Wikipedia Assignment [15 points]
The Wikipedia assignment is designed to give you hands-on practice by providing you with an example of social computing technologies and interacting with an online community. Through working with another classmate, you will practice collaborative work online and face-to-face. This group assignment will require you to work in groups of two students. Your Wikipedia assignment consists of three steps:
- Step 1 - Getting Started (due Sep 25):
in this step of the assignment you will become familiar with Wikipedia. It requires you to do the followings:- Create a Wikipedia account
- Signup with APSWI portal (for tacking purpose)
- Create your Wikipedia userpage
- Finish readings: Good article criteria , Wikipedia: Five pillars (There will be a short in-class quiz from the readings)
- 2 points for creating your Wikipedia account and userpage
- 2 points for your Wikipedia quiz (quiz will be in class on Sep 25)
- Step 2 - Identifying an article to improve (due Oct 16):
In this step you will identify a Wikipedia article related to a topic covered in the course which requires improvement and identify two areas of improvement including missing content, missing references, missing internal links, or missing figures. You need to post on the article talk page your plan for improving the article. Your grade for this step will be based on your plan that is posted on the article talkpage and your coordination with your partner on the article talkpage. You will be graded for this step based on the following criteria:- 0.5 point for relevance of article to course
- 3 points for relevance, and accuracy of your suggestions to improve the article
- 2.5 points for discussion and coordination with your partner on the article talkpage
- Step 3 - Contributing to Wikipeida (due Nov 6):
In this step you will implement the change you suggested in step 2. You will be graded based on the following criteria:- 1 point for following your plan of step 2, taking into account any feedback from Wikipedians
- 4 points for quality of your changes, i.e. accurate and relevant content, references, links and figures
- 1 point for quality of writing. You have to make sure it is well-written with correct English