Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Ontario Institute of Technology/CHEM 4041U Advanced Topics in Inorganic Chemistry 2016 (F16)

This course is separated into two sections, coordination chemistry theory and bioinorganic chemistry. Description for the bioinorganic section: Survey of metalloenzymes highlighting their biological occurrence and function, structure-function relationships, and current chemistry research with biomimetic complexes; also biological metal ion specificity (chaperoning) and introduction to specialized inorganic analysis techniques (esr, EXAFS, magnetochem etc) used to study metalloenzymes. Metalloenzyme examples including (as time permits): Photosystem II, biological iron transport and storage, haemoglobin, nitrogenase, cytochrome P450, high potential iron proteins (HPIP), vitamin B12, CO2 fixation in methanogens and cofactor F430, superoxide dismutase, CO dehydrogenase, blue copper proteins.

Introduction (Wikipedia Assignment)

It's the Wikipedia Year of Science, and our UOIT CHEM 4041 course will be an integral part of this year-long initiative to improve science content on Wikipedia!

Google searches for scientific information routinely return Wikipedia articles in the top five search results, and more and more scientists are recognizing the worthiness of Wikipedia content. As a chemist, I have continually been impressed with the accuracy, quality and range of Wikipedia scientific content, and now use it so much that I have recently made a donation out of appreciation. Every chemistry or physics article I have read so far has been reasonably or very well written and accurate, not only content for which I already have the relevant expertise to pass judgement, but also for content that is new to me which I was later able to verify, for example by reading the primary references listed in the Wikipedia article.

Although Wikipedia does not use the explicit expert peer-review process employed by reputable scientific journals, it does have a reasonably effective mechanism to ensure quality and accuracy due to the tireless efforts from the community of many thousands of volunteer editors that not only contribute content but also assess the quality of articles and discuss the best ways to improve them, and assist new editors. In addition, there is the Wiki Education Foundation that supports class assignments and assists instructors and new student editors.

The range of topics covered is impressive, making Wikipedia a preferred resource. While there are other high quality online chemistry information resources, they are either highly specialized or only have a relatively small number of topics/articles, because a small group of chemists at a particular institution can not contribute anywhere near as much content and range of topics as Wikipedia with its many thousands of editors contributing from all over the world. Furthermore, Wikipedia can be relied on to always be there for you, whereas numerous online chemistry information resources that I relied on in the past would at some point disappear off the internet as the staff maintaining the resource either moved on or lost funding that was supporting the resource.

Online video – History of Wikipedia

Learning Outcomes

Gain experience with writing a scientific article in the neutral encyclopedic style for a general (worldwide) audience, not just for one instructor who is an expert in the field. Your assignment will not just end up archived on your hard drive where no one will see it, instead it will live on as a valuable contribution to a high quality worldwide online encyclopedia read by millions of people.

Gain experience with interacting with other editors and experts regarding:

feedback on how to improve your content

reaching a consensus opinion on how to improve the content of an article

justifying your intended contributions with primary source references from peer-reviewed scientific journals

objective (and cordial) analysis of existing content from other editors

Gain an understanding of the fundamentals of contributing to Wikipedia, and how it involves a large community of editors and volunteers working together to ensure high quality articles and a broad range and depth of content. As future chemistry professionals, this experience may entice you to become a Wikipedia volunteer editor and help contribute quality content in the areas of your expertise.

"affidavids":

“With a traditional assignment, your only audience is often your professor, or at most your professor and your classmates. I really liked the fact that this assignment gave me an opportunity to write for a broader audience and make a valuable contribution to a resource that I often use myself.”
— Joseph Lapka, San Francisco State University

“Writing for Wikipedia has engaged my students like nothing else. They are some of the most pedagogically powerful assignments I’ve incorporated into my classes.”
— Adeline Koh, instructor, Stockton University

“Students do use Wikipedia, and they need to understand what it is and how to trace back to the [cited] sources. It is a valuable tool that is dismissed by too many people.” Faculty participant

Wikipedia Assignment (20% of Total Course Mark)

Outline (see timeline below for detailed instructions and resources)

Create a Wikipedia account and enroll in the CHEM 4041 Wikipedia assignment page
Complete the Wikipedia orientation and student training
Practice Editing, Formatting, referencing, diagrams, tables, talk pages,
Choose topics and subtopic(s) (see "Metalloenzyme subtopics" below) and the type of Wikipedia contributions you wish to make,

NOTE: both choices must be pre-approved by your instructor before beginning to work on it.

Contribute a minimum of 800 words (or "word equivalents, see next point) of new high quality content, supported by good quality literature references from reputable peer-reviewed scientific journals, to the Wikipedia article for your chosen subtopic (create a new Wikipedia article if one does not already exist for your topic).
you can also contribute references, media (figures and diagrams), tables etc. to existing content or edit/replace poorly written or inaccurate existing content, or any combination thereof; each of these works will be assessed a number of "word equivalents" to count towards the 800 word requirement, see the Marking Scheme section below.
The total contribution (any combination of original text, editing, references and/or diagrams) must be entered into the student’s user page sandbox which will be assessed by your instructor.
use the talk page of the article(s) to which you intend to contribute to identify and justify your intended edits to other Wikipedia editors, and (hopefully) reach a consensus of approval for the edits before making them to the live article.
The content must be moved from the sandbox to the live article, but only after your instructor has reviewed it and made recommendations, and you have completed any revisions required by your instructor.

Assistance from the Wiki Education Foundation Staff [1]

Ian, an on-staff content expert from the Wiki Education Foundation, will follow the students work throughout the term and provide them with feedback as they edit. He is signed up on our course page as Ian (Wiki Ed).

Marking Scheme

TOTAL MARK: /100

creation of Wikipedia account and user page (submitted to instructor) - [5 marks]
completion of the online training for students - [5 marks]
Learn and Practice Wikipedia Editing in your Sandbox - [10 marks]
Assessment of Contributions (text, references, diagrams): [60 marks Total]

• first 250 words text contribution [20 marks]
• second 250 words text contribution [20 marks]
• additional 400 words/word equivalents (text, references, diagrams, edits) [20 marks]
Marking Guide for text contributions:
• Topic/Subtopics (worth ~ 15% of total marks)
chosen subtopics are reasonably appropriate, and reasonably important, contributions for the chosen Wikipedia articles
• Quality of Writing (worth ~ 70% of total marks)
Sentence Structure and Grammar
 has been PROOFREAD!! Grammar and spelling are acceptable; no incomplete or run-on sentences
 sentence structure is reasonable, understandable and “reads well”, ie. does not leave reader struggling to understand what is being said.
written to Wikipedia standards and well enough to be worthy of the Wikipedia article:
 written at an appropriate level of detail, not too general or vague, not to specific and detailed on a small subtopics that are not so important to the article
 written in the neutral point of view with concise scientific language, and no subjective opinions or persuasion; does not refer to authors by name in the text (ie. unlike the scientific literature, avoid directly naming authors “Jones et al believe this mechanism to be most likely”, just give a subscript to the reference) except where the author is very well known and of great importance to the topic (e.g. “the theory of relativity was developed by Albert Einstein”)
 uses proper Wikipedia formatting and syntax; has heading(s) to identify subtopic(s) ; links to other Wikipedia articles
 chemistry specific terms, parameters, abbreviations and symbols are defined or explained (except when already defined in the existing Wikipedia article)
 follows Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines including the five pillars
• Referencing is Sufficient and Appropriate to support the content (worth ~ 15% of total marks)
pdf files of references must be submitted to your instructor (best to put them in your Google Drive)
note: references must have the filename format:
“name of metalloenzyme/metalloprotein” “one or two keywords indicating topic of article” “(student last name in brackets)” “abbreviated journal name and year of article”,
e.g. “Fe transport DMT1 (H_Smith) BiocCellBio1999”
note: marks will be deducted if references are not submitted to your instructor and/or do not have the above filename format
Marking Guide for contribution of references
• Referencing is Sufficient and Appropriate to support the content; references are from the chemical literature and well discuss what is being said in the Wikipedia article.
Marking Guide for contribution of diagrams
• Diagrams are “textbook quality”, have sufficient detail, no mistakes, and look professionally drawn; molecular structures do not have distorted “funny-looking” bond lengths or angles; items in the diagram have appropriate sizing (text is not too small or big, arrows and other graphics are sized appropriately for the diagram)

Contributing to live article; - [20 marks]

Completion of revisions recommended by instructor before contributing;
use of talk page to identify and justify your intended edits to other Wikipedia editors;

Word Equivalencies for Non-Text Contributions

• adding diagrams
 the word equivalency of each diagram or table will be decided by the instructor depending on the complexity and relevance of the diagram or table, students must therefore consult (email) with the instructor to determine the equivalency allowed for a diagram or table.
• adding references to existing content:
 adding one reference will be considered equivalent to 20 words of text content, ie. adding 10 references will count as equivalent to contributing 200 words of original text content
 pdf files of all references must be submitted to the instructor to verify their appropriateness; references that do not well support the existing text content will not be counted
• editing existing content:
 if more than 50% of a sentence is edited, then count all the words in the sentence
 if less than 50% of sentence is edited, then count only the number of words changed or added
 there must be a valid reason for each edit and it must be explained in the talk page

Assignment Topics – Guidelines and Instructor Suggestions

Various suitable topics and subtopics identified by your instructor are listed in the "Ass2 Wikipedia Contribution" file posted to BB

Student	Assigned	Reviewing
Bacongirl78
Jambels
MursalSadat	Superoxide dismutase mechanism, Carbonic anhydrase mechanism, Active site of Cu, Zn SOD, Types of nitrate reductases, Nitrate reductase catalytic mechanism
R dwyer1992
Aqua16
Nargas13	Multicopper oxidase, Drawing the 3 types of Cu centers in copper proteins, Carboxypeptidase mechanism, LADH mechanism, The different classes of Fe-S protein clusters
Fifteenfiftytwo
FathomLSky

Timeline

Week 2

Course meetings

Thursday, 15 September 2016

Wikipedia essentials (in class)

Overview of the Assignment
Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.

Handout (for interest's sake): [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_State_of_Wikipedia_by_JESS3.ogv History of Wikipedia
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Wikipedia:Wikipedians

Week 3

Course meetings

Monday, 19 September 2016 | Thursday, 22 September 2016

Assignment - Assignment Tasks - Setup and Training (10% of Total Mark)

Create a Wikipedia account and enroll in the CHEM 4041 assignment page (mark = 5%)
Complete the interactive online training for students. (mark = 5%)
Initialize your userpage and sandbox

note: the overall grading scheme is given below the timeline

Resources:
1. Create Account and Enrol
Students can both create their Wikipedia account (username and password) and enroll in the CHEM 4041 Wikipedia assignment page by clicking the link provided in the Ass2a file posted to BB.

Once enrolled, the instructor will be able to see:

whether you have completed the training for students
your sandbox
which articles and talk pages you have contributed to
how much and what you have contributed
what files you have uploaded (e.g. figures)
how many views your work has received
and other useful information about your work on Wikipedia.

2. Student Training
select the “Trainings” tab on the Dashboard to access guides, tutorials, help resources and other info: Training Resources[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_students/Creating_an_account
]
During this training, you will learn about:

Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines including the five pillars
"edit source" pages and wikimarkup
"edit" pages and the visual editor (relatively new and now the preferred editing method)
your userpage and sandbox
talk pages, history pages and watchlists

The training consists of units that students take as they proceed with the different stages of their Wikipedia assignment. Each unit covers important aspects of Wikipedia that will set students up for a successful Wikipedia experience, and the instructor can keep track of each student's progress. Be sure to check the dashboard regularly for upcoming training modules.

Wikipedia's Five Pillars:

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia
Wikipedia has a neutral point of view
Wikipedia is free content
Wikipedians should interact in a respectful and civil manner
Wikipedia does not have firm rules

3. Initialize Userpage and Sandbox

As of 2016, your userpage and sandbox will be automatically set up for you when you enrol on the course page, extra info is given below

FYI: how to start userpage and sandbox for a "regular" account that that is not part of a course assignment:

Log in to your account and it will say “to start a page called User:XXXX, type in the box below. When you are done, preview the page to check for errors and then save it.”

About User pages

about Sandboxes

the sandbox is your own page (ie. not a live article) where you can practice editing and enter your intended contributions, then when you are ready, your edits can be moved from your sandbox to the main (live) article page. Although other users can view and edit your sandbox, it is considered a serious violation of Wikipedia's policy that users must not edit other users sandboxes (editing someone else's sandbox can result in a suspension or permanent block on your account)

“To start a page called User:XXXX/sandbox, type in the box below. When you are done, preview the page to check for errors and then save it.”

how to make multiple sandboxes (ie. subpages on your user page)

about subpages to create a user subpage, see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages#User_pages_and_user_space user pages
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Week 4

Course meetings

Monday, 26 September 2016 | Thursday, 29 September 2016

Assignment - Assignment Tasks - Practice Editing (10% of Total Mark)

1. Practice the following in your sandbox (mark = 7%)
(see detailed instructions below)

Editing and formatting etc. with the Visual Editor
Practice citing internal and external references and creating a reflist
Practice uploading figures
Practice making a table
Practice entering a formula
Practice making a chemical information box ("ChemBox")

2. View and learn how to use: talk pages, history pages, watchlists (mark = 3%)
(see detailed instructions below)

Detailed Instructions and Resources:

Instructions
1. Practice the following formatting features in your sandbox
For the items below, choose a chemical compound for which there is no Wikipedia article or only a stub article that does not list the chemical and physical properties, check these sources:

look through the Sigma-Aldrich chemical database (or Fisher or VWR)
you may know of a literature article that reports the chemical properties of a compound
search for the chemical properties using SciFinder (which gives the CAS number) and/or the CAS number; (see course syllabus for instructions how to use Scifinder)
choose one of the following examples identified by your instructor:
1. Chromium(III) acetate (CRAC) tris(aquo)hexa-μ2-acetato-μ3-oxo-trichromium(III) chloride hexahydrate - see CHEM 3510 lab manual and references therein
2. Chromium(III) acetate hydroxide

for example N,N'-dimethyl-1,3-propanediamine is listed in the Sigma-Aldrich polyamines list and has only a stub Wikipedia article
Most of the well known common compounds do have Wikipedia articles, so best to check less common examples; be sure to search for them on Wikipedia until you find a compound that has no article or only a stub article that does not give the chemical properties asked for below.
note that the WikiProject Chemicals links to the project worklist which has a comprehensive list of Wikipedia chemical articles being worked on (and their status).

1.1. In your sandbox, use the Visual Editor (you can use wikimarkup if you really want to) to make:

the Heading: "Week3 Tasks - Info for {name of your compound}"
the subheading: "Properties of {name of your compound}"
a bullet list of the following properties: molecular formula ; molar mass ; m.p. ; b.p. ; solubility in water.

Note if the compound is a metal salt, e.g. most metal complexes, the m.p. and b.p. will likely be not available since salts usually do not melt or boil and instead just decompose on heating to high temperatures (> 250 dec C)

1.2. repeat the name of your chosen compound in bold and again in italics

1.3. give an internal Wikipedia link to any chemistry article of your choosing

1.4. give an external link to the Sigma-Aldrich catalogue entry for your above chosen compound, or to the literature article or CAS entry etc, whichever is the source you used for the chemical properties.
For example, the Sigma-Aldrich catalog entry for N,N'-dimethyl-1,3-diaminopropane.

1.5. Practice making citations
Google Search or use SciFinder (see course syllabus for instructions how to use Scifinder) for three different chemistry literature articles not listed in the Wikipedia article for any of the topics below. Give the title of each article and make a citation at the end of each title to the journal article. If your articles are directly relevant to the content of the article, then they can serve as part of your assignment contribution.

article(s) on the nitrogenase enzyme that are not listed in the Wikipedia nitrogenase article.
article(s) on Photosystem II that are not listed in the Wikipedia Photosystem II article

make a reflist with the heading "references" below the list of articles (use the visual editor "cite" and "insert/references list" buttons, but note that the wikimarkup syntax is in the wikimarkup quick reference "cheatsheet".

1.6. Practice Uploading Figures

Use ChemDraw to draw the chemical structure of your chosen compound above
use "save as" to save the ChemDraw file as a jpeg file (can also save as a pdf but might not be as good resolution)
upload the jpeg figure to the Wikimedia Commons
display the figure with a caption in your sandbox

1.7. Practice making a table
make a table, with a minimum two columns and three rows, listing any kind of chemical data of your choosing, suggestions are:

NMR or IR data (check the Aldrich catalog or the SDBS database for NMR spectra)
search for a compound on the NIST chemistry webBook and list chemical properties and/or spectroscopic data
the chemical properties for your chosen compound above

1.8. Practice entering a formula
enter any formula or calculation of your choosing that includes:

at least one term with a fraction (numerator and denominator)
at least one number with an exponent
at least one variable with a subscript

1.9. Practice making a chemical information box ("ChemBox")

make a chembox for your chosen chemical compound (above) for which there is no Wikipedia article and fill in what information in the chembox template that you have (name, IUPAC name, formula, molar mass, m.p., b.p. etc)

2.1. View and learn how to use talk pages,

2.2. View and learn how to use history pages

2.3. View and learn how to use watchlists

Resources:
(Wiki Ed) (Ian Ramjohn / ian wikiedu.org) Wikipedia Content Expert in the Sciences
Ian is our content expert from Wiki Ed, he will help students throughout the term.

the Basics of how to Contribute to Wikipedia

About Contributing to Wikipedia

About [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines

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Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual is a how-to guide that explains the process of contributing to the English Wikipedia, both for novice users and experienced editors. It was originally written in 2008 by John Broughton, but has since been expanded and updated by many other Wikipedia contributors.

Editing and Markup:
About Editing Wikipedia (a downloadable pdf file that is also posted to the BB Ass2 folder)

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet a quick reference on wikimarkup syntax

]

How to make a Table:
Advice from Ian (our mentor from Wiki Ed, see above):
if you are using the VisualEditor (which you should be), creating a table is actually as easy as clicking the Insert button and selecting Table.
If you want to learn how to do it "properly", using wikicode, you should check out Help:Table on Wikipedia. It probably tells you more than you want to know about table formatting, but it does give you an awful lot of control over what you want to do.

A convenient in-between option is to use a tool that lets you convert Excel into a wikicode table. Here's a good example http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/tab2wiki.php

how to make a formula:
Advice from Ian (our mentor from Wiki Ed, see above):
When it comes to mathematical notation in Wikipedia, you can find everything you'd ever want to know (and a lot more) at Help:Displaying a formula. A specific extension to the <math> tags that are specifically designed for chemistry were introduced this summer - see Help:Displaying a formula#Chemistry. There are still issues with that extension though, and for that reason some Chemistry editors have mixed feelings about whether to use it or not. I'd say use it if it works, but bear in mind that it will sometimes fail to display anything but an error message. So warn your students to double-check things after they save a page.

VisualEditor also has a decent tool for building formulae. I haven't played with it much, but it seems pretty powerful. You can access it by clicking the More button on the drop-down menu from Insert, as shown in the screen shot. This might be sufficient to your students needs.

How to Upload images and diagrams:

Introduction to Uploading Images

Uploading Images, includes the "Illustrating Wikipedia" Guide (a downloadable pdf file that is also posted to the BB Ass2 folder)

for further details on chemistry illustrations, see the “Editing Wikipedia articles on Chemistry (Wiki Ed)” handbook, you can download the pdf (it is also posted in the 4041 Ass2a folder and hardcopies are available from your instructor; and it is also posted in the Wikimedia Commons for download), see p. 3 where it says: “If you’d like to create and share images of chemical structures or reaction schemes, check out | shortcut WP:CSDG - for details on how to upload them (don’t upload freehand drawings).”

Tips for Wikipedia chem-art: no words, uniform font (sans serif), no "a" and "b", the two mechanisms should be separate figures to ensure versatility. Wikipedia would probably only show one mechanism.

How to make a ChemBox:
see the “Editing Wikipedia articles on Chemistry (Wiki Ed)” handbook, you can download the pdf (it is also posted in the 4041 Ass2a folder and hardcopies are available from your instructor; and it is also posted in the Wikimedia Commons for download): p. 3 gives the chembox template and the link to the Template:Chembox,

General info on Infoboxes: Wikipedia:infoboxes , Wikipedia:List of Infoboxes

Week 5

Course meetings

Monday, 3 October 2016 | Thursday, 6 October 2016

Assignment - Assignment Tasks (no marks allotted for this week)

Start looking for Topics and Subtopics
Complete the training modules below

Week 6

Course meetings

Thursday, 13 October 2016

Assignment - Assignment Tasks: (no marks allotted for this week)

Start Deciding on Topics and Subtopics and what types of contributions you will make
Assign the articles you will edit to your name on dashboard
Begin Searching the Literature and Reading References.
Obtain Instructor Approval

Choose one or more topics of interest to you and assess the Wikipedia articles
Various suitable topics and subtopics identified by your instructor are listed in the "Ass2 Wikipedia Contribution" file posted to BB
Perform a literature search for the most relevant literature articles from reputable peer-reviewed scientific journals on the topic. In addition to search engines such as Google Scholar you can use our UOIT licensed SciFinder Scholar (instructions in the Course Syllabus on BB). Remember the literature articles must be submitted to your instructor. Check the course textbook (BGSV-06) for literature references (if the topic is discussed in the course textbook).

References
· must be submitted to instructor (best to put in your Google Drive and share with instructor)
must have the filename format:

“name of metalloenzyme/metalloprotein” “one or two keywords indicating topic of article” “(student last name in brackets)” “abbreviated journal name and year of article”,

e.g. “Fe transport DMT1 (H_Smith) BiocCellBio1999”

· marks will be deducted if references are not submitted to your instructor and/or do not have the requested filename format
Be sure to look for the most recent articles also, to be sure the content of earlier articles is still considered accurate and relevant. Many bioinorganic topics involve very active areas of research where fundamental aspects such as the structure or mechanism are still not known or proven, such that new experiments and insights are being reported every year. For example, the exact structure of the CaMn4O5 cluster in photosystem II has only been determined as of 2011 (well after the current edition of the textbook BGSV-06) and the mechanism is not "settled" with several different proposed mechanisms in the recent literature, likewise the structure of the FeMoco (MoFe7S9C) cofactor in nitrogenase was not fully resolved until 2011 and currently the mechanism is still not known, even the initial binding site of the N2 substrate is not known.
decide on what subtopics you will contribute, ie. for example do not just decide to work on "hemoglobin", instead identify very specific subtopics that are missing or incomplete within the hemoglobin article such as "how Fe3+ high spin-low spin conversions trigger the conformational switching mechanism of hemoglobin" or "carbonate binding mechanism of hemoglobin" or "current methods of isolating hemoglobin"
decide what type(s) of contribution you will make, ie. whether it is to contribute new content, add citations, add media (figures and diagrams), edit existing material, evaluate article quality, or some combination thereof.
you must contribute 800 words or word equivalents (see week7 below for the word equivalencies)

Week 7

Course meetings

Monday, 17 October 2016 | Thursday, 20 October 2016

Assignment Tasks (no marks allotted for this week)

Continue Looking for Topics and Subtopics and Deciding exactly what contributions you will make

Week 8

Course meetings

Monday, 24 October 2016

Assignment - Assignment Tasks (5% penalty per day late up to 20% max)

Make final Decisions on what exact contributions you will make, and obtain instructor approval: (5% penalty per day late to max 20%)
- specify what subtopics you will contribute, do not just say "hemoglobin", instead say "how Fe3+ high spin-low spin conversions trigger the conformational switching mechanism of hemoglobin" or "carbonate binding mechanism of hemoglobin" or "method of isolating hemoglobin"
- specify what type(s) of contribution you will make, ie. whether it is to contribute new content, add citations, add media (figures and diagrams), edit existing material, evaluate article quality, or some combination thereof.
- submit to your instructor the primary literature articles that you will be using as sources for your contributions
Start writing/drawing your contributions and format them in your Sandbox

reminder: students must contribute a minimum of 800 words or "word equivalents" (see next point) of new high quality content, supported by good quality literature references from reputable peer-reviewed scientific journals, to the Wikipedia article for your chosen subtopic (create a new Wikipedia article if one does not already exist for your topic).

students can also contribute references, media (figures and diagrams), tables etc. to existing content or edit/replace poorly written or inaccurate existing content, or any combination thereof; each of these works will be assessed a number of "word equivalents" to count towards the 800 word requirement, see the Marking Scheme section below.

"word equivalents"
for editing / referencing / diagrams (ie. equivalency to original text contributions)

the following guidelines will be used to assess how many words, or "word equivalents" have been contributed

editing existing content:

if more than 50% of a sentence is edited, then count all the words in the sentence

if less than 50% of sentence is edited, then count only the number of new words added

there must be a valid reason for each edit and it must be explained in the talk page

adding references to existing content:

adding one reference will be considered equivalent to 20 words of text content, ie. adding 15 references will count as equivalent to contributing 300 words of original text content
pdf files of all references must be submitted to the instructor to verify their appropriateness

adding diagrams

the equivalency of each diagram / table will be decided by the instructor depending on the complexity and relevance of the diagram / table, students must therefore consult (email) with the instructor to determine the "word equivalency" allowed for a diagram or table.

Week 9

Course meetings

Monday, 31 October 2016 | Thursday, 3 November 2016

Assignment Tasks (no marks allotted for this week)

Continue writing/drawing your contributions and format them in your Sandbox; the requirement is 800 words / word equivalents

Week 10

Course meetings

Monday, 7 November 2016 | Thursday, 10 November 2016

Assignment - Instructor Marking and Revisions (60% of Total Mark; 5% penalty per day lat

Tasks:

Submit your Final contributions to your instructor for marking and revisions, ie. inform your instructor that your contributions are clearly identified in your sandbox and are ready for marking (5% penalty per day late to max 60%)
View the talk pages of the articles you intend to contribute to and inform other editors what contributions you wish to make in the near future, invite constructive comments and suggestions to improve your contributions. This is an important part of the process as it avoids unnecessarily taking editors by surprise.

Week 11

Course meetings

Monday, 14 November 2016 | Thursday, 17 November 2016

Assignment - Revise and Contribute to Live Article(s) (20% of Total Mark)

Tasks

Complete any and all revisions to your Wikipedia contributions (in your sandbox)
ask your instructor to approve the revisions
add your contributions to the live Wikipedia article

Resources:

Wiki Ed handout: Moving out of your sandbox (F16)

Week 12

Course meetings

Monday, 21 November 2016 | Thursday, 24 November 2016

Week 13

Course meetings

Monday, 28 November 2016 | Thursday, 1 December 2016