Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/The College of Wooster/The College of Wooster Wikipedia Project (Spring 2016)
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- Course name
- The College of Wooster Wikipedia Project
- Institution
- The College of Wooster
- Instructor
- Christa Craven
- Subject
- Women's Studies
- Course dates
- 2016-01-04 – 2016-05-31
- Approximate number of student editors
- 40
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/The_College_of_Wooster_Women%27s,Gender,and_Sexuality_Studies_Wikipedia_Edit-A-Thon,February22,_2016
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 1 February 2016
- In class - Wikipedia essentials
- Overview of the course
- Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
- Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.
Handout: Editing Wikipedia
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 8 February 2016
- Assignment - Learn the basics
- Begin the training modules assigned for your course. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 15 February 2016
- Assignment - Copyedit an article
- Choose one article, identify ways in which you can improve and correct its language and grammar, and make the appropriate changes. (You do not need to alter the article's content.)
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 22 February 2016
- Assignment - Add to an article
- Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with a citation to an appropriate source, to a Wikipedia article related to the class.