Misplaced Pages

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Timeline for the course

Week 1: Misplaced Pages essentials

In the first week you will familiarize yourselves with Misplaced Pages policies and editing techniques. Follow the steps below and you will begin learning how to edit by using your sandbox and the user talk pages. Take time to read the handouts and go through the trainings and tutorials in the 'Support' section. And don't forget, everything you need to know about Misplaced Pages is on Misplaced Pages!

Get started

• Register at the top left of the course page with your token, which you will be given, by clicking "Enroll" This will only take a matter of minutes
• Take WP:Training for students and read WP:STUDENTS. This will take over an hour
• Look over the Help:Cheatsheet (shortcut WP:CHEAT), to get an idea of how things work on Misplaced Pages Spend at least a few minutes on this page
• Create your user page. To do this, simply click on your newly created account name, which appears in red in the upper right hand corner of the Misplaced Pages interface. You are now at your user page, which should have a header that reads "User:<Your Username>". In order to create your user page, click on the link towards the upper right hand corner of the Misplaced Pages interface which says "Create". After clicking on the "Create" link, you will be redirected to a page with a header that reads "Editing User:<Your Username>" with a large text box. In the large text box compose 2–3 sentences about yourself, indicating that you are a student at the Graduate Institute and you are contributing to Misplaced Pages as part of this course assignment. Scroll below, add an edit summary, and click "Save Page." At this point the link containing your account name will change in color from red to blue indicating that a linked page now exists. To get started, you might copy and paste: I'm editing Misplaced Pages as part of ] and here's a link to ]. Just replace the portion that says "Your user name" with, yes, your user name. Please do include the links to the course page and your sandbox on your user page.
• Create your sandbox Misplaced Pages:About the sandbox. The sandbox feature of Misplaced Pages is a place where you can start and edit your contribution until you are ready to release it live on Misplaced Pages. Your sandbox will allow you to practice Misplaced Pages syntax and editing without being fully held to the standards in Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style. To create your sandbox, follow the link and figure it out. You might see WP:YFAS for help. Please include some text and some practice references (hopefully with links to real reliable sources) in your sandbox.
• See Help:Using talk pages and look at the portion that is titled "Indendation". Leave a message for a two of your classmates' user talk pages telling them something random or something you like or dislike about Misplaced Pages so far, or asking them about something you might not quite understand about Misplaced Pages yet. (If you want to find a place to ask questions on Misplaced Pages see WP:HELP and the section that says "I'm stuck".) Don't forget to sign your talk page posts with ~~~~

Support materials

• Sandbox tutorial
• Talk pages tutorial video
• Evaluating Misplaced Pages article quality brochure

Weeks 2–4: Topic selection

Spend these weeks in groups to decide the topic you want to work on. We identified below some topics relevant for the class that could be further expanded and edited. Analyze these articles using the Misplaced Pages criteria for a Good Article and identify sections you find important to revise or add. If you are interested in a topic that is not covered at all on Misplaced Pages, you can also create a new Wiki entry.

• Feminism in international relations
• Feminist method
• Migrant domestic workers
• Gender and development
• Gender#Gender and economic development
• Gender mainstreaming
• Domestic work
• Gender and food security#Gender and global food security policy, section of the gender and food security article
• Sexual violence
• Violence against women
• War rape
• Women's rights#Modern movements, Women's rights article, section on modern movements
• Feminist movement
• Women and human rights
• Sexual orientation and military service
• Violence against LGBT people
• International adoption
• Fertility tourism

Assignment due by 21st October: groups should submit a proposal about the article/paragraphs/sections they want to contribute to Misplaced Pages. The proposal should persuade your audience of the merits of the planned changes or new entry and how your entry will differ from or improve upon any existing or related entries. The proposal should cover the concepts necessary to a critical understanding of the issues; the outline of the entry; a list of references expected to be applicable or useful. Your proposal needs to clearly indicate the work you plan to contribute. If you are contributing a new entry, the proposal will comprise all the sections of the entry. If you are contributing to an existing entry, include an outline that shows existing sections to be kept or deleted and proposed new sections. The proposal should consist of 4-5 paragraphs written in the user page of each member of the respective group.

Once the group composition is known and the topic you want to work on decided, record (click here to edit) this information below in the Student list section. Do so by using the following format:

#{{User|Your user name}} — {{la|Article title}} — ]

to list links you user name, article title, and your sandbox.

Planning Your Proposal – Questions and Suggestions

• Are there essential subtopics that are not discussed in the existing entry?
• Does the entry present all of the legitimate, research-backed approaches to a particular issue?
• Alternately, the entry might present unsubstantiated opinion or even conspiracy theory as though it were backed by legitimate scholarly research. Can you identify any parts of the entry that should either be removed or require further support through citations?
• Are all of the parts of the entry clearly relevant to the topic?
• Does the entry appropriately link to other Misplaced Pages sites?
• How will you relate your entry to other existing entries?

Support materials

• Advice for choosing articles

Week 5: Getting feedback on the project

In week 5 you will get feedback on your proposals from the instructor on yout talk page. Based on this feedback, you might need to make changes to your proposal or even change the approach of the topic. Once the selection is made, make sure that the links to the article you are working on in the end (added under each group) is still correct.

Weeks 6–13: Your Misplaced Pages entry

Start working on your articles. Compile a bibliography of relevant research and begin reading the sources. Make sure you understand Misplaced Pages policy on referencing How to use RefTools, Referencing in Misplaced Pages and plagiarism Understanding and avoiding plagiarism.

•  Remember to always fill in the edit summary when you make an edit to an article page!'''

Write your contribution in the sandbox and get your group coleagues' feedback on it on the sandbox talk pages. While you can write all your pargraphs in the sandbox and then move the material online, you are also free to move your contributions online in a piecemeal fashion Moving out of your sandbox. If you choose the latter option, make sure you 'copy-paste' the material from the sandbox to the online article (and not 'move it online' or 'cut-paste') so that at the end of the exercise we have access to your entire work in the sandbox. The contribution of each member of the group should be around 2000 words (you can use User:Dr pda/prosesize to help count this). But don't use unnecessary words. Encyclopedias are to be concise. Your work should be online on Misplaced Pages by 18th December.

Support materials

• Using talk pages

Student list

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Group 7

Group 8

Group 9

Group 10