Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of North Carolina, Greensboro/Latin American Lit 405 (Fall 2018)
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- Course name
- Latin American Lit 405
- Institution
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro
- Instructor
- Claudia Cabello
- Wikipedia Expert
- Elysia (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Latin American Literature and Culture
- Course dates
- 2018-09-04 00:00:00 UTC – 2018-12-07 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 25
Latin American Literature and Culture from the 19th through the 21st century. Students will be reading fiction and non-fiction as well as learning about the historical context of the works.
Students are bilingual and therefore can edit and translate articles in both Spanish and English.
Timeline
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 25 September 2018 | Thursday, 27 September 2018
- 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.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
- 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 5
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 2 October 2018 | Thursday, 4 October 2018
- In class - In class
- select your topic & groupwork
To be completed in class Oct 2nd
For this assignment, you'll have the option to work in groups. Each of you should select from the list of available articles based on your plans to work individually or in groups. You will be given a list of which article fits which project in class.
Homework:
Choose your topic / Find your sources
by the end of the day, please have your topic assigned to you on the Dashboard.
- Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia
Exercise
For this assignment, please evaluate your topic on both the Spanish and the English Wikipedia's and leave notes about your learnings in your Sandbox. Does the article exist in one or the other or both? What currently exists? What might I want to add with a translation or with original writing?
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 11 October 2018
- Assignment - Start drafting your contributions
This week you should start drafting your contributions. If you work includes translating content from the English or Spanish Wikipedia, please review the "Translating Articles" training here. As you draft your contributions and translations, think about your readers: what information can I write or translate that would be useful for them?
If you're working in a group, please take the "Drafting as a group" training & the "Translation" training.
If you're working individually, please take the "Drafting in the sandbox" training & the "Translation" training.
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
- In class - Discussion
- Milestones
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 16 October 2018 | Thursday, 18 October 2018
- Assignment - Peer review an article
- Milestones
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 23 October 2018 | Thursday, 25 October 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.
Please complete this before our in class lab day on Oct 25th.
- In class - In class
- time to work on your Wikipedia project
We will have time in class today to continue working on your Wikipedia projects.
- Continue to translate your work.
- Introduce citations from English-language texts that support the facts stated in your translated article. Adjust your translation if necessary.
- For each sentence you translate, make a note of the sources used in the original article. Are they good sources? Do they really say what the Wikipedia article describes?
If your draft is ready, try starting to move some if it live using the relevant training above.
If you're translating content, in your first edit to the article namespace, include a link of the source article (i.e., the article you translated) in the "edit summary" before hitting "save."
- Copy the code {{Translated page|es|Page Title}} to the bottom of the Wikipedia article, replacing es with the language code of the language you a translating from and replacing Page Title with the title of the source page.
Discussion
====== With a group, review the discussion prompt below and spend some time thinking broadly about Wikipedia.
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Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 30 October 2018 | Thursday, 1 November 2018
- Assignment - Move your work live
If you haven't moved your work live yet, now's the time! Review any relevant trainings above to help you through this process, and reach out to your content expert if needed via the Get Help button on the Dashboard.
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 6 November 2018 | Thursday, 8 November 2018
- 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 11
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 13 November 2018 | Thursday, 15 November 2018
- In class - In class
- continue improving your Wikipedia article
====== You'll have time today to work with your group or individually to continue improving your Wikipedia article. Spend some time revisiting 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.
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Discussion
With a group, spend some time discussing the sources you used, using the prompt below to guide you.
Thinking about sources and plagiarism
Exercise
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 20 November 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!
- Assignment - Reflective essay
Reflective essays are due at the beginning of class Nov 20th before any presentations begin.
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 27 November 2018 | Thursday, 29 November 2018
- Milestones
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.