Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Texas AM/Technical Editing (Spring 2022)

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Course name

Technical Editing

Institution

Texas AM

Instructor

Joshua DiCaglio

Wikipedia Expert

Ian (Wiki Ed)

Subject

Editing, Technical Communication

Course dates

2022-01-18 00:00:00 UTC – 2022-05-10 23:59:59 UTC

Approximate number of student editors

25

This is an applied course meant to prepare students to function as an editor in technical and professional venues. We will use Wikipedia to target certain less-tangible skills necessary for advanced editing: the ability to join a community of editors that already have standards in place, learn to read and improve writing within those conventions, and learn to facilitate good writing within this existing community. Rather than simply copyediting existing articles, creating new articles, or adding new content to existing articles, the students will focus on finding articles that have a good base of content but which need editorial intervention to help the larger community of potential editors continue to improve the articles. Students will focus primarily on issues of organization, appropriateness, and Wikipedia style, with the aim of significantly improving the existing content of an article. Students will be expected to work within the Wikipedia infrastructure, including engaging with current interested editors and leaving traces of their work to assist with future editing of the articles they worked on.

Student	Assigned	Reviewing
CognitiveBehavioralTherapyWizardTheIX	Das Boot, Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
SICrawford	Food blogging, Marching
Grenadine13	Iliad, Achilles and Patroclus, Patroclus
Samanthajones101	Rickets, Vitamin deficiency
Vojo2024	Her Kind (poem), Prayer in the New Testament, Prayer, meditation and contemplation in Christianity
JaneAshton99	Jake the Dog, Myth
YehLikeJazz?	M*A*S*H (TV series), Resistor
Coilebethany	Internal monologue, Intrapersonal communication
KDBrox	African-American representation in Hollywood, Short story
Jazzie444	Manhwa, Human rights education
JalepenoPoppr	Lightning McQueen, Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour
Fermentedtoes	Friends with benefits relationships, Freudian slip
DjDias	Photovoltaics, Photovoltaic effect, Photovoltaic system
Sageicedlatte	Impostor syndrome, Zachary Karabell
Pennynm	Play On (Carrie Underwood album), Economics of nuclear power plants
Nutellatoastt	Traditional animation, Computer animation, Animation
Editingpersona	New wave music, Fanfiction.net
Slysightly	Clinical vampirism, Psyche (mythology)
.stughi.	Toph Beifong, Distributed firewall
Exhausted Lemon	Alistair (Dragon Age), Animatronics
Aed94	American Girl, The Hitcher (2007 film)
Abbie.Beckley	Queer theory

Timeline

Week 4

Course meetings

Monday, 7 February 2022   |   Wednesday, 9 February 2022   |   Friday, 11 February 2022

In class - Note

schedule and activities are in Canvas

We will be using the WikiEdu dashboard to select our articles and track class edits. All smaller assignments are in Canvas. As much work as possible will be completed in Wikipedia itself.