Wikipedia:Meetup/ETUG 2017 Edit-a-thon
 ETUG 2017 Spring Jam | |
| When and Where | |
|---|---|
| Date | Thursday, June 1, 2017 |
| Time | 10:30am - 12:30 pm |
| Location | ETUG Spring Jam, UBC Okanagan Campus |
| City, State | Kelowna, BC |
As part of the BC Educational Technology Users Group 2017 Spring Jam, we invite you to join us for an Intro to Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. The focus of the Spring Jam 2017 is to bring participants together to share innovative approaches and processes used in designing for education and to work on real-world wicked-design problems/challenges. Wikipedia-based assignments can engage students in an authentic learning experience that involves open collaboration, critical thinking, and knowledge building for a global audience. When students write or edit in wikipedia, they are not using the same format or skills that they would in writing a research paper or persuasive essay – they are applying new strategies to produce knowledge that people will use in the real world and they are building digital literacies. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary.
Event Details
[edit]- Date: Thursday, June 1st
- Time:10:30am to 12:15pm
- Location: ETUG Spring Jam, UBC Okanagan Campus
Participation
[edit]Planning on attending the event? Here's some steps you may want to take beforehand:
- Don't have a Wikipedia Account? Create one!
- Let us know that you are planning to participate by signing-up via the dashboard
- Look at the resources below
- Join us on June 1st
Editing Assignment
[edit]You will have about 45-minutes to choose an article stub and edit it in some way. This is your opportunity to take the perspective of a student as you throw yourselves into the editing process. Have fun and be bold!
Useful Guides
[edit]- Wikipedia's Editing Tutorial: help with everything from formatting to citing sources.
- Visual Editor: User's Guide
- Article stubs for expansion: Top-level categories
Step 1: Choose your stub
[edit]- Navigate to your subject area on the Article stubs for expansion: Top-level categories page
- Find something in your discipline but try to choose a topic that you are not an expert in. Part of this process is putting yourself in the position as student.
- As an alternative; use the Citation Hunt Tool to find an article with a missing citation.
Step 2: Consider how to improve it
[edit]Here are some options:
- Organize by applying headings according to a standard article layout. See page 7 of your Instructor Basics guide.
- Add a section. See page 7 of your Instructor Basics Guide for standard section types.
- Find a notable reference and add a citation. See Adding_a_new_reference Visual Editor: User's Guide
- Add content.
- Add some links. See Wikipedia's Editing Tutorial
- Add an image: See Wikipedia: Uploading images.
Step 3: Edit, save and summarize
[edit]- Review core content policies
- Write an edit summary after you finish your edit and before you hit save. See Help: Edit Summaries.
Resources
[edit]Wikipedia Overview
[edit]- Wikipedia: Plain and Simple
- Wikipedia: Five Pillars
- What Wikipedia is Not: a good general guide to start.
Guidelines and Policy
[edit]- Core Content Policies
- Wikipedia's Notability Guidelines: how to ensure that what you write is verifiable by readers.
- Wikipedia's Notability Guidelines (related to Academics): additional considerations for notability when writing about professors/researchers.
- Wikipedia's Guidelines for Biographies of Living Persons
Editing Support
[edit]Printable Guides
[edit]- Case Studies: How Professors Are Teaching with Wikipedia
- Instructor Basics: How to Use Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool
- Editing Wikipedia Guide for Student Editors (Note: If you are not using WikiEdu, pgs 4-6 will be most relevant to you)
- Illustrating Wikipedia
- Evaluating Wikipedia
- Other resources for students - including subject specific handouts.
Drafts and Publishing
[edit]Stubs
[edit]- Wikipedia Stubs: explains what stubs are.
- Stubs for development/expansion