Wikipedia:Writing Wikipedia Articles course/Round 1/Week 1
 | This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference.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. |
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Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond | 
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| a free six week course |
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.
a free course offered through Peer to Peer University's School of Open.
Week 1 Homework
Are you ready? Of course you are!
Do:
- Complete this brief survey providing basic info about yourself
- Create a Wikipedia user account • Instructional video • Why create an account?
- Create a basic Wikipedia user page • Instructional video • About user pages
- Introduce yourself on the course roster - a few sentences will suffice! In addition to a general introduction, please answer the following questions:
- What are you hoping to get out of this course?
- Have you ever edited an article on Wikipedia (or another wiki)?
- Edit one or two articles anywhere on Wikipedia: make a sentence more clear, fix a typo, etc. You may want to use your sandbox. • Instructional video
Read:
- The following chapters in How Wikipedia Works (PDF) (2008) (you may have read one and two already):
- Chap. 1. What's in Wikipedia?
- Chap. 2. The World Gets a Free Encyclopedia
- Chap. 4: Understanding and Evaluating an Article
- Chap. 6: Good Writing and Research
- Mahzarin Banaji (December 2010), Wikipedia is the Encyclopedia that Anybody Can Edit. But Have You? Observer Vol.23, No.10.
Watch:
- If you'd like to review the "view history" tab (covered in the Week 1 webinar), see this instructional video.
Week 1 Extra Credit
Ready to dig a little deeper? Take on one or more of these:
Do:
- Read the Open Educational Resources article, or another article on the Communicate OER project Content page. Consider how you might improve the article.
- If you see simple fixes you'd like to make, edit the article.
- Comment on an OER-related talk page (see the Communicate OER Content page for ideas)
- Review one of these articles on the relevant talk page - i.e. is it relevant/thorough? What would you like to see changed, added or deleted? (Hint: the "talk" tab is located just to the right of the "article" page at top left for every article.
All done?
- Return to the course overview here on Wikipedia.
- Return to the main P2PU School of Open course home page
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Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond (WIKISOO) |
| Past courses: March • May • August 2013 February 2014 • February 2017 |