Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of California, Berkeley/Berkeley Interdisciplinary Research Group on Privacy - Coleman Lab (Spring 2019): Difference between revisions

This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online training to help you get started on Wikipedia.

Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your "Talk page" for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.

To help you plan your time the Executive Director of the Lab and Leadership team have assigned a "difficulty level" to each week of work. These levels are based on the work of prior lab members. The goal is to help you determine, in advance, how much effort will be required. A Difficulty Level of 1 = easy effort; Difficulty Level 2 = easy to moderate effort; Level 3 = moderate effort; Level 4 = moderate to intense effort; and Level 5 = intense effort. Check in ahead of time if you have questions and please make sure to plan accordingly.

To get started, please review the following handouts:

Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
Evaluating Wikipedia

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.)
***When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate's "Talk page." Be prepared to show off your introduction in lab!!***

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 2

Course meetings

Monday, 11 February 2019 | Tuesday, 12 February 2019 | Wednesday, 13 February 2019 | Thursday, 14 February 2019 | Friday, 15 February 2019

Assignment - Evaluate Two Privacy Articles on Wikipedia (Level 2)

For your assignment, you should complete this exercise for TWO articles.

To start, take the trainings linked here. Then, read the Wikipedia article about information privacy and select another article of your choice on either the topic of privacy, surveillance, or cyber security.

Use those two articles while you complete the exercise:

Exercise

Evaluate an article

In your sandbox, write up your answers to these questions for the two articles you reviewed.
Optional (feel like showing off): Choose at least 1 question from the above list that is relevant to one of the articles you're evaluating. Leave your evaluation on the article's "Talk page." Be sure to sign your feedback with four tildes — Tommytheprius (talk) 18:30, 1 February 2019 (UTC). [reply]

In class - Friday Lab Discussion: What's a Content Gap?

Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider these additional questions. We will discuss them in Lab on Friday.

Wikipedians often talk about "content gaps." What do you think a content gap is, and what are some possible ways to identify them?
What are some reasons a content gap might arise? What are some ways to remedy them?
Does it matter who writes Wikipedia?
What does it mean to be "unbiased" on Wikipedia? How is that different, or similar, to your own definition of "bias"?

Week 3

Course meetings

Monday, 18 February 2019 | Tuesday, 19 February 2019 | Wednesday, 20 February 2019 | Thursday, 21 February 2019 | Friday, 22 February 2019

Assignment - Add to Two Articles on Privacy /Start compiling your Bibliography (Level 2)

- - Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article. Use the training here and the exercise below to complete this assignment.***

Exercise

Add a citation

This task will require you perform a bit of research. Reach out to me or to members of our larger team if you need help. Remember you have Berkeley Librarian Corliss Lee who is happy to help you! You can also write to our listserv if you need a little help. Wikipedia also has a ton of resources to help you. Click the "Get Help" button and use them.

- - IF YOU HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED A PRIVACY+ TOPIC****

Based on our work so far this term, find your approved topic in the portal (assigned by the Executive Director of the lab), select it and assign it to yourself on the Students tab above. You can use this exercise to help you with the task.

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Begin compiling a list of relevant, reliable, peer reviewed, journal articles. Compile a list of at least 5 this week that are at least 10 pages long (without tables, graphs, citations, etc) on your topic in ASA format, and include them in your memo this week. Please also post that bibliography to the talk page of the article you'll be working on if you are working on an existing page or in your sandbox if you will be creating a new page. Make sure to check in on the "Talk page" if you are updating and article to see if anyone has advice on your bibliography.
If you want to get ahead, collect a few more relevant articles and/or start preparing your annotations on articles that are directly related to your topic. This will save you a LOT of time later.

In class - Participate in Lab's Mini Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon

Come prepared to participate in a fast moving, research driven, writing, and revising party. This week we will be creating a brand new page for a notable privacy scholar or privacy issue from scratch OR updating a relevant stub page. Details on the who or what we will be working on are in your weekly email. Come caffeinated and ready to work and have fun!

Week 4

Course meetings

Monday, 25 February 2019 | Tuesday, 26 February 2019 | Wednesday, 27 February 2019 | Thursday, 28 February 2019 | Friday, 1 March 2019

Assignment - Pitch Your Topic / Get Approval / Start Annotating (Level 3)

If you have not done so already it's time to pitch possible article topics, get approval, and then assign your new page to yourself. If you do not have an approved topic at this point discuss your topic with the Director of the lab and get the topic approved.

If you already have a topic assigned by the Director of the Lab it is time to find a few more peer-reviewed articles (remember you need a minimum of 20 articles that are at least 10 pages long in your final annotated bibliography (without tables, graphs, citations, etc) on your topic in ASA format, and start preparing your annotated bibliography if you have not already done so. Remember, if you need help formatting your bibliography in ASA style, try out Citation Machine.

Remember you can reach out to Corliss or the larger research team for help on finding articles and you have a host of resources on our Lab web page on how to do annotations. You have also already done an annotation on an article alongside members of the Lab. You can also bring your questions to lab on Fridays or send them out on the listserv.

Review page 6 of your Editing Wikipedia guidebook.
***Based on our work so far this term, find your approved topic in the portal (assigned by the Director of the lab), select it and assign it to yourself on the Students tab above if you have not already done so.***
- When you select your article, be sure to copy and paste the URL so that it directs to the article and not a similar page (the URL is case-sensitive)
***In your sandbox, write a few sentences about what you plan to contribute to the selected article or why you are creating this new article.***
- Think back to when you did an article critique. What else can you add? Post some of your ideas in your sandbox.
- Perhaps you might make an outline of your future article (or contribution) and also put that in your sandbox.
***Continue compiling a list of relevant, reliable, peer reviewed, journal articles. ***
- Compile a list of at least 20 peer reviewed journal articles that are at least 10 pages each (without tables, graphs, citations, etc) on your topic in ASA format, and bring one copy to lab on Friday.
- Please also post that bibliography to the talk page of the article you'll be working on if you are working on an existing page or in your sandbox if you will be creating a new page. Make sure to check in on the "Talk page" if you are updating an article to see if anyone has advice on your bibliography.
- Include the draft of your bibliography and any annotations you have created in your memo this week.
***Begin/Continue preparing article annotations***
- Complete 3-5 annotations this week and send your completed annotations out on the Lab listserv. Please also add them to our shared document on the Lab website and bring one copy to lab on Friday.

In class - Friday Lab Discussion: Thinking About Sources and Plagiarism

Blog posts and press releases are considered poor sources of reliable information. Why?
What are some reasons you might not want to use a company's website as the main source of information about that company?
What is the difference between a copyright violation and plagiarism?
What are some good techniques to avoid close paraphrasing and plagiarism?

Week 5

Course meetings

Monday, 4 March 2019 | Tuesday, 5 March 2019 | Wednesday, 6 March 2019 | Thursday, 7 March 2019 | Friday, 8 March 2019

Assignment - Annotate Sources / Outline Your Article / Draft Your Article (Level 4)

You've submitted your 5 areas of interest/possible topics, got one approved by the Lab Director, found your peer reviewed articles, created an ASA formatted bibliography, and you have completed 3-5 annotations (possibly more). If not, it is time to get moving on annotations.

***You will need to bring an additional 5-10 annotations with you on Friday so you can receive feedback. Please send your updated bibliography with new annotations out on the lab listserv as well and update them (and the ones you did last week) in our shared document. It is also now time to start outlining your article (and writing) your article.***

*** Creating a new article? ***

Write an outline of that topic in the form of a standard Wikipedia article "lead section." Write it in your sandbox.
- A "lead" section is not a traditional introduction. It should summarize, very briefly, what the rest of the article will say in detail. The first paragraph should include important, broad facts about the subject. A good example is Ada Lovelace. See Editing Wikipedia page 9 for more ideas. If you get stuck write to the group on the listserv with questions, look at other Wikipedia pages, use the "Get Help" button and as usual plan to bring questions to lab.
- Also make an outline of additional sections you might include in your article and what might be in them. You made a list of interesting related Wikipedia articles and topics with their links as a lab during the lab exercise where we chose your topic, consider reviewing that too. You will need to link your page to others. Start thinking about that and make a new list. You will need that list for Friday also.

- - Improving an existing article? ***

Identify what's missing from the current form of the article. Think back to the skills you learned while critiquing an article. Look at the example of a well done articles (above).
If you get stuck write to the group on the listserv with questions, look at other Wikipedia pages, use the "Get Help" button and as usual plan to bring questions to lab.
Make notes for improvement in your sandbox.
Also make an outline of additional sections you might include in your article and what might be in them. You made a list of interesting related Wikipedia articles and topics with their links as a lab during the lab exercise where we chose your topic, consider reviewing that too. You will need to link your page to others. Start thinking about that and make a new list. You will need that list for Friday also.

Keep reading (and annotating) your sources as you begin to write the body of the article. Remember the magic number is 20 annotations on 20 peer reviewed articles of at least 10 pages (without citations, tables, graphs, etc).

Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9

Add 5 and Edit 5

***Add five new privacy, surveillance, or cybersecurity pages to the Privacy+ pages list for this semester on the lab web page with a link and your name in brackets next to it. Edit every page you add to the list. Possible Options: Add two sentences. Add a citation. Fix punctuation. Clarify a sentence or two.***

Don't forget to leave notes so other Wikipedians know what you edited

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 6

Course meetings

Monday, 11 March 2019 | Tuesday, 12 March 2019 | Wednesday, 13 March 2019 | Thursday, 14 March 2019 | Friday, 15 March 2019

Assignment - Expand your Draft ***(Level 5)***

Keep working on transforming your article into a complete first draft. Get your draft ready for peer-review. During lab on Friday everyone will discuss and peer review everyone's work.
If you'd like a Content Expert to review your draft, now is the time! Click the "Get Help" button in your sandbox to request notes. I strongly encourage you to do this.

Assignment - Peer Review & Copy Edit (ASAP so everyone can respond to feedback in memo)

Guiding framework

Review "Peer Review" guiding framework.
Make sure your article is ready to be peer reviewed by Thursday at noon.
Beginning on Thursday at noon select the two classmates’ articles that you were assigned in this weeks email, assign them to yourself, and then peer review and copy edit their articles. If you are not clear on what this means, Google both terms and also send a note to the listserv.
Please put your peer review in your labmate's sandbox (not the talk page as the training may suggest).
As you review, make spelling, grammar, and other adjustments. Pay attention to the tone of the article. Is it encyclopedic?

Assignment - Add 5 and Edit 5

***Add five new privacy, surveillance, or cybersecurity pages to the Privacy+ pages list for this semester on the lab web page with a link and your name in brackets next to it. Edit every page you add to the list. Possible Options: Add two sentences. Add a citation. Fix punctuation. Clarify a sentence or two.***

Don't forget to leave notes so other Wikipedians know what you edited

Milestones

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles. Every article has been reviewed at least twice.

Assignment - Respond to Your Peer Review (Please complete and include in your memo)

You have some feedback from other students in your sandbox and from lab this week (and possibly other Wikipedians). It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!

Read Editing Wikipedia pages 12 and 14.
Return to your draft or article and think about the suggestions. Decide which ones to start implementing. Reach out to your instructor or your Content Expert if you have any questions.
***Include a copy of your article draft, peer feedback, and what you have done in response to peer feedback in your weekly memo.***

In class - Friday Lab Discussion: Thinking About Wikipedia

What do you think of Wikipedia's definition of "neutrality"?
What are the impacts and limits of Wikipedia as a source of information?
On Wikipedia, all material must be attributable to reliable, published sources. What kinds of sources does this exclude? Can you think of any problems that might create?
If Wikipedia was written 100 years ago, how might its content (and contributors) be different? What about 100 years from now?

Week 7

Course meetings

Monday, 18 March 2019 | Tuesday, 19 March 2019 | Wednesday, 20 March 2019 | Thursday, 21 March 2019 | Friday, 22 March 2019

Assignment - Begin Moving Your Work to Wikipedia (Level 4)

- - Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to start moving bits and pieces of your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."***

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Assignment - Add 5 and Edit 5

***Add five new privacy, surveillance, or cybersecurity pages to the Privacy+ pages list for this semester on the lab web page with a link and your name in brackets next to it. Edit every page you add to the list. Possible Options: Add two sentences. Add a citation. Fix punctuation. Clarify a sentence or two.***

Don't forget to leave notes so other Wikipedians know what you edited

Assignment - Peer Review and Copy Edit Two Assigned Pages

***Peer review your classmates' drafts. Leave suggestions in their sandbox.***

As you review, make spelling, grammar, and other adjustments. Pay attention to the tone of the article. Is it encyclopedic?
Other editors may be reviewing your work also, so look for their comments! Be sure to acknowledge feedback from other Wikipedians.

Assignment - Respond to Your Peer Review

***Include a copy of your article draft, peer feedback, and what you have done in response to peer feedback in your weekly memo.***

Week 8

Course meetings

Monday, 1 April 2019 | Tuesday, 2 April 2019 | Wednesday, 3 April 2019 | Thursday, 4 April 2019 | Friday, 5 April 2019

Assignment - Continue Improving your Article (Level 4)

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 - Polish your Work

Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Content Expert at any time if you need further help!

Assignment - Prepare For Undergraduate Symposium Presentation

Prepare for an in-class presentation about your Wikipedia editing experience.
Review videos of previous presentations and start to think about what you want to do

Assignment - Add 5 and Edit 5

***Add five new privacy, surveillance, or cybersecurity pages to the Privacy+ pages list for this semester on the lab web page with a link and your name in brackets next to it. Edit every page you add to the list. Possible Options: Add two sentences. Add a citation. Fix punctuation. Clarify a sentence or two.***

Don't forget to leave notes so other Wikipedians know what you edited

Assignment - Peer Review and Copy Edit One Assigned Pages

***Peer review your classmate's drafts. Leave suggestions in their sandbox.***

As you review, make spelling, grammar, and other adjustments. Pay attention to the tone of the article. Is it encyclopedic?
Other editors may be reviewing your work also, so look for their comments! Be sure to acknowledge feedback from other Wikipedians.

Assignment - Respond to Your Peer Review

***Include a copy of your article draft, peer feedback, and what you have done in response to peer feedback in your weekly memo.***

Week 9

Course meetings

Monday, 8 April 2019 | Tuesday, 9 April 2019 | Wednesday, 10 April 2019 | Thursday, 11 April 2019 | Friday, 12 April 2019

Assignment - Improve your Article and Prepare for your Presentation (Level 3)

Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.

Read Editing Wikipedia page 12 to see how to create links from your article to others, and from other articles to your own. Try to link to 3–5 articles, and link to your article from 2–3 other articles.
Consider adding an image to your article. Wikipedia has strict rules about what media can be added, so make sure to take the 'Contributing Images and Media Files' training before you upload an image.

'Polish your work'

Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Content Expert at any time if you need further help!

Prepare for presentation at lab's Undergraduate Research Symposium
Prepare for presentation about your Wikipedia editing experience.

Review videos of previous presentations and start to think about what you want to do

Assignment - Add 5 and Edit 5

***Add five new privacy, surveillance, or cybersecurity pages to the Privacy+ pages list for this semester on the lab web page with a link and your name in brackets next to it. Edit every page you add to the list. Possible Options: Add two sentences. Add a citation. Fix punctuation. Clarify a sentence or two.***

Don't forget to leave notes so other Wikipedians know what you edited

Assignment - Final Article Development

It's the final few weeks 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 Content Expert at any time!

Milestones

Do some deep breathing exercises. Do a few extra reps at the gym. Phone a friend. Have some chocolate. Power pose. Meditate. Do whatever you need to do to prepare yourself. Your article needs to be uploaded to the mainspace by Friday next week at the very latest. Remember you can continue to edit it. You just need to get it up there! Remember how this all started....Be Bold!

Assignment - Peer Review and Copy Edit One Assigned Pages

***Peer review your classmate's drafts. Leave suggestions in their sandbox.***

As you review, make spelling, grammar, and other adjustments. Pay attention to the tone of the article. Is it encyclopedic?
Other editors may be reviewing your work also, so look for their comments! Be sure to acknowledge feedback from other Wikipedians.

Assignment - Respond to Your Peer Review

***Include a copy of your article draft, peer feedback, and what you have done in response to peer feedback in your weekly memo.***

Week 10

Course meetings

Monday, 15 April 2019 | Tuesday, 16 April 2019 | Wednesday, 17 April 2019 | Thursday, 18 April 2019 | Friday, 19 April 2019

Assignment - Improve your Article and Prepare for your Presentation (Level 3)

Assignment

Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.

Read Editing Wikipedia page 12 to see how to create links from your article to others, and from other articles to your own. Try to link to 3–5 articles, and link to your article from 2–3 other articles.
Consider adding an image to your article. Wikipedia has strict rules about what media can be added, so make sure to take the 'Contributing Images and Media Files' training before you upload an image.

Polish your work

Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Content Expert at any time if you need further help!

Prepare for in-class presentation
Prepare for an in-class presentation about your Wikipedia editing experience.

Assignment - Upload your Article to the Mainspace

It may seem scary but that does not mean it isn't time! It's time to put your article in the mainspace.

Assignment - Add 5 and Edit 5

***Add five new privacy, surveillance, or cybersecurity pages to the Privacy+ pages list for this semester on the lab web page with a link and your name in brackets next to it. Edit every page you add to the list. Possible Options: Add two sentences. Add a citation. Fix punctuation. Clarify a sentence or two.***

Don't forget to leave notes so other Wikipedians know what you edited

Assignment - Peer Review and Copy Edit One Assigned Pages

***Peer review your classmate's drafts. Leave suggestions in their sandbox.***

As you review, make spelling, grammar, and other adjustments. Pay attention to the tone of the article. Is it encyclopedic?
Other editors may be reviewing your work also, so look for their comments! Be sure to acknowledge feedback from other Wikipedian

Assignment - Respond to Your Peer Review

***Include a copy of your article draft, peer feedback, and what you have done in response to peer feedback in your weekly memo.***

Week 11

Course meetings

Monday, 22 April 2019 | Tuesday, 23 April 2019 | Wednesday, 24 April 2019 | Thursday, 25 April 2019 | Friday, 26 April 2019

Milestones

If you have not already done so please add your name to a time on the sign up sheet on the lab webpage. Ahead of the meeting make sure all of your documents are up to date in your Dropbox folder. Please also bring one copy of your final article, your final annotated bibliography, and your blog post with you.

Week 12

Course meetings

Monday, 29 April 2019 | Tuesday, 30 April 2019 | Wednesday, 1 May 2019 | Thursday, 2 May 2019 | Friday, 3 May 2019

In class - Article Edits are Complete/ Article Posted / Prepare to Present

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready to present what they have done to the head of the lab during your one-on-one meeting.

Assignment - Add 5 and Edit 5

***Add five new privacy, surveillance, or cybersecurity pages to the Privacy+ pages list for this semester on the lab web page with a link and your name in brackets next to it. Edit every page you add to the list. Possible Options: Add two sentences. Add a citation. Fix punctuation. Clarify a sentence or two.***

Don't forget to leave notes so other Wikipedians know what you edited

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 * <span style="font-weight: 600;">In </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Mypage/sandbox <span style="font-weight: 600;">your sandbox</span>]<span style="font-weight: 600;">, write up your answers to these questions for the two articles you reviewed. </span>
-* '''Optional (feel like showing off):''' Choose at least 1 question from the above list that is relevant to one of the articles you're evaluating. Leave your evaluation on the article's '''&quot;Talk page.&quot;''' Be sure to sign your feedback with four tildes — [[User:Tommytheprius|Tommytheprius]] ([[User talk:Tommytheprius|talk]]) 23:41, 31 January 2019 (UTC).
+* '''Optional (feel like showing off):''' Choose at least 1 question from the above list that is relevant to one of the articles you're evaluating. Leave your evaluation on the article's '''&quot;Talk page.&quot;''' Be sure to sign your feedback with four tildes — [[User:Tommytheprius|Tommytheprius]] ([[User talk:Tommytheprius|talk]]) 18:30, 1 February 2019 (UTC).
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 ** '''Include the draft of your bibliography and any annotations you have created in your memo this week.'''
 * '''***Begin/Continue preparing article annotations***'''
-** '''Complete 3-5 annotations this week and send your completed annotations out on the Lab listserv please also add them to our shared document on the Lab website.  '''
+** '''Complete 3-5 annotations this week and send your completed annotations out on the Lab listserv. Please also add them to our shared document on the Lab website and bring one copy to lab on Friday.  '''
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