Wikipedia:Canada Education Program/Courses/Seminar in Physiology (Louise Milligan)/Timeline
Timeline
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- Assignment
- Read about the “Five Pillars” of WikipediaFive pillars, an explanation of Wikipedia's basic rules and principles
- Read at least the introductory sections (and more, if you desire) of the following articles:
- Neutral Point of View Policy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
- No Original Research Policy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
- Assignment, By 2
- 30m pm February 15, 2012
- Create a Wikipedia account, create a user page, and sign up on the list of students on the course page.
- To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself to one of the class's Online Ambassadors (via talk page), and leave a message for a classmate on their user talk page.
- Assignment, To be completed no later than April 11 2012
- Identify 3-5 existing Wikipedia articles related to the class material and a brief comment (3-5 sentences) as to why you chose the articles. Post to your user page.
- Based upon instructor feedback, critically evaluate one of those existing Wikipedia articles and leave suggestions (250 words minimum) for improving it on the article's discussion page. Make sure to include a rationale as to how the suggestions will, in fact, improve the article.
- Notify the course instructor when you have completed the review
- Useful information:
- Handouts and videos: Video on creating an account, Talk pages tutorial video, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure, Account and user page creation handout, Wikimarkup cheatsheet
- Handouts and videos: Referencing handout, Referencing: Wikicode handout, Plagiarism handout, Citing sources tutorial video, RefToolbar citation tool tutorial video
- Handout: Moving into main space, Submitting articles to Did You Know