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Course name
Special Topics in Physics - Modern Physics
Institution
University of Windsor
Instructor
Chitra Rangan
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Physics
Course dates
2023-01-02 00:00:00 UTC – 2023-04-30 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
5


The course is a standard undergraduate course on "Modern" physics that includes the discoveries and theories of the first half of the twentieth century, namely, the special theory of relativity, introductory quantum mechanics and introduction to nuclear and particle physics. The upper-year year students who take this course will do a Wikipedia assignment where they will read original papers on some of the foundational experiments and write about them. Quite often, accounts of these experiments include later knowledge, and the students will be able to differentiaet between what were the original results and how has our understanding changed (in textbooks) since then.

Student Assigned Reviewing
CoulsonT Solarization (physics) Communication physics
Cunning8 Communication physics Solarization (physics)

Timeline

Week 4

Course meetings
Wednesday, 25 January 2023   |   Friday, 27 January 2023
In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment

Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:

Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 5

Course meetings
Monday, 30 January 2023   |   Wednesday, 1 February 2023   |   Friday, 3 February 2023
Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia
In class - Discussion

Week 6

Course meetings
Monday, 6 February 2023   |   Wednesday, 8 February 2023   |   Friday, 10 February 2023
Assignment - Choose your article
In class - Discussion
Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Science Communication

Week 7

Course meetings
Monday, 13 February 2023   |   Wednesday, 15 February 2023   |   Friday, 17 February 2023
Assignment - Make a small edit

Week 8

Course meetings
Monday, 27 February 2023   |   Wednesday, 1 March 2023   |   Friday, 3 March 2023
Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 9

Course meetings
Monday, 6 March 2023   |   Wednesday, 8 March 2023   |   Friday, 10 March 2023
Assignment - Peer review an article

Guiding framework

Milestones
Milestones

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Assignment - Respond to your peer review

You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:

  • Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
  • Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Week 10

Course meetings
Monday, 13 March 2023   |   Wednesday, 15 March 2023   |   Friday, 17 March 2023
Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 11

Course meetings
Monday, 20 March 2023   |   Wednesday, 22 March 2023   |   Friday, 24 March 2023
Assignment - Final article

It's the final week to develop your article.

  • Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
  • Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!
Assignment - Reflective essay

Week 12

Course meetings
Monday, 27 March 2023
Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.

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