This assignment spans Week 3 to Week 6 of the Writing Wikipedia Articles course. This constitutes the main coursework; you should plan to put several hours into this project in the coming weeks. You have a choice of whether you would like to work on an existing Wikipedia article, or start a new one; in either case, your contributions to the article should represent a clear advancement to a higher level on Wikipedia's quality assessment scale.
This assignment spans Week 3 to Week 6 of the Writing Wikipedia Articles course.
You may choose to either:
* By now you have hopefully looked through the [[Wikipedia:Communicate_OER_Content|Communicate OER Content page]] and decided which articles you would most like to work on -whether they exist already or are missing from Wikipedia entirely. (If you prefer, you may work on an article entirely unrelated to education; working on an OER-related article is a suggestion, not a requirement.) If you have not done so already, make a list of these on your [[Help:Using talk pages|talk page]] now. (Share your opinions often on the[[WT:Communicate OER|Communicate OER project talk page]] as well.) Once you have completed the above, choose one of the following assignments:
**'''Selectselect an existing Wikipedia article''' to improve at least one level on the Wikipedia [[WP:WikiProject Wikipedia/Assessment#Quality scale|quality scale]]; or
**'''Startstart a new Wikipedia article''' and bring it to at least "Start" class
* Start taking notes outlining your plans for article improvement on your talk page or in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WMuXQgcwV4 your sandbox].
* If building a new article, start working on it in your sandbox. This can be a basic outline or notes to begin with.
* You have several weeks to complete this task (which should ideally be completed by our final class session, 18/19 June), but plan to spend at least two hours this week wrapping your head around the requirements and your ideas before the next class. You should aim to have accumulated at least 200 edits (changes) as a Wikipedia user by the time you complete this assignment - this may sound like a lot at first, but if you work on your article(s) regularly, they will fly by! You can always see a list of your contributions by clicking the "Contributions" link near the upper right corner of the screen.
