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Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Poverty Justice and Human Capabilities (Kimberly Hoang)/Revised contribution & GA

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Poverty, Justice, Human Capabilities Program Wikipedia Assignment

Revised Contribution Due: Thursday, November 15th 5:00 pm


The next step for your Wikipedia contribution is to revise your peer workshop contribution in response to classmates and Wikipedia user feedback. At this stage, you may also consider nominating your article for Good Article Status: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles ). Good Articles are articles that meet a high quality standard and have been approved by members of the Wikipedia community. If you choose this route, you will self-nominate your article for Good Article review and a Wikipedia editor may eventually provide your article with a review and feedback. The independent Wikipedia review process may take weeks or months and therefore achieving Good Article status is not required for the course.

Please note that if you opt to seek Good Article status you must either remove the nomination at the end of the semester if your article is unreviewed or commit to following up on the review after the end of the semester. (Not responding to reviews provided by Wikipedia editors to Good Article review nominations is disrespectful of the time the editors put into their reviews and suggestions.)

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

2. Revise your contribution according to the advice you receive.

3. If you choose to nominate your article for Good Article status, peruse the Good Article Criteria found here: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_criteria ). Then go to the Good Article Nominations page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations) and follow the on-screen instructions for “How to Nominate an Article.” Once your nomination is complete, take a screenshot of your talk page with your good article nomination banner. Save this as <LastName> GoodArticleNomination.pdf. Your efforts in nominating your article will be taken into account in your final project grade.

4. Since others can alter the Wikipedia main namespace, you will need to document your contributions as they are made. Please do this by taking regular screenshots of your work.

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

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.

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

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

a. A descriptive summary of the changes/improvements you have made to the files submitted for the workshop describing how you have responded to feedback. Label this document as follows: <LastName>RevisedEntrySummary.doc

b. An outline with track changes distinguishing between unchanged parts of the article written by others, new parts you have added, and the parts you have revised. Label this document as follows: <LastName>RevisedEntryOutline.pdf

c. Your revised contributions

There are two 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: 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.

Option 2: This option works for both MAC and PC users. Take multiple screenshots of the sections that you have added or substantially rewritten. In a Microsoft Word document, insert these screenshots 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 are contributing to more than one article, please distinguish the documents separately by labeling them as follows:

<LastName>RevisedEntry1.pdf; <LastName>RevisedEntry2.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 “Revised Contribution: Extra Attachments.”
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