{"id":12,"date":"2015-01-06T14:03:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T21:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span406\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2015-01-06T14:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T21:46:17","slug":"wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span406\/wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this assignment (worth 25% of your grade), you are to sign up with <a href=\"http:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Especial:Entrar&#038;type=signup\" target=\"_blank\">creating an account<\/a> and acquiring a username, and in groups of three or four collaboratively work on revising a Wikipedia article relevant to the course topic.<\/p>\n<p>After you have signed up to Wikipedia, and learned the basics of editing, your first step will be to evaluate the current state of the article, using Wikipedia&#8217;s own guidelines.  Collectively, you will identify its flaws and draw up a plan to improve the article.  This will be worth 5%.<\/p>\n<p>Then your aim is to improve your article sufficiently so it is equivalent to at least \u201cgood article,\u201d and ideally even \u201cfeatured article,\u201d status. <\/p>\n<p>Your short research assignment will also feed into the Wikipedia project.<\/p>\n<p><em>Grading<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of the 25% of your grade dedicated to this project, 5% is attached to your collective evaluation of the article and plan for improvement.  Of the remaining 20%, half will be decided by your fellow group-members.  The other half will be decided either by me, or (if you have gained \u201cgood article\u201d or \u201cfeatured article\u201d status) by your objective improvements to the article.<\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Usuario:Jbmurray\/EEFF#Art.C3.ADculos\">our Wikipedia project page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this assignment (worth 25% of your grade), you are to sign up with Wikipedia, creating an account and acquiring a username, and in groups of three or four collaboratively work on revising a Wikipedia article relevant to the course topic. After you have signed up to Wikipedia, and learned the basics of editing, your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span406\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span406\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span406\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span406\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span406\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span406\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span406\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span406\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}