Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Minnesota/CSCI 5125 Collaborative and Social Computing (Spring semester)
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- Course name
- CSCI 5125 Collaborative and Social Computing
- Institution
- University of Minnesota
- Instructor
- Haiyi Zhu
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Collaborative and Social Computing
- Course dates
- 2017-01-18 00:00:00 UTC – 2017-05-01 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 26
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 8 March 2017
- In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia project
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
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 get started, please review the following handouts:
- Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 20 March 2017 | Wednesday, 22 March 2017
- In class - Practicing the basics
- Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.
- It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.
- When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate’s Talk page.
- Assignment - Critique an article
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
- Complete the "Evaluating Articles and Sources" training (linked below).
- Choose an article, and consider some questions (but don't feel limited to these):
- Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?
- Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
- Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
- Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
- Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
- Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
- Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
- Leave your evaluation on the article's Talk page. Be sure to sign your feedback with four tildes — Melissa (talk) 05:52, 12 May 2017 (UTC).
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 27 March 2017 | Wednesday, 29 March 2017
- Assignment - Add to an article
The goal of the assignment is to add reliable content to the assigned article.
- Complete the "Sources and Citations" training module.
- Fix the existing citation problems on the assigned article, e.g, fixing the links that do not work and finding reliable sources for statements with "Citation needed" tags. Note that evaluate whether the statement in question is true! An uncited statement could just be lacking a reference or it could be inaccurate or misleading. Reliable sources on the subject will help you choose whether to add it or correct the statement.
- Each student needs to add at least 5 new sentences to the assigned article, and cite the new content to reliable sources, as you learned in the online training.
Optional fun activity - Citation Hunt
- The Citation Hunt tool shows unreferenced statements from articles. Again, evaluate whether the statement in question is true first!
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 3 April 2017