Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Toronto Earth Sciences/Thinking About Planet Earth (Spring)
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- Course name
- Thinking About Planet Earth
- Institution
- University of Toronto Earth Sciences
- Instructor
- James Mungall
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Mass Extinctions
- Course dates
- 2016-01-04 – 2016-04-08
- Approximate number of student editors
- 21
Seminar course devoted to explorations of the Earth Sciences for first year Arts and Sciences students.
| Student | Assigned | Reviewing |
|---|---|---|
| Wellyiding | ||
| XBC199AZ | ||
| AliciaCKY | ||
| Sandra.lee97 | ||
| Allisonmb | ||
| Deepikha101 | ||
| Si Wen Cheng | ||
| Wenzhao Jiang | ||
| HMohamud97 | ||
| Jcjwang | ||
| BolindazheShi | ||
| Lilyyhlu | ||
| Oliviavb | ||
| Tanyastojovic | ||
| Miadaks | ||
| Camper37 | ||
| AliceKXZ |
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 13 January 2016
- In class - Wikipedia essentials
- Overview of the course
- Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
- Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.
Handout: Editing Wikipedia
- Assignment - Learn the basics
- Complete the online training for students. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 20 January 2016
- Assignment - Critique an article
- Review pages 4-7 of the Evaluating Wikipedia brochure. This will give you a good, brief overview of what to look for in other articles, and what other people will look for in your own.
- Evaluate an existing Wikipedia article related to the class, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's talk page.
- A few questions to consider (don't feel limited to these):
- Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?
- 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?
- Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
- Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
- Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
- Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
- Do a literature review and compile a list of possible references or sources for future additions to the article
Resources: Evaluating Wikipedia, Using Talk Pages
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 27 January 2016
- Assignment - Add to an article
- Add 5 to 10 sentences of new information, backed up with appropriate citations to appropriate sources, to the portion of the Wikipedia article that you critiqued in February
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 3 February 2016