Wikipedia:Writing Wikipedia Articles course/Teams

	Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond
	a free six week course

Course Teams

For the Writing Wikipedia Articles course, students will divide themselves into teams of about four.

Do this:

• Introduce yourself to your teammates, by writing a couple sentences about yourself below. Copy the format of the instructors' entries to insert your username, etc. You might consider addressing (A) What are you hoping to get out of this course? and (B) Have you ever edited an article on Wikipedia (or another wiki)?
• Connect with your team. It's up to you how extensively you want to interact, and what tools you want to use. We suggest the following as a minimum; but feel free to explore other options if you are finding your teammates helpful!
  • Connect initially by email; you can email another user by visiting clicking his or her name, and then clicking "email this user" in the lefthand navigation.
  • Choose a team name, and replace "Team X" with your name!
  • Every week, share something you've done, or learned about, in your homework with each other.
  • As you get more comfortable on Wikipedia, use each other's user talk pages. You can also use Twitter, IRC, or even get together on your own time using a tool like Google Hangout.
• Consider this section your team's own space to use as you see fit. If you can think of something helpful to to add to this page…do it!

Instructors

Pete Forsyth

Peteforsyth (talk · contribs)

I am the course instructor. I have been a Wikipedia contributor since 2006, and teaching others to do so in various contexts for most of that time. I am serving as Project Lead for Communicate OER. You can learn more about me at my web site:http://wikistrategies.net/pete-forsyth

Sara Frank Bristow

Snarfa (talk · contribs)

Hi! I'm the WIKISOO course coordinator. I am mainly an e-learning researcher, focusing on K-12, higher education and informal learning. I'm very interested in open educational resources and wikis in general, and have been editing Wikipedia since 2006 myself (primarily wrt grammar until ~2010). I'm proud to be project manager for Communicate OER. My twitter handle is @SalientResearch.

Team 1 OER growth

Trish Loeblein

I hope to learn more in order to help grow OER articles. Last round was my first introduction to Wikipedia; I had done some light use for finding information previously. In particular, the PhET Interactive Simulations and National Digital Science Library. I am a member of the PhET team and helped with the PhET article which was accepted last round. Patricia.Loeblein (talk) 15:08, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

What's the best way for us to connect as a team? Jg1141 (talk) 21:34, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

I made a section on the Wikipedia talk:School of Open course called "Team OER Discussion space". Do you like this idea? Email seemed to be a bit difficult.Rosemary and I had a Skype meeting that was very helpful. I will be at the class and lab this week, but then I will be teaching classes during the mornings starting 8/19, so I will be going asynchronous. Trish Patricia.Loeblein (talk) 18:23, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry I missed class 2. It turns out that when I am at school (a Colorado High school) that Blackboard is blocked as well as Skype. I guess I am going asynchronous earlier than I thought. Please continue to contact me via email, my talk page, or the class talk page under OER Team. I would be able to skype afternoon Colorado time. Trish Patricia.Loeblein (talk) 16:03, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Rosemary Powers

I teach sociology at a small rural state university in Oregon, and am interested in learning how to edit Wikipedia primarily for exploring he potential of having students engage in this kind of writing. I am just completing a sabbatical year and will be returning to Oregon the end of this month. I don't have a preference for any specific article or area to explore for the course. User talk:Socimag

Oliver Zhu

Ozhu (talk · contribs)

I'm a software engineer from the Silicon Valley and a chronic slacker. I'm interested in learning some more about the mechanics of editing Wikipedia, collaborating and interacting with other Wikipedians, and understanding a bit about how Wikipedia works.

I won't be able to make it to the live sessions, but I'll revisit them when they are released. You can reach me on my WP talk page or on twitter @olzhu.

John Graves

Jg1141 (talk · contribs)

I am PhD Student at AUT University in Auckland, New Zealand and founder of SlideSpeech:http://slidespeech.com

It can be difficult for me to participate synchronously. See my time (NZST) here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=22 Jg1141 (talk) 04:36, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Team Fabulous

Sky Swartout

Acrolith (talk · contribs)

New Wikipedia editor, I am a trained art historian with an MA from NYU's Institute of Fine Arts. I hope to contribute to a wide range of articles.

Margaret Mulligan

TechProfWriter (talk · contribs)

I am an online graduate instructor (adjunct faculty), at Northeastern University, CPS. I teach Introduction to Technical and Professional Writing. I have a strong interest in collaborative writing and tools.

Marie-Laure Le Guen

Hardcorekancil (talk · contribs)
Books, travel and languages are my life-long passions. You can find some of my writing in French at Mon Impatriation and in English at Open4learning.
I hope to get to know other Wikipedians and learn the basics of editing Wikipedia so as to contribute to this amazing community.

I'm interested in writing an article on the Bengali-language online education platform Shikkhok which received Google Rise, BOB and Isif Asia awards..

Kimberly Springer

thekimbos (talk · contribs)

I'm a master's degree student in the University of Michigan's School of Information, specializing in social computing and archives/records management. I'm hoping to learn more about using Wikipedia to help cultural heritage organizations exhibit online and expand their web presence. So far, I've participated in a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for the Smithsonian Institution Archives' Field Notes Project.

Jackson Peebles

Jackson Peebles (talk · contribs)
I have been a reviewer, rollbacker, and even course instructor on Wikipedia for a little while now, but I deal almost exclusively with the adopt-a-user program and counter-vandalism. I would really like to get into some real content creation, but I've stuck with what I (think that I) am good at. It's time to get out of my comfort zone.

Team Europe

Glen Gatin ggatin (talk) 15:55, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

ggatin on Twitter and Skype -- Online mentor for doctoral elearning program. Teaching ejournalism courses for a land based university. Generally interested in digital humanities and emergent theories of collective social behavior on the internet.

Rocio Moreno

orangeabundance

I am a IT Developer from Madrid-Spain with much more interests like Botanical Medicine Herbs, New Era matters,Astronomy,Computers Language, eLearning like edX and Coursera,etc. I have a degree in Math-Statistics and IT Developer(Java, CSharp, etc.), MBA (Master in Business Administration), Master in Digital Marketing and Community Manager. 12 years of experience in Marketing in a Spaniard Satellite TV Teleco Business Group and before 5 years in the Financial Department in a Banking Institution. I can collaborate in English and Spanish articles.

Marshall Dozier

mafrado Librarian in UK, interested in digital education, information behaviour, virtual worlds, academic libraries, scholarly publishing, evidence based medicine. I'd like to 'get inside' wikipedia as part of exploring whether to give my students an assignment based on making contributions. I've never edited wikipedia before, though have used less high-stakes wikis :-)

User:Litjade (talk)

Hello to Glen and Team Europe! I'm a continuing student from Round 2 of this course, interested in building up the Reference section in Wikipedia articles as well as editing. The past several days I started working on the article Mobile entertainment and will post more about it on the class talk page. I'd be happy for anyone's help on this one!

Team Ecuador

Tanuyeiro (talk) 18:23, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Vahid Masrour

Geek wannabe, in love with the potential of EdTech to change education (and educational systems), and noob editor. Pretty active on Google Plus +Vahid Masrour Currently residing in Ecuador.

DianGabi (talk) 21:02, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

I believe knowledge should be open to all to both who use it and contribute it

Cammie

I enjoy trivia and I'm also trying to study to get into grad school while working and residing in Southern California. I see Wikipedia as a great opportunity to use research and writing skills. Hoping to experience crowd sourcing in action with a supportive team.

I've been on Wikipedia for several months and have done simple edits consisting of typos, citations, and adding external and/or reference links.00:15, 9 August 2013 (UTC)Camellia wagashi (talk)

Team Ecuador 2

CRISTHIAN

--CrisjasPache (talk) 03:08, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Ing.Sistemas Informaticos and Lover to study new trends in the field of technology

Iwan Setiawan

stwn (talk · contribs)

I am EE/CE lecturer at Jenderal Soedirman University, Purwokerto, Indonesia and a Free Software supporter. I have some experience in trivial editing of Wikipedia(-like) articles. I want to learn more about how the Wikipedia actually works, and how I could help building and contributing to it by really involved in it.

Abhisek Sanyal

Abhisek Sanyal (talk · contribs)

I am a software tester by profession and spend my free time reading, hacking and coding. I had got a wikipedia t-shirt from FOSS.IN conference a couple of years ago and now I am looking at earning the right to wear it.
I do spend an enormous amount of time on wikipedia reading on subjects like computers, networks, security, history and tv series / movies.

From this course, I hope to gain confidence to contribute to the topics that I keep reading on.
I use my organization's internal wiki extensively though the user interface and approach seems quite different.

Team Ecuador 3

n1ckzero (talk · contribs)

I'm a High school teacher, apps tester and I like to solve logic problems. I have edited a few words here and I write some articles in another posts. I hope to learn a few things and do a complete article.

madamemina (talk · contribs)

I'm a lawyer, currently working in GADS public policy and also do digital Teaching of Literacy. I hope to learn a lot of tips to edit in Wikipedia and be part of the team.

Terese Bird tbirdcymru

tbirdcymru (talk · contribs)

I am a learning technologist at the University of Leicester, UK. I have been interested in the open education and open educational resources movement for some years, and this led me to examine Wikipedia as kind of the ultimate big OER. I have contributed tiny bits to Wikipedia so far on topics related to a history OER project I have recently worked on, and also wrote a very short article about my department at the university, having 'declared my interest' on my user page but I definitely need more instruction and so am really looking forward to this course (is this a MOOC?).

Sarah

SarahGWiki (talk · contribs)

I'm Sarah, the Scholarly Content Officer at the OpenUCT initiative based in Cape Town, South Africa. I have been interested in interacting more with Wikipedia for a while and this class is my first step towards achieving that.

Team 7, Jesmion

Student 1, Jesmion

hi co-scholars and lecturers, iam jesmion, from, Uruagu Umudioka, dunukofia local government, Hebo, biafra nigeria, a student of p2pu, am interested in collaboratives, am liberal even generous as if iam OPEN, yet p2pu is OPEN for sundries, am an Organizer at, p2pu-religion: p2pu.org/en/courses/475 'chikwudi.wordpress.com' iam very happy to be a part of you in the online education for better achievement, i will be happy to share every bits of good acquirement from the field of online education, regards, your's Jesmion Chikwudi (talk) 21:31, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

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Team 8

Student 1

hi! It's a pleasure to intouch with you, am jesmion, from Uruagu Umudioka, Dunukofia local governmet, Hebo, biafra nigeria, west africa, iam very happy to be a part of you in the online education for better achievement, i will be happy to share every bit of good acquirement from the field of online education, yours: Jesmion -- 197.210.248.42 (talk) 02:53, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

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hi! am grateful to introduce myself to you, and aims to introduce not only myself but my learning profiles, thanks-- 41.206.11.6 (talk) 00:14, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

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Team 10

=== Paul Barron ===[edit] Barronpb (talk · contribs) I am the director of the library at the George C. Marshall Foundation in Lexington, Virginia. My interests are U.S. post-World War II diplomatic history and K-12 and higher ed information literacy, especially the use of Wikipedia by students. My goal is to learn how to use Wikipedia more effectively to educate an information and digitally literate student.

TShimp

I'm a community college instructor in Communication Studies. In this course, I'm hoping to develop some skills working with Wikipedia "behind the scenes" and contributing to Wiki pages, which I have never done before.

John Alex Hebert

Huangpo (talk · contribs)

Hello! I'm a former IT professional making a career change to contribute back to the open source movement. I've made a few minor edits to Wikipedia and would like to learn more. I'm interested in history, science and current events.

Ryan Guy

My name is Ryan and I am originally from Southern California. These days I teach Argumentation and Debate and coach forensics at California State University Chico. I have dabbled with Wikipedia in the past but have been hesitant to do any serious editing. I want to get comfortable with the process and brain storm some ideas for using Wikipedia editing in the classes I teach.

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