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Timeline

Week 3: Wikipedia essentials, Thursday, January 30

Before class

• Fill out the short survey under Wikipedia Survey in Blackboard (important to do this first!!!)
• Create your wikipedia account
• Complete the online training for students. (try out the interactive training and go for a barnstar)
• Familiarize yourself with this handout: Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation)

In class

• Overview of the course
• Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
• Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good and bad articles
• Choose an article to analyze for next week:
  • Annea Lockwood
  • Pauline Oliveros
  • Maggi Payne
  • Carla Scaletti

Milestone

• All students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.

Week 4: Editing basics

Before class

• Read the following short online pieces:
  • Wikipedia's Editors are all Males: here's what they're doing about it
  • Sarah Stierch, Wikimedia Fellow, Wants To Bring More Women To Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists
• Analyze the article you selected, and relying on course readings, reserve materials, and what you know about Wikipedia articles, bring comments on what you might add to your article.

In class

• Basics of editing
• Handouts: Using talk pages, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality, Wikimarkup cheatsheet

Week 7: Choose your Biography

By the end of the week

• Review potential composers for your project and choose the subject for your biography.

Week 9: Bibliography Due

Before class

• Post a list of 7-10 secondary sources for your article to your talk page.

Week 10: Start your writing

Before class Thursday, March 20th

• Have an initial short draft of your article posted to your sandbox

Week 11: Go Public

In class Tuesday, March 25th

• Be prepared to move your article into the public sphere
  • We'll work in class on citation formatting and any issues/problems we're having.
  • We will finish getting outlines in and get started on some peer review in class

Guidelines for Peer Review

• 1. Check for appropriate and correct citations!
• 2. Anything missing (biographical facts, gaps in life or career, recent doings)?
• 3. Copyedit: is it readable? Are antecedents clear (niceties such as sentence variety come later)?
• 4. Is the language consistently neutral? (look for demonstrative adjectives, instances of bias, etc).
• 5. Is there original research (opinion, speculation, pontificating, etc.)?
• 6. Is your entry assignable to wikipedia categories (e.g. Washington state composers, 1956 births, etc.)

Peer review comments are due on two articles by Thursday, April 2nd.

Week 13: Reviewing articles

Before class Tuesday, April 8th

• Incorporate any changes and revisions as appropriate from your peer review

Week 14: Adding Media

In class Tuesday, April 15th

• Discussion of copyright, creative commons and fair use
• Use the Wikipedia:Creation_and_usage_of_media_files guide to add media to your page:
  • Incorporate one image into your article from wikimedia commons or a site from the copyright friendly resources guide
  • Add a sound file to wikipedia files, include a fair use rationale, and add it to your page

Week 15: Presentations

In class

• Presentations on your article to the rest of the class. (Details to come)

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