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Wikipedia Assignment for "Pre-Hispanic Mexico and Central America" (ANTH 506) - Fall 2024

Your assignment, due by 5 pm on Friday, November 22, is to make a meaningful contribution of at least 1000 words (not counting the code that includes relevant hyperlinks) to Wikipedia in the form of either a new article relevant to the theme of the archaeology of pre-Hispanic Mexico and Central America or a revision of an existing article on a relevant topic. This can be an article about the topic on which you will be writing your term paper or any other related topic that we have discussed during the semester. I strongly recommend revising an existing article, but creation of a new article is acceptable if you would like to tackle that. The power of Wikipedia is in your hands and what you choose to do and how much time you want to spend on it is completely up to you. You will be able to get a good overview of approaches to the topic by reviewing the Wikipedia:WikiProject Mesoamerica (WP:MESO), itself an excellent online guide to resources on the archaeology of Mesoamerica.

Please note that this is an assignment similar to ones I have used in my other courses. Please see the links below for examples of Wikipedia articles created by other KU students.

Your article and/or editing should be in the style of current Wikipedia content, including relevant headings and subheadings, hyperlinks, and (especially) references. It will be graded on the basis of overall appearance as well as the value of its content and the degree to which it contributes to the value of the resource. Please note that you are NOT required to include digital images, although you are encouraged to do so if you are comfortable with the necessary permissions and procedures. The value of your contribution will depend not only on the information content you provide, but how well it is integrated into Wikipedia via hyperlinked text. (This part is very important!) If you create a new article, please note that it is good procedure to make minor edits to other existing entries so that they link back to your own entry when it ultimately goes "live".

Please use this space for asking any questions you might have about the assignment. I'll answer if I can, but there may also be some answers from others. Please remember to sign your posts by adding four tildes to the end!

Getting Started

To begin this assignment, you must first login to Wikipedia with a valid user account. Please click on the "Create account" link in the upper right-hand corner to begin. Once you have chosen a userid and password and logged in to Wikipedia, please edit your userpage (by clicking on your username) and add a few sentences about yourself.

If you are editing an existing Wikipedia article, please add a hyperlink to your userpage to identify it. I will provide comments and answer questions on your own talk page. Please be sure to check the talk page of the article for past and new comments from others about the editing of the article. Note that any changes you make will be logged along with your username if you have correctly signed in to Wikipedia.

If you want to develop a new Wikipedia article for this assignment (on a topic that does not yet exist in Wikipedia), please set up a dedicated user subpage for it and save the link on your main userpage. You would do this by creating a name consisting of a backslash followed by the proposed article title (or "Draft" or any text). It should be coded like this: [[/Article title]]. Click on that link to create the new subpage, which will be created at User:Username/Article title. You can then add some text, save it, and then continue.

For convenience, you can transclude your working draft subpage onto your main userpage so it's visible from there by adding [[User:Username/Article title]] to the main userpage somewhere.

For references, it is best to start out using the particular referencing system wikipedia calls WP:CITESHORT. You can then build a separate bibliography of sources towards the end of the article (in a separate section called either "References" or "Bibliography". Within the body of the text itself, you can then cite individual statements with shortened cites that correspond to some entry in the bibliography. This is easily done by adding cites in the form of <ref>Smith 2008, p.123</ref> after the statement to be cited.

When your assignment is complete and ready to be graded, please notify me of that via email.

Articles Created and Edited by KU Students in Previous Courses

Thematic Articles (ANTH 507 "The Ancient Mayas")

Biographical Articles

Wikipedia Assignment for "How to Find a Lost City" (ANTH 177) - Fall 2022

Your assignment, due by 5 pm on Friday, December 2, is to make a meaningful contribution of at least 1000 words (not counting the code that includes relevant hyperlinks) to Wikipedia in the form of either a new article relevant to the theme of the lost city in archaeology, literature, film, video games, etc. (for students in ANTH 177) or a revision of an existing article on a relevant topic. This can be an article on the "lost city" about which you have written (for students in ANTH 177) or the paper on an aspect of pseudoarchaeology (for students in ANTH 212), or any other related topic that we have discussed during the semester. I strongly recommend revising an existing article, but creation of a new article is definitely acceptable if you want to tackle that. The power of Wikipedia is in your hands and what you choose to do and how much time you want to spend on it is completely up to you.

Please note that this is an assignment similar to ones I have used in my other courses. Please see the links below for examples of Wikipedia articles created by other KU students.

Your article and/or editing should be in the style of current Wikipedia content, including relevant headings and subheadings, hyperlinks, and (especially) references. It will be graded on the basis of overall appearance as well as the value of its content and the degree to which it contributes to the value of the resource. Please note that you are NOT required to include digital images, although you are encouraged to do so if you are comfortable with the necessary permissions and procedures. The value of your contribution will depend not only on the information content you provide, but how well it is integrated into Wikipedia via hyperlinked text. (This part is very important!) If you create a new article, please note that it is good procedure to make minor edits to other existing entries so that they link back to your own entry when it ultimately goes "live".

Please use this space for asking any questions you might have about the assignment. I'll answer if I can, but there may also be some answers from others. Please remember to sign your posts by adding four tildes to the end!

Getting Started

To begin this assignment, you must first login to Wikipedia with a valid user account. Please click on the "Create account" link in the upper right-hand corner to begin. Once you have chosen a userid and password and logged in to Wikipedia, please edit your userpage (by clicking on your username) and add a few sentences about yourself.

If you are editing an existing Wikipedia article, please add a hyperlink to your userpage to identify it. I will provide comments and answer questions on your own talk page. Please be sure to check the talk page of the article for past and new comments from others about the editing of the article. Note that any changes you make will be logged along with your username if you have correctly signed in to Wikipedia.

If you want to develop a new Wikipedia article for this assignment (on a topic that does not yet exist in Wikipedia), please set up a dedicated user subpage for it and save the link on your main userpage. You would do this by creating a name consisting of a backslash followed by the proposed article title (or "Draft" or any text). It should be coded like this: [[/Article title]]. Click on that link to create the new subpage, which will be created at User:Username/Article title. You can then add some text, save it, and then continue.

For convenience, you can transclude your working draft subpage onto your main userpage so it's visible from there by adding [[User:Username/Article title]] to the main userpage somewhere.

For references, it is best to start out using the particular referencing system wikipedia calls WP:CITESHORT. You can then build a separate bibliography of sources towards the end of the article (in a separate section called either "References" or "Bibliography". Within the body of the text itself, you can then cite individual statements with shortened cites that correspond to some entry in the bibliography. This is easily done by adding cites in the form of <ref>Smith 2008, p.123</ref> after the statement to be cited.

When your assignment is complete and ready to be graded, please notify me of that via email.

User talk:Hoopes

Wikipedia Assignment for "Pre-Hispanic Mexico and Central America" (ANTH 506) - Fall 2024

Getting Started

Articles Created and Edited by KU Students in Previous Courses

Thematic Articles (ANTH 507 "The Ancient Mayas")

Biographical Articles

Wikipedia Assignment for "How to Find a Lost City" (ANTH 177) - Fall 2022

Getting Started

Articles Created by KU Students in Previous Courses

Thematic Articles (ANTH 410 "Archaeological Myths & Realities)

Thematic Articles (ANTH 507 "The Ancient Mayas")

Thematic Articles (ANTH 603 "Shamanism Past & Present")

Biographical Articles (from ANTH 500, ANTH 507, and ANTH 701)