Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Poverty Justice and Human Capabilities (Kimberly Hoang)/Final Contribution

Poverty, Justice, Human Capabilities Program Wikipedia Assignment

Final Contribution

Due: Thursday, November 29th 11:45 pm

The last step for your Wikipedia contribution is to make any final revisions to your article in response to feedback from classmates and Wikipedia users.

1. Begin by carefully considering the advice you received from your peer reviewers and any comments posted to your Project and Talk pages by other Wikipedia editors.

2. As discussed in class, please make sure you attribute claims to specific authors and studies in the text where appropriate rather than just supporting specific assertions with footnotes. See the Peer Review Rubric for details on how to correctly provide information from a source. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources

3. Make appropriate revisions to your article on Wikipedia and document your work as detailed below to submit.

Submission Instructions:

Submit the following documents to the relevant assignment tabs on OWL-Space.

a. A narrative reflection of what you have contributed to Wikipedia over the course of this semester, including a description of the changes you made, how you responded to feedback, and any other comments you would like to make on the process and on your experiences.

Label this document as follows:

<LastName>Narrative.doc

b. A screenshot of the relevant history of your Wikipedia article. On the “View History” tab on your article, take a screenshot of the article’s history from when you began editing until when you finished. Do not include the full history of the entry unless you created it (we just want the parts relevant to your contributions).

Label this document as follows:

<LastName>History.pdf

c. Your contribution:

There are three different ways that you can distinguish between the unchanged parts of the article written by others, new parts you have added, and the parts you have revised.

Option 1: (Do not use this option if this would lead to a large number of pages not written by you.) If you are working on a MAC, save the entire article as a .pdf. Save the article by going to File>print>Save as .pdf. Open the .pdf with the Apple application “Preview.” In Preview, you can annotate certain sections with the highlight feature. Highlight the sections that you have added or substantially rewritten in yellow.

Label this document as follows: <LastName>WikiFinalEntryHighlights.pdf

Option 2: This option works for both MAC and PC users. Take a screenshot of your final edited article and a screenshot of the original article before you began editing. You can find the original article by viewing a page’s history and then selecting the date and time on the last revision before you started.

If you know there is a lot of content in the article that you did not edit, take multiple screenshots of the sections that you have added or substantially rewritten, and in a Microsoft Word document, insert the original and final screenshots side by side (please label each one original or final) and describe the changes to that particular section. The description should very clearly indicate the changes you have made. Then save the entire Word document as a .pdf to submit on OWL-Space.

If you rewrote the entire article, you can submit two documents: one .pdf with your final article and one .pdf of the original article.

Label these documents as follows:

<LastName>WikiFinalEntry.pdf

<LastName>Original.pdf

Option 3: If you created an entirely new article and you are the only person who has edited your article, take a screenshot or make a .pdf of the entire article to submit. Please indicate on your summary document that this is the case so it is clear that all the work you’re submitting is your own.

Label this document as follows:

<LastName>WikiFinalEntry.pdf

If you are contributing to more than one article, please distinguish the documents separately by labeling them as follows: <LastName>WikiFinalEntry1.pdf; <LastName>WikiFinalEntry2.pdf, etc.

Please note that OWL-Space limits the number of attachments to 4, so if you have more than 4, please use the additional assignment space on OWL-Space titled “Final Contribution: Extra Attachments.”

How to take screenshots:

If the page you are viewing has unnecessary information, please use a selected screenshot instead of a full screenshot as this will make the image larger and, therefore, more legible.

The screenshots will act as proof of your edits in the event that another editor deletes or changes them. As before, be sure the font is large and legible.

To zoom-in on the screen: In Firefox and Google Chrome, you can zoom in by simply pressing “Control” or “Ctrl” and scrolling up. Then you can take your screenshot and the font will be larger.

On a MAC: For a selected screenshot, hold “command” and “shift” and then press 4. Use your cursor to then select the area to screenshot. For a full screenshot, hold “command” and “shift” and then press 3. The screenshots save to your desktop and can be renamed to .jpg or .pdf (they default as .png files).

On a PC: Please follow the steps provided at this link: http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Screenshot-in-Microsoft-Windows

Last updated on: November 14, 2012