Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of Portsmouth/Applied Human Geography (Spring 2014)/Timeline
Timeline[edit]
Week 1: Assignments issued[edit]
- Lecture: Introduction to assignment; how we know about places we haven't been to.
- Class: Using the checklists to find articles that "work"; making the simplest possible change.
Week 2: Researching parishes[edit]
- Lecture: What is a parish; systematic sources of information.
- Class: Adding a quotation from a historical source, and a population time series.
Week 3: Qualitative sources[edit]
- Lecture: Finding photographs and old maps online.
Week 4: Working with Wikipedia and Wikipedians[edit]
- Lecture: History of Wikipedia and how it works; the Wikipedia community.
During March[edit]
Articles should be extended by adding interpretative text based on the statistical sources, and also by using initiative to locate additional online sources, and possibly through careful use of e-mail. By the end of March a first draft of the article should be complete, and open to comment and revision by other Wikipedians.
End of Term[edit]
- Lecture: Finishing off your article; when to quote and when to cite; avoiding plagiarism
- Draft articles to be presented to tutorial groups
During April[edit]
Students should monitor article for comments and editing by others, and respond by further improving their article prior to submission of a printed version at the start of the summer term.