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Course name
Europe's Intellectual Transformations Renaissance to Enlightenment
Institution
University of Chicago
Instructor
Ada Palmer
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
History
Course dates
2020-09-29 00:00:00 UTC – 2020-12-31 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
20


European intellectual history from High Medieval to Enlightenment, with a focus on book history, how educational systems affected thought, and continuity. Usually European thought is divided up with rigid lines between Medieval and Renaissance, and another rigid line at 1600 with Bacon and Descartes. The focus of this course is to remove those barriers and show continuities of ideas and practice, and restore the role of the Renaissance which is often skipped over in histories of philosophy, which tend to go straight from Aquinas to Descartes ignoring the centuries in between.

The course will actually be a very large course, probably 90 students, but students will be given the option of three different tracks of assignments to take, of which Wikipedia will be one of them. When I did this in my 90-person Censorship and Information Control course we had round 18-20 students choose to do it, and I expect this will be the same.

I would be happy to do Wiki-ed again and have done it twice so am a bit of a veteran, but it is not essential to this course so, if it really is the case that there is a shortage of support resources this year so not all courses that want to do Wiki-ed will have a chance, I would be happy to be made low-priority compared to other courses which want to make Wiki-ed more central, or which are focusing on areas Wikipedia needs to cover more (i.e. not Europe).

Student Assigned Reviewing
Patrickhduffey D'Alembert's Dream
Nestorthemidwaycat Madame de Brinvilliers Micromégas
Alank202 Micromégas Madame de Brinvilliers
Seline.messmer Antonio Manetti, de:Antonio Manetti D'Alembert's Dream
Roland Black
Jskobe

Timeline

Week 2

Course meetings
Tuesday, 13 October 2020   |   Thursday, 15 October 2020
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

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.)

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 3

Course meetings
Tuesday, 20 October 2020   |   Thursday, 22 October 2020
Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia
In class - Small group session with Wikipedia TA (Zoom)
Thinking about Sources

Week 4

Course meetings
Tuesday, 27 October 2020   |   Thursday, 29 October 2020
Assignment - Choose possible topics

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6


Assignment - Add to an article
In class - Breakout session with Wikipedia TA (in class)
What is a Content Gap?

Week 5

Course meetings
Tuesday, 3 November 2020   |   Thursday, 5 November 2020
Assignment - Exercise
Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9


Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Books

History


In class - Breakout session with Wikipedia TA (Zoom)
Project Progress
Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 6

Course meetings
Tuesday, 10 November 2020   |   Thursday, 12 November 2020
In class - NOTE
no TA breakout discussion session this week
In class - Discussion

Week 7

Course meetings
Tuesday, 17 November 2020   |   Thursday, 19 November 2020
Assignment - Peer review an article

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.


In class - Breakout session with Wikipedia TA (Zoom)
Progress check-in
Assignment - Exercise

Week 8

Course meetings
Tuesday, 1 December 2020   |   Thursday, 3 December 2020
In class - NOTE
No TA breakout session this week
Assignment - Continue improving 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 Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

Week 9

Course meetings
Thursday, 10 December 2020
In class - Breakout session with Wikipedia TA (Zoom)
Reflections on Wikipedia
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!


Assignment - Reflective essay
Milestones

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