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Timeline
[edit]Week 1: Wikipedia essentials
[edit]- Overview of the course and how Wikipedia will be used in the course
- Reading: Editing Wikipedia and Evaluating Wikipedia
- Optional:
- Check MyEd for training for Wikipedia editing
- Watch video Wikipedia guidelines and policies (10min)
- Watch video Wikipedia Editing (25min)
- Assignments (due Week 2)
- Create an account and then complete the online training for students. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
- Create a User page, and click the "enroll" button on the top left of this course page.
- To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia and leave a message for a classmate on their user talk page (see Using Talk Pages). It is highly recommended that you enable the VisualEditor.
Week 2: Exploring the topic area
[edit]- Pick a topic from the course handbook that you wish to explore further and confirm with the course manager. Only one student can pick a given topic.
- For each topic, identify a Wikipedia article you would like to write (see suggestions below). It would be easier to write a new article, but you can also improve on an existing article. Speak to the course manager if you wish to do the latter.
- Reading: Choosing an article and How to get help
- Assignments (due Week 3)
- Select an article to work on and add your article to the class’s course page.
Weeks 3-X: Begin writing article
[edit]- Compile a bibliography of relevant research and post it to the talk page of the article you are working on. Begin reading the sources.
- Begin by writing a 3–4 paragraph summary version of your article—with citations—in your Wikipedia sandbox. Expand as you go along, aiming at a minimum of 3 references and 1,000 words.
- Reading: Citing sources on Wikipedia and Avoiding plagiarism on Wikipedia
- Attend training
Week X: Moving articles to the main space
[edit]- Add final touches to your Wikipedia article and move sandbox article into main space.
- Students give in-class presentations related to their Wikipedia article.
- Reading: Moving out of your sandbox
Suggested Articles
[edit]Week 4: Multiple Religious Belonging
[edit]- Comparative theology (the article exists but can be improved)
- Multiple religious belonging
Week 5: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation
[edit]Week 6: Liberation Theology in Context
[edit]- African women's theology
- Asian feminist theology
- Minjung theology (the article exists but can be improved)
- Mujerista theology
Week 7: Christianity and Politics
[edit]- Political theology (Middle East)
- Political theology (Sub-Saharan Africa)
- Public theology (the article redirects to Political theology but can be distinguished and improved)
Week 8: Christianity in an Age of Migration
[edit]Week 10: Healing Bodies, Saving Souls
[edit]Week 11: Gender, Order, Culture
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