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Second year module on the BA (Hons) Writing and Publishing degree. Students will be using Wikipedia to: enhance their knowledge of decision making and editing in a dynamic and changing environment; conducting research into the writing and editing process, negotiating with others in a collaborative environment and using this knowledge to edit a live work; and learning effective written communication and appropriate formatting and referencing.
The module involves elements of formal teaching, group-led and independent study, weekly reading and preparation, and peer review; and a range of assessments, including the editing of Wikipedia pages, creation of Wikipedia articles and a portfolio project.
Timeline
Week 1: Introduction
- Overview of the course content and module guide
- Ice-breaker/getting to know you activity
- Paper-based copy-editing exercise
- Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course and key assignments
- Start the online student orientation. During this training, you will create an account, learn about the Dashboard, and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
Week 2: Wikipedia essentials
- Continue the online student orientation. During this training, you will create an account, make edits in a sandbox, and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
- Create a user page.
- Practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, leave a message for a classmate on their user talk page.
- Learn to make minor edits - spelling mistakes, grammar, adding links, tidying structure.
*Assessment Brief A will be distributed
Week 3: Evaluating articles and sources
- Continue the online student orientation. During this training, you learn about evaluating Wikipedia articles.
- Understand Wikipedia's article grading scheme.
- Learn about evaluating articles for readability, tone, bias, accuracy, reliability.
Week 4: Sources and Citations
- Continue the online student orientation. During this training, you will look at how to manage, source and cite sources in Wikipedia.
- Learn about Wikipedia's criteria for reliable references.
- Find articles that are missing citations.
- Research using Library resources to supply references for missing citations.
- Richard Swift from the Library will be delivering a workshop on exploring e-resources and using the Library for research.
Week 5: Plagiarism and Copyright
- Continue the online student orientation. During this training, you will learn about avoiding plagiarism in Wikipedia.
- Understand the difference between plagiarism and copyright infringement.
- Understand the importance of copyright compliance online
- Learn how to avoid plagiarism on Wikipedia.
- In preparation for the following week's class, between Weeks 5 and 6 you will be required to take images of landmarks in Derby to contribute to their Wikipedia pages. Buildings/landmarks can be chosen from the list, Category:Derby
Week 6: Using images and media files
- Continue the online student orientation. During this training, you will learn how to contribute image and media files to Wikipedia.
- Learn the importance of media files in accompanying articles
- Discover sources of copyright-free or open access images
- Learn to upload images to Wikimedia Commons
Week 7: Peer review
- Peer review each other's articles, make suggestions for improvement or alteration.
*Assessment A deadline is this week - 15 March at 5pm
Week 8: Guest speaker - Michael Whitby
*Assessment B brief will be distributed.
Week 9: Dealing with harassment
- Continue the online student orientation. During this training, you will learn about online etiquette and communication, and how to deal with harassment.
- Learn about online harassment and Wikipedia's ways to combat it
- Discover some communication best practices
- Learn about providing support and advice online
Week 10: TBC
Week 11: Portfolio work
- Learn to edit content you know - please bring 3-5 books of your choice to form the basis of this editing
- Opportunity to work on your portfolio
Week 12: Recap, tutorials and feedback
- Opportunity to work on your portfolio
- One-to-one tutorial availability
- Module recap and feedback
Article banners
To mark each article the subject of a student project, add the {{course assignment}} template at the top of the talk page for each article:
{{Course assignment | course = Outreach Dashboard/University of Derby/5PU506 Content Development (January 2019) | term = Spring 2019}}
That will result in the following banner (which lets other editors know that you're working on it):
 | This article was the subject of an educational assignment in Spring 2019. Further details are available on the course page. |
Also ensure you have a student editor template, {{student editor}} on your user page:
{{Student editor | course = Wikipedia:Outreach Dashboard/University of Derby/5PU506 Content Development (January 2019) | term = Spring 2019}}
That will result in the following banner (which lets other editors know you are a student):
| This user is a student editor in Wikipedia:Outreach Dashboard/University of Derby/5PU506 Content Development (January 2019). Student assignments should always be carried out using a course page set up by the instructor. It is usually best to develop assignments in your sandbox. After evaluation, the additions may go on to become a Wikipedia article or be published in an existing article. |
Summary
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| Institution | University of Derby |
| Term | Spring 2019 |
| Start | 29 January 2019 |
| End | 30 April 2019 |
| Student count | 10 |
| Status | Current |
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