Introduction to Wikipedia & Wikipedia assignment

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Wide variety of uses

The encyclopedia that anyone can edit

Who is editing now? http://rcmap.hatnote.com/#en http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/ http://rcmap.hatnote.com/#en

Major source of information on most psychological concepts

Misalignment in Wikipedia: Iron Man 10,189 words The article about iron man has more than 10 thousand words, has lots of useful information and well-structured.

Yet many Wikipedia articles on psychology were impoverished or out of date Start Quality Little content 713 words 8 references 50% of ~5,000 psychology articles not evaluated 83% of ~2,500 evaluated articles were rated “C” or below

Wikipedia Assignment Substantially improve an existing one on a topic relevant to the course

Goals of Wikipedia assignment Become an “expert” in some topic relevant to the course Provide a public good Return some of what you’ve learned back to the world by improving Wikipedia Become a better writer Improve your digital literacy Provide common ground for class Wikipedia as an interesting online group/community

New Original 2 pages with bio separated from theory Sections: 27 Words: 5,669 Images: 1 References: 35 External links: 18 Original 1 article combing bio and theory Sections: 7 Words: 831 Images: 0 References: 5 External links: 7

Article discussion pages: Where coordination gets done http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Carnegie_Mellon_University#Rankings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Carnegie_Mellon_University#Rankings

Principles and policies

To get started Look through the assignment at http://orgcom16.hciresearch.org/content/wikipedia-assignment Create a Wikipedia account & signup @ Communication in Groups & Organizations on the Wikipedia educational portal https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Carnegie_Mellon_University/Communication_in_Groups_and_Organizations__(Fall)?enroll=vchmixgn  Passcode = vchmixgn Then start the training.

Timeline & important deadlines Week Activity 2 Create a Wikipedia account & user page, and then enroll; Training 3 Learn how to evaluate Wikipedia articles 4 Add 1–2 sentences of new information to a Wikipedia article 5 Post 3 to 5 potential Wikipedia articles to course forum  6 Select and article and partner, and start planning improvements. Meet with the course instructor to discuss your article 7 Draft your article 8 Choose articles to peer review 9 Complete peer review & respond to others’ reviews of your article. Complete first draft. 10 Continue to improve your article. 11 Polish your article. Respond to community feedback, if any. 12 Finalize your article.  13 Submit final article 15 Submit reflection essay