Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Cornell University/Online Communities (Fall 2014)
Here, all class members and teaching staff can talk about your class assignment, Wikipedia editing, or anything else you'd like your classmates' or Ambassador's help with. Just create a "new section" from the tab at the top or "edit source" to respond to another post. Happy editing! LeshedInstructor (talk) 13:08, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Project groups and articles[edit]
In class on September 4, we covered more basic Wikipedia editing, including talk pages and sources. To get start working on your Wikipedia project article, do the following, by September 11:
- Find a group of 3-4 students, interdisciplinary (at least 2 majors)
- Choose an article you will be working on for your project. Here are some considerations for the article:
- C-class level – this can be seen when you switch to the talk page of the article on the top banner.
- You have an interest in the topic and preferably – but not necessarily – some knowledge about it.
- Has a broad appeal to the knowledge world, e.g., not a local business or group.
- Has some level of interest in it in the Wikipedia community, identified through the history page and talk page – you can see that there has been some editing and conversations in the past few months
- You can identify a variety of different reliable sources that will substantially expand the article, e.g., not all from the Cornell Sun or a random blog
- On the top of the talk page, add the following template:
- {{ course assignment | course = Education Program:Cornell University/Online Communities (Fall 2014) | term = Fall 2014 }}
- This can be done by clicking the “edit” tab in the talk page, and pasting the template text at the top of the talk page, just below all the other templates. Please consult the teaching staff if you need help.
- This will result in the following banner:
This article was the subject of an educational assignment in Fall 2014. Further details were available on the "Education Program:Cornell University/Online Communities (Fall 2014)" page, which is now unavailable on the wiki.
- Write a proposal on the talk page of the article you have chosen:
- Create a new section on the talk page, which will be added to the bottom of the talk page
- Describe that you are going to work on this article as part of a class assignment. Include a link to your user pages and to the course page.
- Summarize what the content of the article will be after you will improve it:
- The sections you will work on or add and a summary of their content
- Initial list of references and sources and where you will get more sources
- Images and other multi-media, to which sections you will add them and where you will get them from
- Changes to the organization/structure of the article
- In the table below, list your group members, including links to your user pages, and the article you will be working on including a link to the article page:
