Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/CUNY, Macaulay Honors College/Imagining Gender (Fall 2013)/Timeline

Timeline

Wikipedia essentials

In class

• Handouts: Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation) Using talk pages, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality, Wikimarkup cheatsheet

Assignment

• Start the online student orientation. During this training, you will create an account, make edits in a sandbox, and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia. Be sure to join our class site.
• To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself to any Wikipedians helping your class (such as a Wikipedia Ambassador), and leave a message for a classmate on their user talk page.
• Review The Year of the Flood page and think about where the content of the page could be expanded. Use our course Talk page to brainstorm areas of focus for the class.

Moving articles to the main space

In class

• Handout: Moving out of your sandbox “Uploading images”

Assignments

• Move sandbox Year of the Flood additions into main space.

(Click to return to your main course page and continue.)