Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Washington/Advanced Human Reproductive Ecology (Fall)

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Course name
Advanced Human Reproductive Ecology
Institution
University of Washington
Instructor
Melanie Martin
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Human Reproductive Ecology
Course dates
2018-09-26 00:00:00 UTC – 2018-12-11 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
4


Human Reproductive Ecology is a well-established field of study within Biological Anthropology that examines how and why human reproductive patterns vary within and across populations. The field integrates topics and methods from human biology, evolutionary ecology, and demography.

The field has explicitly informed many field and laboratory studies since the 1990s. Human Reproductive Ecology is taught as a graduate or undergraduate course in many anthropology departments in the U.S., and has been the subject of several books and review articles by prominent anthropologists. As yet, there is no Wikipedia entry for the subject. The Graduate students in this course will create an entry briefly describing the history of the field, major works and developments in the field, and how it continues to inform anthropological research today.

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Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings
Wednesday, 26 September 2018   |   Friday, 28 September 2018
Assignment - 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, 1 October 2018   |   Wednesday, 3 October 2018   |   Friday, 5 October 2018
Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise

Evaluate an article

Assignment - Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Ecology

Science Communication

Week 3

Course meetings
Monday, 8 October 2018   |   Wednesday, 10 October 2018   |   Friday, 12 October 2018
Assignment - Add to an article

Exercise

Add a citation

Assignment - Exercise

Copyedit an article

Week 4

Course meetings
Monday, 15 October 2018   |   Wednesday, 17 October 2018   |   Friday, 19 October 2018
In class - Discussion

What's a content gap?

Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 5

Course meetings
Monday, 22 October 2018   |   Wednesday, 24 October 2018   |   Friday, 26 October 2018

Week 6

Course meetings
Monday, 29 October 2018   |   Wednesday, 31 October 2018   |   Friday, 2 November 2018

Week 7

Course meetings
Monday, 5 November 2018   |   Wednesday, 7 November 2018   |   Friday, 9 November 2018

Week 8

Course meetings
Wednesday, 14 November 2018   |   Friday, 16 November 2018
In class - Discussion

Thinking about Wikipedia

Assignment - Peer review two articles

Guiding framework

Milestones

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

Week 9

Course meetings
Monday, 19 November 2018   |   Wednesday, 21 November 2018
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.

Week 10

Course meetings
Monday, 26 November 2018   |   Wednesday, 28 November 2018   |   Friday, 30 November 2018
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

Week 11

Course meetings
Monday, 3 December 2018   |   Wednesday, 5 December 2018   |   Friday, 7 December 2018
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.

Assignment - 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 Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

Week 12

Course meetings
Monday, 10 December 2018
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!
In class - In-class presentation

Guiding questions

Milestones

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