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Timeline

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Weeks 1 & 2: Introduction to the project

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Weeks 3 & 4: Selecting topics and additional explanations

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  • All students have selected a topic for their article

Weeks 5 & 6: Creating UserNames, becoming familiar with Wikipedia policies

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  • All students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.
  • Students have gone through the student course.

Week 7: Learning how to edit

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  • All students have performed non-polemical edits on other pages, including
- correcting spelling and grammatical improvements (minor)
- adding references or cites (minor)
- providing links between Wikipedia pages (minor)
- adding a new subparagraph to an existing article

Weeks 8, 9 & 10: Playing in your sandbox

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  • All students have started writing their Wikipedia article in their 'sandbox'
  • and made a reference list of relevant sources.

Weeks 11 & 12: Due date 19 April

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  • All students finalize the draft article (before 12 April)
  • Move it from your sandbox to the Wikipedia MainPage (i.e. post it online: this will take some time)
  • Improve your article according to the professor's suggestions.