Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Texas AM/Technical Editing (Spring 2022)

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Course name
Technical Editing
Institution
Texas AM
Instructor
Joshua DiCaglio
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Editing, Technical Communication
Course dates
2022-01-18 00:00:00 UTC – 2022-05-10 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
25


This is an applied course meant to prepare students to function as an editor in technical and professional venues. We will use Wikipedia to target certain less-tangible skills necessary for advanced editing: the ability to join a community of editors that already have standards in place, learn to read and improve writing within those conventions, and learn to facilitate good writing within this existing community. Rather than simply copyediting existing articles, creating new articles, or adding new content to existing articles, the students will focus on finding articles that have a good base of content but which need editorial intervention to help the larger community of potential editors continue to improve the articles. Students will focus primarily on issues of organization, appropriateness, and Wikipedia style, with the aim of significantly improving the existing content of an article. Students will be expected to work within the Wikipedia infrastructure, including engaging with current interested editors and leaving traces of their work to assist with future editing of the articles they worked on.

Student Assigned Reviewing
CognitiveBehavioralTherapyWizardTheIX Das Boot, Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
SICrawford Food blogging, Marching
Grenadine13 Iliad, Achilles and Patroclus, Patroclus
Samanthajones101 Rickets, Vitamin deficiency
Vojo2024 Her Kind (poem), Prayer in the New Testament, Prayer, meditation and contemplation in Christianity
JaneAshton99 Jake the Dog, Myth
YehLikeJazz? M*A*S*H (TV series), Resistor
Coilebethany Internal monologue, Intrapersonal communication
KDBrox African-American representation in Hollywood, Short story
Jazzie444 Manhwa, Human rights education
JalepenoPoppr Lightning McQueen, Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour
Fermentedtoes Friends with benefits relationships, Freudian slip
DjDias Photovoltaics, Photovoltaic effect, Photovoltaic system
Sageicedlatte Impostor syndrome, Zachary Karabell
Pennynm Play On (Carrie Underwood album), Economics of nuclear power plants
Nutellatoastt Traditional animation, Computer animation, Animation
Editingpersona New wave music, Fanfiction.net
Slysightly Clinical vampirism, Psyche (mythology)
.stughi. Toph Beifong, Distributed firewall
Exhausted Lemon Alistair (Dragon Age), Animatronics
Aed94 American Girl, The Hitcher (2007 film)
Abbie.Beckley Queer theory

Timeline

Week 4

Course meetings
Monday, 7 February 2022   |   Wednesday, 9 February 2022   |   Friday, 11 February 2022
In class - Note
schedule and activities are in Canvas

We will be using the WikiEdu dashboard to select our articles and track class edits. All smaller assignments are in Canvas. As much work as possible will be completed in Wikipedia itself.