Wikipedia:Writing Wikipedia Articles course/Round 1/Week 1

This page details homework assignments for Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond,
a free course offered through Peer to Peer University's School of Open.

Week 1 Homework

Are you ready? Of course you are!

Do:

Create a Wikipedia user account
Create a basic user page
Complete a brief survey [link] providing course organizers basic info about yourself and your goals in taking this course
Edit one or two articles: make a sentence more clear, fix a typo, etc.

=Read:

Unless you have already, read the first two chapters of How Wikipedia Works PDF (2008)

   1. What’s in Wikipedia?
   2. The World Gets a Free Encyclopedia

- Mahzarin Banaji (December 2010) Wikipedia is the Encyclopedia that Anybody Can Edit. But Have You? Observer Vol.23, No.10.

Read about the Five Pillars (core policies) of Wikipedia
Read about Wikipedia editing policy
Read about Wikipedia conflict of interest

Week 1 Extra Credit

Ready to dig a little deeper? Do one or more of the following:

Read the Communicate OER Content page and/or Open Educational Resources article
Comment on an OER-related talk page (see the Communicate OER Content page for ideas)
Review your chosen article on the relevant talk page - i.e. is it relevant/thorough? What would you like to change, add or delete? (Hint: the "talk" tab is located just to the right of the "article" page at top left for every article.

All done?

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