9: We'll "add to an article" during class

Week 5

Course meetings

Tuesday, 14 September 2021 | Thursday, 16 September 2021

In class - Keep working on annotations until our next Wikipedia Week

Week 6

Course meetings

Tuesday, 21 September 2021 | Thursday, 23 September 2021

In class - Keep working on annotations until our next Wikipedia Week

Week 7

Course meetings

Tuesday, 28 September 2021 | Thursday, 30 September 2021

In class - Keep working on annotations until our next Wikipedia Week

Week 8

Course meetings

Thursday, 7 October 2021

In class - Keep working on annotations until our next Wikipedia Week

Week 9

Course meetings

Tuesday, 12 October 2021 | Thursday, 14 October 2021

Oct 12: Complete this plagiarism tutorial before class

Check out this easy blog post, too!

Assignment - Oct 12: Draft entries totaling half your contracted word count into ONE box

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Assignment - Oct 12: Before class, take this peer review training.

Guiding framework

Assignment - Oct 12: In class, write a peer review & respond to your partner's review.

You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:

Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Assignment - Oct 14: Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 10

Course meetings

Tuesday, 19 October 2021 | Thursday, 21 October 2021

Assignment - 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 11

Course meetings

Tuesday, 26 October 2021 | Thursday, 28 October 2021

Assignment - Final article

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!

Assignment - Reflective essay

Week 12

Course meetings

Tuesday, 2 November 2021 | Thursday, 4 November 2021

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 You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.