Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Arizona/Linguistics in the Digital Age (Spring 2021)

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Course name
Linguistics in the Digital Age
Institution
University of Arizona
Instructor
Amy Fountain
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Linguistics
Course dates
2021-01-14 00:00:00 UTC – 2021-05-05 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
60


Language is increasingly being produced and interpreted by machines and this fact ripples through humans’ lives in an increasing variety of linguistic interactions. This course asks students to explore the applications of linguistic analysis to the problems posed and opportunities created by the creation and dissemination of language in digital world. Students will learn about corpus-based and machine-learning approaches, including machine translation, to the production and understanding of language, and the ways these may interact to magnify or diminish some problematic properties of public speech, and reveal or conceal its authorship, especially in the digital world. In collaboration with the WikiEducation initiative, students will actively engage in the critical review of Wikipedia resources to assist in the identification and remediation of problematic language.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Brenhunt
MakennaA Manifestation (popular psychology) Code-switching, Memorization
Briannahunt Gradient Salience Model
BAGerken Code-switching
RheaCarlson North Mesopotamian Arabic
Bkbrar Memorization
Joce21 Joy Harjo
Wingtip42
Cire2002 Emphasis (typography) Aphasia, Memorization
Clairedonaldson Aphasia
Dose117 edits Molecular Jig Games
Gschmidt2002
Victoria Osuji-Diala

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings
Monday, 18 January 2021   |   Wednesday, 20 January 2021
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 2

Course meetings
Monday, 25 January 2021   |   Wednesday, 27 January 2021
Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise

Evaluate an article


Week 3

Course meetings
Monday, 1 February 2021   |   Wednesday, 3 February 2021
Assignment - Choose possible topics

Exercise

Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 4

Course meetings
Monday, 8 February 2021   |   Wednesday, 10 February 2021
Assignment - Add to an article

Exercise

Add a citation


Week 5

Course meetings
Monday, 15 February 2021   |   Wednesday, 17 February 2021
Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9


Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Linguistics

Science Communication

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 6

Course meetings
Monday, 22 February 2021   |   Wednesday, 24 February 2021
Assignment - Peer review two articles

Guiding framework

In class - Discussion

Thinking about Wikipedia

Milestones

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

Week 7

Course meetings
Monday, 1 March 2021   |   Wednesday, 3 March 2021
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.


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


Assignment - Continue improving your article

Exercise

Add links to your article

Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

Week 8

Course meetings
Monday, 8 March 2021   |   Wednesday, 10 March 2021
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!
Milestones

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