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- Course name
- Research Process and Methodology - RPM FA 2020 - MASY1-GC 1260 200 Thu
- Institution
- New York University
- Instructor
- FULBERT
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Research Process and Methodology
- Course dates
- 2020-09-06 00:00:00 UTC – 2020-12-06 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 15
The purpose of this Wikipedia Extra Credit assignment for our Research Process and Methodology course is for students to take what they learn through critical reading and analysis of the literature and share it in an open and accessible way with others interested in the same area of interest.
This arises from a belief that knowledge sharing, like karma, benefits both sharer and receiver. As the primary deliverable of the Research Process and Methodology course is the identification of a researchable problem, development of a research question, and a literature review on the topic, sharing our depth of knowledge with a wider community benefits our credibility as developing experts in our own areas of interest.
Assignments, all of which are extra credit, should be done by the end of each week (end of the day on Sunday), and they must be done in order. Weekly assignments may not be skipped, as they continue to build upon one another.
You may begin the extra credit at any time, but late assignments must be current by the end of Week 5 (Sunday, October 11). If you have not started and caught up through week 5, you will not be permitted any additional extra credit for this assignment.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 10 September 2020
- In class - Why Learn to Edit Wikipedia?
Purpose
The purpose of this 6-week Wikipedia Extra Credit assignment for our Research Process and Methodology course is for students to take what they learn through critical reading and analysis of the literature and share it in an open and accessible way with others interested in the same area of interest. The result will be students learn to be critical contributors to knowledge, and not only consumers of it.
This comes from a belief that knowledge sharing, like karma, benefits both sharer and receiver. As the primary deliverable of the Research Process and Methodology course is the identification of a researchable problem, generation of a research question, and development of a literature review, sharing our depth of knowledge with a wider community benefits our credibility as developing experts in our own areas of interest.
A Wikipedia Overview
Wikipedia is the largest collection of free, collaborative knowledge in human history. It is the 13th most trafficked site on the Internet (after Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Baidu), with the English Wikipedia containing over 6,000,000 articles with over 10 edits per second. It has over 120,000 active, volunteer editors. Together, they support the work of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.
The fundamental principles of Wikipedia may be summarized as Five Pillars:
1. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
2. Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view
3. Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute
4. Wikipedia's editors should treat each other with respect and civility
5. Wikipedia has no firm rules
Professor’s Educational Intent and Disclosure
I find Wikipedia valuable for my personal, professional, and academic work, and intend this extra credit as an opportunity for you to try some of this on for yourselves in a way that works for your own interests. Once you begin, it is hoped you may find this to be the easiest or most valuable extra credit you were ever offered.
While Wikipedia is primarily a comprehensive and interactive encyclopedia of human knowledge, it has many benefits that are embraced as foundational to this extra credit assignment:
- ** Sharing knowledge with a broad audience
- Expanding the awareness about a person or subject-area
- Connecting with collaborators from across the world
- Increasing the speed at which new knowledge is constructed
- Inspiring further research in the area
- Developing and improving ability to explain content for broad audiences
- Creating stronger content freely available to increase the understanding of the depth of a field
- Collaborating amongst classmates, colleagues, and cultures
- Navigating discussion and communication with a broad spectrum of people
- Critical thinking and decision-making skill development
- Media literacy in content creation and consumption
- Contributing what is learned in a course in a way that will last far beyond the close of the term
- 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.
Please work through the following modules given in Week 1, in order. Please follow the same process for the following weeks.
Assignments, all of which are extra credit, should be done by the end of each week (end of the day on Sunday), and they must be done in order. Weekly assignments may not be skipped, as they continue to build upon one another.
You may begin the extra credit at any time, but late assignments must be current by the end of Week 5 (Sunday, October 11). If you have not started and caught up through week 5, you will not be permitted any additional extra credit for this assignment.
- Assignment - Create a Wikipedia Account
Create an account and join this course page. You MUST use the enrollment link from within NYU Classes.
Some people use their real name on Wikipedia, yet others use a pseudonym for privacy reasons. All Wikipedia contributions and edits are tied to your username indefinitely, including edits and the editing reputation you will begin to develop. It is difficult to change a username after you begin using it, so consider this before creating one.
It is recommended you provide your email address when you create your account, and then respond to the confirmation email. This will allow you to get notifications and alerts of changes to your edits (if you choose), and will also allow Wikipedians to contact you if there is a need.
A confirmed email address is the only way to recover your account if you ever forget your password. Your email will not be publicly visible nor given to anybody else without your consent.
- Assignment - Set Your Wikipedia Preferences
Make these 3 tweaks in your Wikipedia account Preferences
- In Preferences > User profile > Email options, turn all the options on so you will get notifications.
- In Preferences > Notifications, select all of them via Web and Email as they happen.
- In Preferences > Editing > Editing Mode, select Show me both editor tabs.
These tweaks will allow you to receive my responses to you, along with any system or user notices.
- Milestones
This week, everyone should have created a Wikipedia account.
Create a new section (named with the week / assignment / and your Wikipedia name) and introduce yourself on the professor's FULBERT Talk page.
Each assignment should begin with its own new section at the bottom of the Talk page. Sign all your Talk page comments with " Haomimimi (talk) 15:15, 30 November 2020 (UTC) " (that will stamp your entries with your username and time/date).
I will always respond to your posts on my Talk page, and after reviewing your progress, will either tell you that you are current (and thus get the extra credit point) or will tell you what to fix (and ask you to fix it and reply to my comment), after which you will then be complete.
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 17 September 2020
- Assignment - How to Evaluate a Wikipedia Article
Complete these two trainings.
- Assignment - Assign Yourself an Article to Evaluate
Be sure to select and assign yourself the article before you begin copyediting (making a minor fix to the article).
- Assignment - Evaluate an Article
Exercise
Evaluate an articleThis assignment will help you understand what edits to look for and how to assess an article on Wikipedia. Include all criteria in your evaluation.
- Milestones
Create a new section (named with the week / assignment / and your Wikipedia name) on the professor's FULBERT Talk page and include:
- a summary of what you did and found in your article evaluation,
- a link to your article evaluation itself,
- a link to the diff (difference between the previous version and the current one) on the Talk page where you offered a comment,
- a sentence or two about what you learned in the process.
Each assignment should begin with its own new section at the bottom of the Talk page. Sign all your Talk page comments with " Haomimimi (talk) 15:15, 30 November 2020 (UTC) " (that will stamp your entries with your username and time/date).
I will always respond to your posts on my Talk page, and after reviewing your progress, will either tell you that you are current (and thus get the extra credit point) or will tell you what to fix (and ask you to fix it and reply to my comment), after which you will then be complete.
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 24 September 2020
- Assignment - Assign yourself an article to edit
Finalize your topic / Find your sourcesBe sure to select and assign yourself a different article from last week before you begin editing it or adding a citation to it. Beyond adding a citation alone, make sure to provide a sentence or two to express your contribution in context (which the citation will support) to demonstrate how it adds to the knowledge in the article.
Be sure to include an edit summary when you are finished.
- Assignment - Copyedit an Article
Copyedit an articleRemember to first assign yourself the article you will edit.
Make sure you also add an article summary of the basic edit you made (such as fixing punctuation, a typo, etc.).
- Milestones
Create a new section (named with the week / assignment / and your Wikipedia name) on the professor's FULBERT Talk page and include:
- a mention the the article you copyedited
- a link to the diff (difference between the previous version and the current one),
- a sentence or two about what you learned in the process.
Each assignment should begin with its own new section at the bottom of the Talk page. Sign all your Talk page comments with " Haomimimi (talk) 15:15, 30 November 2020 (UTC) " (that will stamp your entries with your username and time/date).
I will always respond to your posts on my Talk page, and after reviewing your progress, will either tell you that you are current (and thus get the extra credit point) or will tell you what to fix (and ask you to fix it and reply to my comment), after which you will then be complete.
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 1 October 2020
- Assignment - Identify gaps in articles
When seeking to add to articles, it is helpful to consider what gaps exist within them based on what the current literature states on your topic.
- Assignment - Plagiarism Training
Thinking about sources and plagiarismComplete this training on plagiarism.
- Assignment - Add a Citation to One Article
Exercise
Add a citationAssign yourself an article to edit in the Course Dashboard (above) before you add your citation.
- Milestones
Create a new section (named with the week / assignment / and your Wikipedia name) on the professor's FULBERT Talk page and include:
- a summary of the article citation you added
- a link to the diff (difference between the previous version and the current one) of what citation you added,
- a sentence or two about what you learned in the process.
Each assignment should begin with its own new section at the bottom of the Talk page. Sign all your Talk page comments with " Haomimimi (talk) 15:15, 30 November 2020 (UTC) " (that will stamp your entries with your username and time/date).
I will always respond to your posts on my Talk page, and after reviewing your progress, will either tell you that you are current (and thus get the extra credit point) or will tell you what to fix (and ask you to fix it and reply to my comment), after which you will then be complete.
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 8 October 2020
- In class - Weeks 1-5 Due by 10/11
As a reminder, you may begin the extra credit at any time, but late assignments must be current by the end of Week 5 (Sunday, October 11).
If you have not started and caught up through week 5, you will not be permitted any additional extra credit for this assignment.
- Guide(s) for Working on Articles in Your Topic Area
Please take a look at whichever of these seem most related to your areas of interest. They all contain useful guidance on finding sources and editing articles on those topics:
- Assignment - Add a Citation and Contribute to One Article
Similar to the assignment last week, select and assign yourself 1 more (different) article, and add a citation to it.
This time, also include a sentence or two to express your contribution in context and demonstrate how it adds to the knowledge in the article. Be sure to check your grammar and spelling first!
- Milestones
Create a new section (named with the week / assignment / and your Wikipedia name) on the professor's FULBERT Talk page and include:
- a summary of the article citation you added
- a link to the diff (difference between the previous version and the current one) of what citation you added,
- a sentence or two about what you learned in the process.
Each assignment should begin with its own new section at the bottom of the Talk page. Sign all your Talk page comments with " Haomimimi (talk) 15:15, 30 November 2020 (UTC) " (that will stamp your entries with your username and time/date).
I will always respond to your posts on my Talk page, and after reviewing your progress, will either tell you that you are current (and thus get the extra credit point) or will tell you what to fix (and ask you to fix it and reply to my comment), after which you will then be complete.
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 15 October 2020
- Assignment - How to Find Another Article
Complete this training on how to locate more articles to edit.
- Assignment - Add a Citation and Contribute to One More Article
Similar to the assignment last week, select and assign yourself 1 more (different) article, and add a citation to it. Be sure to always include a sentence or two to express your contribution in context and demonstrate how it adds to the knowledge in the article. Be sure to check your grammar and spelling first!
- In class - Share What You Did and What You Learned
Create a new section (named with the week / assignment / and your Wikipedia name) on the professor's FULBERT Talk page and include:
- a summary of the article citation you added
- a link to the diff (difference between the previous version and the current one) of what citation you added,
- a sentence or two about what you learned in the process.
Each assignment should begin with its own new section at the bottom of the Talk page. Sign all your Talk page comments with " Haomimimi (talk) 15:15, 30 November 2020 (UTC) " (that will stamp your entries with your username and time/date).
I will always respond to your posts on my Talk page, and after reviewing your progress, will either tell you that you are current (and thus get the extra credit point) or will tell you what to fix (and ask you to fix it and reply to my comment), after which you will then be complete.
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 22 October 2020
- Assignment - Contribute to One More Article
Assign yourself one more (different) article and add a citation to it. Include a sentence or two to express your contribution in context and demonstrate how it adds to the knowledge in the article. Be sure to check your grammar and spelling first!
- In class - Share What You Did and What You Learned
Create a new section (named with the week / assignment / and your Wikipedia name) on the professor's FULBERT Talk page and include:
- a summary of the article citation you added
- a link to the diff (difference between the previous version and the current one) of what citation you added,
- a sentence or two about what you learned in the process.
Each assignment should begin with its own new section at the bottom of the Talk page. Sign all your Talk page comments with " Haomimimi (talk) 15:15, 30 November 2020 (UTC) " (that will stamp your entries with your username and time/date).
I will always respond to your posts on my Talk page, and after reviewing your progress, will either tell you that you are current (and thus get the extra credit point) or will tell you what to fix (and ask you to fix it and reply to my comment), after which you will then be complete.
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 29 October 2020
- Assignment - Add Citations to 2 Articles
Similiar to the assignment last week, you will now select and assign yourself 2 more (different) articles and add citations to each. Be sure to provide a sentence or two to express each of your contributions in context, and demonstrate how they add to the knowledge in the article.
- In class - Share What You Did and What You Learned
Create a new section (named with the week / assignment / and your Wikipedia name) on the professor's FULBERT Talk page and include:
- a summary of the article citations you added
- links to the diffs (difference between the previous version and the current one) of what citation you added,
- a sentence or two about what you learned in the process.
Each assignment should begin with its own new section at the bottom of the Talk page. Sign all your Talk page comments with " Haomimimi (talk) 15:15, 30 November 2020 (UTC) " (that will stamp your entries with your username and time/date).
I will always respond to your posts on my Talk page, and after reviewing your progress, will either tell you that you are current (and thus get the extra credit point) or will tell you what to fix (and ask you to fix it and reply to my comment), after which you will then be complete.
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 5 November 2020
- Assignment - Add Citations to 2 More Articles
Similar to last week, you will now select and assign yourself 2 more (different) articles and add citations to each. Be sure to provide a sentence or two to express each of your contributions in context, and demonstrate how they add to the knowledge in the article.
- Milestones
Create a new section (named with the week / assignment / and your Wikipedia name) on the professor's FULBERT Talk page and include:
- summarize what you did,
- link to the diff (difference between the previous version and the current one) of what citation add you made,
- and what you learned in the process.
Each assignment should begin with its own new section at the bottom of the Talk page. Sign all your Talk page comments with " Haomimimi (talk) 15:15, 30 November 2020 (UTC) " (that will stamp your entries with your username and time/date).
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 12 November 2020
- Assignment - EITHER Add Citations to 2 More Articles
Similar to last week, you will now select and assign yourself 2 more (different) articles and add citations to each. Be sure to provide a sentence or two to express each of your contributions in context, and demonstrate how they add to the knowledge in the article.
- Assignment - OR Insert an Image
Make sure you do not grab an image online or from anyplace else that you do not have the copyright to use. Either use the CC Search described in the training or upload your own image (also as described in the training). Be sure to assign yourself the article in which you are adding an image to the Dashboard!
- In class - Share What You Did and What You Learned
Create a new section (named with the week / assignment / and your Wikipedia name) on the professor's FULBERT Talk page and include:
- summarize what you did,
- link to the diff (difference between the previous version and the current one) of what citation add you made OR what image you added,
- and what you learned in the process.
Each assignment should begin with its own new section at the bottom of the Talk page. Sign all your Talk page comments with " Haomimimi (talk) 15:15, 30 November 2020 (UTC) " (that will stamp your entries with your username and time/date).
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 19 November 2020
- In class - Catch-Up with Weeks 6-10
Catch-up with anything you still owe from Weeks 6-10. If you are caught up and have received credit from each of those weeks, then you may continue onto the BONUS essay.
All Wikipedia Extra Credit asignments are due by Sunday, November 29.
- Milestones
** BONUS ** (one EXTRA point!)
Post a new section to the end of the professor's Talk page. Address the following:
- In a reflective and detailed paragraph, describe what your experience was like (overall) with this Wikipedia extra credit assignment.
- Discuss what you learned.
- Why / why not do you intend to continue editing on Wikipedia?