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Course name
Chemical Game Theory
Institution
Penn State
Instructor
Darrel Velegol
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Chemical engineering
Course dates
2018-10-22 00:00:00 UTC – 2018-12-14 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
12


The goal of this course is that our class team will publish a page on Wikipedia on Chemical Game Theory. This assignment will require scholarship, literature searching, composition, and other items.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Lcr5140
Jake13245
Eric Zimmerer
Asmoluk1
Ahuynh331
JenniferBurke12
Cef5286
HusainNoureldeen
Mgc5223
Fgentile12
Vincentcucchiara
Gcgavazzi
Chrisb6575

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings
Monday, 22 October 2018
In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment

Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:


Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia

Each of us needs to create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link provided (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.)

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 2

Course meetings
Monday, 29 October 2018
Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise

For this exercise, please explore topics related to our course, including the article about game theory as well as other related topics

Evaluate an article

Week 3

Course meetings
Monday, 5 November 2018
Assignment - Outline our article

As a group, we will be drafting a new article about chemical game theory. This week, we should begin to outline our article. What is each of us going to be responsible for drafting to grow our article? Once we have our section assigned, each of us should find at least one source for supporting our work. Use your Wikipedia sandbox to start outlining your section and your sources.

Don't forget to reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions. They can be reached using the Get Help button on this course page. 

Exercise

Choose your plan / Find your sources


Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Chemistry

Week 4

Course meetings
Monday, 12 November 2018
Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Don't forget to reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions. They can be reached using the Get Help button on this course page. 

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 5

Course meetings
Monday, 19 November 2018
Assignment - Peer review an article

Use this guiding framework to review another students' draft of their section. 

Guiding framework

Milestones

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.


Assignment - Respond to your peer review

You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:

  • Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
  • Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Week 6

Course meetings
Monday, 26 November 2018
Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 7

Course meetings
Monday, 3 December 2018
Assignment - Continue improving your article

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 - Final article

It's the final week 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 Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Week 8

Course meetings
Monday, 10 December 2018
Assignment - Reflective essay

Guiding questions

Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.