Writing Wikipedia Articles/SOO 2

1. introduction: where to begin? pete’s standard talk
2. am I the right person? yes, conflict of interest; I am not an expert
3. wiki syntax and other techie stuff
4. neutral point of view; references
5. how wikipedia is organized = what should I work on? = CommOER itself

Who is target audience?

Divide class into sections

Figure out archiving

Create a page for class suggestions

Wiki markup tools

Teaser video example: take a stub and make it longer to show people how easy it is to edit wikipedia - pete and columbia river, sara and typos - all you have to do is care about something and want to share what you know

pick an article

homework one: create a 10-q form based on old one asking

wiki expert? - Victoria

oer expert? - Ed

has COI? - Colin

topics see explored?

badges

know wiki markup

have conflict of interest issues

have “expert” issues

1. oer and wiki expert w conflict of interest issues
2. oer expert, wiki user who doesnt think they should edit oer articles
3. no wiki experience
4. some wiki experience

Course Components

Webinar

• Introduce a concept or policy
• Dig into the specifics (example: neutrality, with specific cases, not nec OER)
• Tips and tricks
• Use polling, Q/A to select article(s) to work on

Homework

• Readings
• Tasks: organic, e.g. continue article from webinar

Lab/Office Hours

Ideas

SOO brainstorm #1

WEBINAR 1: Writing Wikipedia Articles/Week 1

Homework: Add user account

WEBINAR 2

1. what is good content?
2. here’s a challenge: e.g. get OER congress into OER article