Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Point Loma Nazarene University/HIS 475 Topics in Women's History (Fall 2015)

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Course name

HIS 475 Topics in Women's History

Institution

Point Loma Nazarene University

Instructor

Kamccoy1

Subject

women's history

Course dates

2015-10-30 – 2015-12-18

Approximate number of student editors

11

Student	Assigned	Reviewing
Kamccoy1		History_of_feminism
Ajderr3377	Doe_v._Bolton	Title_IX
BlueWolf11		Abigail_Hobbs_(Salem_Witch_Trials)
Dslate209	Hoyt_v._Florida	All-American_Girls_Professional_Baseball_League
TZelada		Portrayel_of_Women_in_Comics
Setenove222	Women's_Equity_Action_League	Delano_grape_strike
Bsamano1993		Judy_Goldsmith
Mahlberg333	Mary_Edwards_Walker	Women_in_medicine
Hannahc7940	Buchanan_v._Warley	Gender_Verification_in_Sports
Darshap		Lucretia_Mott
Yhernandez2011

Timeline

Week 1

In class - Wikipedia essentials

• Overview of the course
• Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
• Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.

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Handout: Editing Wikipedia

Assignment - Create your account and learn the basics

• Create an account and then complete the online training for students. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia. *You will receive a credit/ no credit grade for:

1. Creating a username and enrolling in our course on Wikipedia
2. Completing the student training on Wikipedia

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Resources: Online Training for Students

Week 2

Assignment - Copyedit an article

• Choose one article, identify ways in which you can improve and correct its language and grammar, and make the appropriate changes. (You do not need to alter the article's content.) *You will be graded on making an appropriate article choice and on how well you improve the language and grammar of the article.

Week 3

Assignment - Add to an article

• Add 6–8 sentences of new information, backed up with citations to at least two different, appropriate sources, to a Wikipedia article related to the class. The sentences may be in different parts of the article; each grouping of sentences requires at least one citation. These sentences must make a substantial contribution; no "fluff."
• You will be graded on selecting an appropriate article, adding substantive content, and using correct citations.