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Course name
Imagining Justice
Institution
Eckerd College
Instructor
Amanda Hagood
Wikipedia Expert
Shalor (Wiki Ed)
Subject
General Education
Course dates
2020-01-29 00:00:00 UTC – 2020-05-09 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
12


Course examines concepts of justice and their relevance for a number of central issues facing society today, including: gender; race; economic justice; environment; war and peace; quality of personal relationships; and the individual benefit of acting justly.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Chrissy Jackson
Kmirani
CQuain
Jbpoinde
Wmcouche St. Petersburg, Florida, Eminent domain in the United States
Alinafernando
HannahMClarke
Rwdeane
Ksdeuser20
Jack Bisset

Timeline

Week 2

Course meetings
Thursday, 6 February 2020
Assignment - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment

Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:


Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 3

Course meetings
Tuesday, 11 February 2020   |   Thursday, 13 February 2020
Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise

Evaluate an article


Week 4

Course meetings
Tuesday, 18 February 2020   |   Thursday, 20 February 2020
In class - Discussion

What's a content gap?

Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Biographies

History

Week 5

Course meetings
Tuesday, 25 February 2020   |   Thursday, 27 February 2020
Assignment - Add to an article

Exercise

Add a citation


Assignment - Exercise

Copyedit an article

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 6

Course meetings
Tuesday, 3 March 2020   |   Thursday, 5 March 2020
Assignment - Continue gathering sources

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Week 7

Course meetings
Tuesday, 10 March 2020   |   Thursday, 12 March 2020
In class - Let's plan our first draft

Thinking about Wikipedia

Week 8

Course meetings
Tuesday, 17 March 2020   |   Thursday, 19 March 2020

Week 9

Course meetings
Tuesday, 24 March 2020   |   Thursday, 26 March 2020

Week 10

Course meetings
Tuesday, 31 March 2020
Assignment - First Article Draft Due

Week 11

Course meetings
Tuesday, 7 April 2020   |   Thursday, 9 April 2020
Assignment - Peer review our article

Guiding framework

Assignment - Respond to your peer review

You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:

  • Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
  • Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
Milestones

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Week 12

Course meetings
Tuesday, 14 April 2020   |   Thursday, 16 April 2020
Assignment - Continue improving your article

Exercise

Add links to your article

Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.


Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 13

Course meetings
Tuesday, 21 April 2020   |   Thursday, 23 April 2020

Week 14

Course meetings
Tuesday, 28 April 2020   |   Thursday, 30 April 2020
Assignment - Submit final edits on article

It's the final week to develop your article.

  • Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
  • Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Week 15

Course meetings
Tuesday, 5 May 2020   |   Thursday, 7 May 2020
Assignment - Article Presentation
Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.