Wikipedia:Writing Wikipedia Articles course/February 2014

This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference.
It was a course on how to write a Wikipedia article that last ran in 2017.


	Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond
	a free six week course

February–March 2014
We will run our course in conjunction with a graduate course at the University of Mississippi: Topics in Higher Education/Open Educational Resources and Practices (Edhe 670). Some students will be enrolled at the university, but the course is open to all. (Students may wish to join us for an additional open course immediately preceding this one, running February 5 to 19: Open Content Licensing for Educators. This is entirely optional!) Exact dates for the course will be announced soon!
How to enroll
After each step, be sure to come back to this page! Here's a shortcut: enwp.org/WP:WIKISOO/NOW Create a Wikipedia account Enroll in the course, using the token WIKISOO Fill in this survey Watch for an email from "Writing Wikipedia Articles," telling you how to join the first class session! (Or check back here the day before the class.)

Writing Wikipedia Articles is a free six-week course offered in collaboration with the School of Open, and conducted (mostly!) here on Wikipedia.

Please come back to this page after February 1 for information about the first class session! You may wish to use the Wikipedia shortcut for this page: WP:WIKISOO/NOW, or bookmark this page in your web browser.

The course will begin Tuesday, February 18. (7:00pm to 9:30pm Tuesdays, Central Standard time; this is Wednesday morning for Australia and Asia. Click here to find the time in a time zone near you.)

Writing Wikipedia Articles, week by week
Getting started Week 1: Wikipedia under the hood Week 2: Who am I to edit Wikipedia? Identity & collaboration Week 3: What is quality? Week 4: Build it bigger - Roundtable one Week 5: The deep dive - Roundtable two Week 6: The takeaway and student showcase

How it works (overview)

We have online class sessions once a week, for 2.5 hours. (Thursday evening in the Americas; Friday morning in Australia/Asia) These will start with a one hour lecture, including questions; then, after a short break, students will work on assignments. We will keep the session going, so that students can ask questions and have discussions during this time.

The page you are currently looking at is our course's "home page". Come here every time you are getting ready to do your classwork, or start a session; you should find links here to everything you need. In particular, note the links to each week's class page; these are the main course pages, and will help you keep track of where we are. You can always get here by typing WP:WIKISOO/NOW into the Wikipedia search bar.

The central place to interact with us, and with other students, is the course's "talk page" (which we share with WikiProject Open). You can always get there by typing the shortcut WT:OPEN into the Wikipedia search bar.

In the first class session, we will form teams of three to four students. Much of the coursework will be done with your team; typically teams coordinate by email, but you are free to use whatever medium works best for your team.

For those who use Twitter or other social media (optional, but very helpful!) we use the hashtag #WIKISOO (which stands for Wikipedia/School of Open), and we mainly tweet from the account @CommOER.

Students who successfully complete the course and the final project will earn the WIKISOO Burba Badge.