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Course name
T REMOTE Berkeley Interdisciplinary Research Group on Privacy - Coleman Lab
Institution
University of California, Berkeley
Instructor
Naniette Coleman
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
privacy
Course dates
2020-09-13 00:00:00 UTC – 2020-12-05 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
20


The Interdisciplinary Research Group on Privacy was founded at UC Berkeley during the summer of 2016. The semester long, discovery-oriented, research (and professional) skills training program focuses on the review, discussion, translation, and dissemination of privacy, surveillance, and cybersecurity knowledge to the public.

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings
Monday, 14 September 2020   |   Tuesday, 15 September 2020   |   Wednesday, 16 September 2020   |   Thursday, 17 September 2020   |   Friday, 18 September 2020
In class - Introduction to the Privacy Literacy Translation Project (Level 1)

Welcome to the Privacy Literacy Translation project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for our lab. During the school year the lab creates original Wikipedia pages on privacy, cybersecurity, and surveillance.  We also often translate those pages into foreign languages. Over the summer, students are tasked with helping us to get those newly translated articles up on foreign language Wikipedia sites. Additionally, students help to find articles on assigned foreighn language sites that are then translated into english. Before you get to work on our project it is important that you understand the process of doing edits on Wikipedia in english and creating an original Wikipedia page in english. Along the way you will also be helping to create tools to help future students uploading documents in the language(s) you are working on this summer.  Get excited you are doing groundbreaking work!  Let's get started! 


This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online training in english to help you get started on Wikipedia.  If you have never worked on Wikipedia before don’t worry we will guide you. Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your "Talk page" for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page. 


To help you plan your time the Executive Director of the Lab has assigned a "difficulty level" to each week of work.  These levels are based on the work of prior lab members.  The goal is to help you determine, in advance, how much effort will be required.  A Difficulty Level of 1 = easy effort; Difficulty Level 2 =  easy to moderate effort; Level 3 = moderate effort; Level 4 = moderate to intense effort; and Level 5 = intense effort. Check in ahead of time if you have questions and please make sure to plan accordingly.  

**Please, please, please, please DO NOT SKIP AHEAD. This course is designed to build upon content learned and practiced the prior week.  It is important to understand each week’s work thoroughly before moving onto next week’s steps.  This course site is also dynamic.  If you jump ahead you may start work that is ultimately moved to another week or not assigned.  Concentrate the work well that has been assigned to you during the current week**


To get started, please review the following handouts:


**Pay careful attention to the layout and content of the Editing Wikipedia document. It will be useful when you prepare your final assignment.**
 
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).
  •  ***When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself (use your username) to a classmate on that classmate's "Talk page."***
Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 2

Course meetings
Monday, 21 September 2020   |   Tuesday, 22 September 2020   |   Wednesday, 23 September 2020   |   Thursday, 24 September 2020   |   Friday, 25 September 2020
Assignment - Evaluate Two Privacy Articles on Wikipedia (Level 2)
For your assignment, you should complete this exercise for TWO articles.
 

To start, take the training linked here. Then, read the Wikipedia article about  information privacy and also go find a second article in the foreign language Wikipedia you are working in this term. The way to do the latter is to go to https://www.wikipedia.org/ and click on “Read Wikipedia in your language.”

Find your language and then find a page you want to evaluate on the topic of privacy, surveillance, or cyber security. Use those two articles (one in english and one in the foreign language) while you complete the exercise:

Use those two articles while you complete the exercise: 

Exercise

Evaluate an article

  • In your sandbox, write up your answers to these questions for the two articles you reviewed and then send them out on on our project email list by 11:59pm PST on Saturday.
  • Optional (feel like showing off): Choose at least 1 question from the above list that is relevant to one of the articles you're evaluating. Leave your evaluation on the article's "Talk page." Be sure to sign your feedback with four tildes — Locnamehn (talk) 17:40, 30 August 2020 (UTC). [reply]
Assignment - Weekly Lab Virtual “Discussion”
What's a Content Gap?

 Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider these additional questions. Send your answers out on on our project email list by 11:59pm PST on Saturday.


  • Wikipedians often talk about "content gaps." What do you think a content gap is, and what are some possible ways to identify them?
  • What are some reasons a content gap might arise? What are some ways to remedy them?
  • Does it matter who writes Wikipedia?
  • What does it mean to be "unbiased" on Wikipedia? How is that different, or similar, to your own definition of "bias"?

Week 3

Course meetings
Monday, 28 September 2020   |   Tuesday, 29 September 2020   |   Wednesday, 30 September 2020   |   Thursday, 1 October 2020   |   Friday, 2 October 2020
Assignment - Adding Citations (Level 2)
      • Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article. Use the training here and the exercise below to complete this assignment.***

 

Exercise

Add a citation



  • Please add a couple sentences to a privacy related Wikipedia article within your language and cite the source you found that information in, or you can use the Citation Hunt Tool (search for “privacy” if you use this) to find statements that need citations.
  • This task will require you to perform a bit of research. If you have questions send them out on the project email list. Wikipedia also has a ton of resources to help you. Click the "Get Help" button and use them.   
  • You will be creating a translation toolkit for your assigned language at the end of your time with the lab, pay attention to any differences you may observe between english Wikipedia and your language Wikipedia. Jot some notes down weekly and keep an eye out for requests to submit them. The more you keep track of diffrences the faster yoru final assignment will go. This week carefully consider any differences you notice between adding citations in your assigned language verses adding them in english Wikipedia.

 

Week 4

Course meetings
Monday, 5 October 2020   |   Tuesday, 6 October 2020   |   Wednesday, 7 October 2020   |   Thursday, 8 October 2020   |   Friday, 9 October 2020
In class - Getting to know your assigned article

This week we will begin to work with the Wikipedia article you will be posting in your assigned language’s Wikipedia.

Assignment - Weekly Lab Virtual “Discussion”
Articles Similarities and Differences

Read your assigned article in English and then read the translation provided to you in your assigned language. Once you have done that answer these questions. Put your answers in your sandbox along with the full text of your article in your assigned lanaguge by 11:59pm PST on Saturday and include them in your weekly memo.

  • Does the article read as well in your assigned langauge as it does in english?  
  • Are key concepts and terms expressed as well as in the version in your assigned language as they are in english?
  • What ideas do you have to improve this article keeping in mind that we will not be doing translations this summer.

Week 5

Course meetings
Monday, 12 October 2020   |   Tuesday, 13 October 2020   |   Wednesday, 14 October 2020   |   Thursday, 15 October 2020   |   Friday, 16 October 2020
In class - Content Creation & Plagiarism

Even though you will not be creating original content this summer you should get to know Wikipedia's rules surrounding content creation.  You should also get to know Wikipedia's rules on plagiarism.

Resources: Review page 6 of yourEditing Wikipedia guidebook. Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9

 

**Pay careful attention to the layout and content of the Editing Wikipedia document. It will be useful when you prepare your final assignment.**
 
Assignment - Weekly Lab Virtual “Discussion”
Thinking About Sources and Plagiarism

Now that you have reviewed the content of your article, you should review what you already know about sourcing and plagiarism. Additionally, start thinking about the differences in citation style based on your language Wikipedia. Put your answers in your sandbox by 11:59pm PST on Saturday.

 

  • What are some reasons you might not want to use a company's website as the main source of information about that company?
  • What is the difference between a copyright violation and plagiarism?
  • What are some good techniques to avoid close paraphrasing and plagiarism within a translated article?  
  • What are a few differences you notice between english citations and the citations in your assigned language?

 

**Be comprehensive and exhaustive, remember you will be creating a guide for your assigned language at the end of summer. You will also need this information to help complete next week’s task**




Add 5 and Edit 5

Starting this week till the end of lab, you will be searching for unique privacy articles within your language’s Wikipedia.

 

***Add five unique privacy, surveillance, or cybersecurity pages to the Privacy+ pages list for this semester on the lab web page.  Add a both the hyperlink and your name in brackets next to it. Edit every page you add to the list.  Possible Options:  Add two sentences.  Add a citation.  Fix punctuation.  Clarify a sentence or two.***
Don't forget to leave notes when you edit in Wikipedia (comment out your edit) so other Wikipedians know what you edited

Week 6

Course meetings
Monday, 19 October 2020   |   Tuesday, 20 October 2020   |   Wednesday, 21 October 2020   |   Thursday, 22 October 2020   |   Friday, 23 October 2020
In class - Editing Citations (Level 3)

You have edited or revised a well-constructed translated article into your language and gained knowledge on the differences in citation styles between English Wikipedia and the language you are translating into. Use this information to complete the next exercise.

 

 

Exercise 

Edit Citations 

  • Use the information you collected from the Week 5 “Weekly Lab Virtual Discussion” on differences between english Wikipedia and your language Wikipedia to think about citation style. 

Ex. When looking through the spanish language Wikipedia, I noticed that sources written in english had a note “(en inglés),” but the citations themselves were written in spanish.

  • Take time to thoughtfully edit your citations within your sandbox. Before you start you may want to take a look at a few other pages in your assigned language to make sure the style you are using makes sense. Check out the talk pages of a few articles and try to examine a few that are higher up on the quality scale when completing this task.

Put your answers in your sandbox by 11:59pm PST on Saturday and include them in your weekly memo.

 

 

 

Milestones

Everyone has completed their article. Citations have been formatted to fit the style of the specific language Wikipedia on which it will be hosted.

In class - Weekly Lab Virtual “Discussion”
Thinking About Wikipedia

Send your answers out on on our project email list by 11:59pm PST on Saturday.

  • What do you think of Wikipedia's definition of "neutrality"?
  • What are the impacts and limits of Wikipedia as a source of information?
  • On Wikipedia, all material must be attributable to reliable, published sources. What kinds of sources does this exclude? Can you think of any problems that might create?
  • If Wikipedia was written 100 years ago, how might its content (and contributors) be different? What about 100 years from now?
Assignment - Begin Wrapping Up Final Project

See email from Lab Leadership

Assignment - Add 5 and Edit 5

***Add five unique privacy, surveillance, or cybersecurity pages to the Privacy+ pages list for this semester on the lab web page.  Add a both the hyperlink and your name in brackets next to it. Edit every page you add to the list.  Possible Options:  Add two sentences.  Add a citation.  Fix punctuation.  Clarify a sentence or two.***
Don't forget to leave notes when you edit in Wikipedia (comment out your edit) so other Wikipedians know what you edited

Week 7

Course meetings
Monday, 26 October 2020   |   Tuesday, 27 October 2020   |   Wednesday, 28 October 2020   |   Thursday, 29 October 2020   |   Friday, 30 October 2020
Assignment - Begin Moving Your Work to Wikipedia (Level 4)

***Once you have both revised and edited your citations for your translated article, it's time to start moving your article to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."***   

Use the training above as a tool for moving your completed article to the mainspace. Remember, it is important that your completed translated page is located within the specific language Wikipedia it is in. Sandboxes do not transfer from language to language, you must make the page move within the specific language Wikipedia your article is translated into. 

Send an email to our project email list once you have started to upload your work into the mainspace for your assigned language.

 

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

 

**Pay careful attention to the layout and content of the Editing Wikipedia document. It will be useful when you prepare your final assignment.**
Assignment - Add 5 and Edit 5

***Add five unique privacy, surveillance, or cybersecurity pages to the Privacy+ pages list for this semester on the lab web page.  Add a both the hyperlink and your name in brackets next to it. Edit every page you add to the list.  Possible Options:  Add two sentences.  Add a citation.  Fix punctuation.  Clarify a sentence or two.***
Don't forget to leave notes when you edit in Wikipedia (comment out your edit) so other Wikipedians know what you edited

Week 8

Course meetings
Monday, 2 November 2020   |   Tuesday, 3 November 2020   |   Wednesday, 4 November 2020   |   Thursday, 5 November 2020   |   Friday, 6 November 2020
Assignment - Continue Improving your Article (Level 4)

Exercise

Add links to your articleRead Editing Wikipedia page 12 to see how to create links from your article to others, and from other articles to your own. Try to link to 3–5 articles, and link to your article from 2–3 other articles. 

  • Consider adding an image to your article. Wikipedia has strict rules about what media can be added, so make sure to take the 'Contributing Images and Media Files' training before you upload an image.

Polish your work

Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Content Expert at any time if you need further help!


Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work or add images and other media.

 

**Pay careful attention to the layout and content of the Editing Wikipedia document. It will be useful when you prepare your final assignment.**
Milestones

Do some deep breathing exercises.  Do a few extra reps at the gym.  Phone a friend. Have some chocolate.  Power pose.  Meditate.  Do whatever you need to do to prepare yourself.  Your article needs to be uploaded to the mainspace by Saturday next week at the very latest.  Remember you can continue to edit it.  You just need to get it up there!  Remember how this all started....Be Bold!

In class - Continue work on Final Project

See email from Lab leadership

Assignment - Add 5 and Edit 5

***Add five unique privacy, surveillance, or cybersecurity pages to the Privacy+ pages list for this semester on the lab web page.  Add a both the hyperlink and your name in brackets next to it. Edit every page you add to the list.  Possible Options:  Add two sentences.  Add a citation.  Fix punctuation.  Clarify a sentence or two.***
Don't forget to leave notes when you edit in Wikipedia (comment out your edit) so other Wikipedians know what you edited

Week 9

Course meetings
Monday, 9 November 2020   |   Tuesday, 10 November 2020   |   Wednesday, 11 November 2020   |   Thursday, 12 November 2020   |   Friday, 13 November 2020
Assignment - Final Article Development
  • 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 Content Expert at any time!
**Pay careful attention to the layout and content of the Editing Wikipedia document. It will be useful when you prepare your final assignment.**
Assignment - Upload your Article to the Mainspace

It may seem scary but that does not mean it isn't time!  It's time to put your article  in the mainspace.  

Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready to present what they have done to the head of the lab during your one-on-one meeting.

Assignment - Submit Final Project

See details in email from lab leadership

Assignment - Add 5 and Edit 5

***Add five unique privacy, surveillance, or cybersecurity pages to the Privacy+ pages list for this semester on the lab web page.  Add a both the hyperlink and your name in brackets next to it. Edit every page you add to the list.  Possible Options:  Add two sentences.  Add a citation.  Fix punctuation.  Clarify a sentence or two.***
Don't forget to leave notes when you edit in Wikipedia (comment out your edit) so other Wikipedians know what you edited

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