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- Course name
- Research Process and Methodology - RPM SU 1 2020
- Institution
- New York University
- Instructor
- FULBERT
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Research
- Course dates
- 2020-05-26 00:00:00 UTC – 2020-07-11 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 15
The purpose of this Wikipedia Extra Credit assignment for our Research Process and Methodology course is for students to take what they learn through critical reading and analysis of the literature and share it in an open and accessible way with others interested in the same area of interest.
This arises from a belief that knowledge sharing, like karma, benefits both sharer and receiver. As the primary deliverable of the Research Process and Methodology course is the identification of a researchable problem, development of a research question, and a literature review on the topic, sharing our depth of knowledge with a wider community benefits our credibility as developing experts in our own areas of interest.
Assignments, all of which are extra credit, should be done by the end of each week, and they must be done in order. Weeks may not be skipped.
Late assignments will not be accepted after Week 3 (6/11).
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 26 May 2020 | Thursday, 28 May 2020
- In class - Why Wikipedia?
Purpose
The purpose of this 6-week Wikipedia Extra Credit assignment for our Research Process and Methodology course is for students to take what they learn through critical reading and analysis of the literature and share it in an open and accessible way with others interested in the same area of interest. The result will be students learn to be critical contributors to knowledge, and not only consumers of it.
This comes from a belief that knowledge sharing, like karma, benefits both sharer and receiver. As the primary deliverable of the Research Process and Methodology course is the identification of a researchable problem, generation of a research question, and development of a literature review, sharing our depth of knowledge with a wider community benefits our credibility as developing experts in our own areas of interest.
A Wikipedia Overview
Wikipedia is the largest collection of free, collaborative knowledge in human history. It is the 13th most trafficked site on the Internet (after Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Baidu), with the English Wikipedia containing over 6,000,000 articles with over 10 edits per second. It has over 120,000 active, volunteer editors. Together, they support the work of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.
The fundamental principles of Wikipedia may be summarized as Five Pillars:
1. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
2. Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view
3. Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute
4. Wikipedia's editors should treat each other with respect and civility
5. Wikipedia has no firm rules
Professor’s Educational Intent and Disclosure
I find Wikipedia valuable for my personal, professional, and academic work, and intend this extra credit as an opportunity for you to try some of this on for yourselves in a way that works for your own interests. Once you begin, it is hoped you may find this to be the easiest or most valuable extra credit you were ever offered.
While Wikipedia is primarily a comprehensive and interactive encyclopedia of human knowledge, it has many benefits that are embraced as foundational to this extra credit assignment:
- ** Sharing knowledge with a broad audience
- Expanding the awareness about a person or subject-area
- Connecting with collaborators from across the world
- Increasing the speed at which new knowledge is constructed
- Inspiring further research in the area
- Developing and improving ability to explain content for broad audiences
- Creating stronger content freely available to increase the understanding of the depth of a field
- Collaborating amongst classmates, colleagues, and cultures
- Navigating discussion and communication with a broad spectrum of people
- Critical thinking and decision-making skill development
- Media literacy in content creation and consumption
- Contributing what is learned in a course in a way that will last far beyond the close of the term
- In class - 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.
Please work through the following modules given in Week 1, in order. Please follow the same process for the following weeks.
- Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you (inside the Resources folder in the NYU Classes course site).
Some people use their real name on Wikipedia, yet others use a pseudonym for privacy reasons. All Wikipedia contributions and edits are tied to your username indefinitely, including edits and the editing reputation you will begin to develop. It is difficult to change a username after you begin using it, so consider this before creating one.
It is recommended you provide your email address when you create your account, and then respond to the confirmation email. This will allow you to get notifications and alerts of changes to your edits (if you choose), and will also allow Wikipedians to contact you if there is a need.
A confirmed email address is the only way to recover your account if you ever forget your password. Your email will not be publicly visible nor given to anybody else without your consent.
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.
- In class - Set your Wikipedia Preferences
Make these 3 tweaks in your Wikipedia account Preferences
- In Preferences > User profile > Email options, turn all the options on so you will get notifications.
- In Preferences > Notifications, select all of them via Web and Email as they happen.
- In Preferences > Editing > Editing Mode, select Show me both editor tabs.
These tweaks will allow you to receive my responses to you, along with any system or user notices.
- Milestones
This week, everyone should have created a Wikipedia account.
Create a new section (named with the week / assignment / and your Wikipedia name) and introduce yourself on the professor's FULBERT Talk page.
Each assignment should begin with its own new section at the bottom of the Talk page. Sign all your Talk page comments with " Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:19, 13 July 2020 (UTC) " (that will stamp your entries with your username and time/date).
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 2 June 2020 | Thursday, 4 June 2020
- Assignment - Assign yourself an article to edit
Finalize your topic / Find your sourcesBe sure to select and assign yourself the article before you begin copyediting (making a minor fix to the article).
- Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia
Exercise
Evaluate an articleThis assignment will help you understand what edits to look for and how to assess an article on Wikipedia. Include all criteria in your evaluation.
- Assignment - Copyedit an article
Copyedit an articleRemember to first assign yourself the article you will edit.
Make sure you also add an article summary of the basic edit you made (such as fixing punctuation, a typo, etc.).
- Milestones
Create a new section (named with the week / assignment / and your Wikipedia name) on the professor's FULBERT Talk page and include:
- summarize what you found in your article evaluation,
- a link to your article evaluation itself,
- a link to the Talk page where you offered a comment,
- a link to the diff (difference between the previous version and the current one) of the article you copyedited,
- and what you learned in the process.
Each assignment should begin with its own new section at the bottom of the Talk page. Sign all your Talk page comments with " Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:19, 13 July 2020 (UTC) " (that will stamp your entries with your username and time/date).
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 9 June 2020 | Thursday, 11 June 2020
- Assignment - Assign yourself an article to edit
Finalize your topic / Find your sourcesBe sure to select and assign yourself a different article from last week before you begin editing it or adding a citation to it. Beyond adding a citation alone, make sure to provide a sentence or two to express your contribution in context (which the citation will support) to demonstrate how it adds to the knowledge in the article.
Be sure to include an edit summary when you are finished.
- Assignment - Plagiarism
- Milestones
Create a new section (named with the week / assignment / and your Wikipedia name) on the professor's FULBERT Talk page and include:
- mention the citation you added
- link to the diff (difference between the previous version and the current one),
- and what you learned in the process.
Each assignment should begin with its own new section at the bottom of the Talk page. Sign all your Talk page comments with " Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:19, 13 July 2020 (UTC) " (that will stamp your entries with your username and time/date).
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 16 June 2020 | Thursday, 18 June 2020
- In class - Identify gaps in articles
When seeking to add to articles, it is helpful to consider what gaps exist in them based on what exists in the current literature on your topic.
- Guide(s) for working on articles in your topic area
Please take a look at whichever of these seem most related to your topic. They all contain useful guidance:
- Assignment - Add a citation to 2 more articles
Similiar to the assignment last week, select and assign yourself 2 more (different) articles and add different citations to each. Be sure to provide a sentence or two to express each of your contributions in context, and demonstrate how they add to the knowledge in the article.
- Milestones
Create a new section (named with the week / assignment / and your Wikipedia name) on the professor's FULBERT Talk page and include:
- summarize what you did in your article revisions,
- link to the diff (difference between the previous version and the current one) of what citation add you made,
- and what you learned in the process.
Each assignment should begin with its own new section at the bottom of the Talk page. Sign all your Talk page comments with " Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:19, 13 July 2020 (UTC) " (that will stamp your entries with your username and time/date).
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 23 June 2020 | Thursday, 25 June 2020
- Milestones
Create a new section (named with the week / assignment / and your Wikipedia name) on the professor's FULBERT Talk page and include:
- summarize what you did in your article revisions,
- link to the diff (difference between the previous version and the current one) of what citation add you made,
- and what you learned in the process.
- Assignment - Add citations to 2 more articles
Similiar to the assignment last week, select and assign yourself 2 more (different) articles and add a (citation to each. Be sure to provide a sentence or two to express your contribution in context and demonstrate how it adds to the knowledge in the article.
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 30 June 2020 | Thursday, 2 July 2020
- Assignment - OR insert an image
- Assignment - OR translate an article
- Assignment - EITHER Add citations to 2 more articles
Similiar to the assignment last week, select and assign yourself 1 more (different) articles and add a citation to it. Be sure to provide a sentence or two to express your contribution in context and demonstrate how it adds to the knowledge in the article.
- Milestones
Create a new section (named with the week / assignment / and your Wikipedia name) on the professor's FULBERT Talk page and include:
- summarize what you did,
- link to the diff (difference between the previous version and the current one) of what citation add you made,
- and what you learned in the process.
Each assignment should begin with its own new section at the bottom of the Talk page. Sign all your Talk page comments with " Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:19, 13 July 2020 (UTC) " (that will stamp your entries with your username and time/date).
- Milestones
Guiding questions** BONUS ** (one EXTRA point!)
Post a new section to the end of the professor's Talk page. Address the following:
- Respond to something in the Guiding questions training (above)
- What your experience was like (overall) with this Wikipedia course assignment.
- What you learned.
- Why / why not you intend to continue editing on Wikipedia.