Wikipedia:WikiProject Academical Village

Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village plan for the University of Virginia is a World Heritage Site that includes the iconic Rotunda.

WikiProject Academical Village is a WikiProject for the Wikipedia Ambassador Program and school and university projects generally on English Wikipedia, and coordinates online activities among active Wikipedians in the traditional and idiosyncratic WikiProject style.

This effort has been suggested by the volunteer Wikipedia Ambassador Steering Committee (which generally helps United States courses, but is open to general assistance), as a means of increasing thoughtful community communication and participation in these initiatives.

The intention is to take up some of the slack from the relatively inactive WikiProject Classroom coordination, and the somewhat scattered Wikipedia Ambassador Program pages.

Reporting

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Submissions

• Help improve the first edition: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-03-12/Education report

• The report needs to describe to the en:wp community how the Spring semester of the US/Canada educational programs will impact it. Also, any changes that have been made to prevent the problems encountered in the Fall 2011 program should be described.

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom#Proposals
• outreach:Wikipedia Education Program/US-Canada/Updates

Liaisons with other WikiProjects

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Subject Divisions

• Sciences (Subject Division A)

• (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology, Engineering)
• 2012 Q1/Q2 courses: Toxic Futures, Industrial Psychology, Research in Pesonality, Organic Chemistry SSG, Sustainable Systems in Developing Countries, Language Development, Ethical Issues in Public Health Genetics

• Humanities (Subject Division B)

• (Policy/Politics, Arts, Society)
• 2012 Q1/Q2 courses: Intro to American Political Thought, Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Sport in Society, Media and Communication in the Arab World, Embattled Media: Conflict and War Journalism, Art and Ethics, Film Theory in the Age of New Media, Communication Technology and Organizations, Criminal Process, Development Economics, International Economic Strategy and Trade Policy, Telecommunication Policy Analysis, American Political System, Training Systems, ITEC 584: Tourism Information Technology Issues, Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities, Poverty, Gender, and Human Development, Political Research Seminar, Cyberlaw, Introduction to American Politics, Intro to Dramatic Lit (Leigh Clemons), Introduction to Poetry

• Media (Subject Division C)

• (English/Composition, New Media)
• 2012 Q1/Q2 courses: Technical Writing, HUM 102, Copyright Commerce and Culture, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, The Social Web, Leadership Communication, Teaching With Technology, Introduction to Digital Literacies, Writing and Rhetoric II, Wiki-Project Management, Advanced Media Studies, Writing: The Editing Process, Rhetoric and Composition, Information Fluency, INFX 571 Research Seminar

Types of online work

• Maintenance of course pages
• Templates
• Peer reviews and ratings
• DYKs
• Multimedia integration
• Advanced Article / GA / FA Team
• Lists of lists of lists of lists of relevant stubs

Regional activities

• Region 1

• 2012 Q1/Q2 courses: Intro to American Political Thought

• Region 2

• 2012 Q1/Q2 courses: Toxic Futures, Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Technical Writing, HUM 102, Copyright Commerce and Culture, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, The Social Web, Introduction to Poetry
• 2012 Q3/Q4: Women in Religious Traditions, Death & Afterlife: Islam, Online Communities, Women and American Politics, Freshman Composition, Discover New York, Readings in Environmental Studies, Great Ideas in the name of Public Health

• Region 3

• 2012 Q1/Q2 courses: Sport in Society, Media and Communication in the Arab World, Embattled Media: Conflict and War Journalism, Art and Ethics, Film Theory in the Age of New Media, Communication Technology and Organizations

• Region 4

• 2012 Q1/Q2 courses: Leadership Communication

• Region 5a

• 2012 Q1/Q2 courses: Industrial Psychology, Teaching With Technology, Introduction to Digital Literacies, Writing and Rhetoric II, Criminal Process, Development Economics, International Economic Strategy and Trade Policy

• Region 5b

• 2012 Q1/Q2 courses: Telecommunication Policy Analysis, Wiki-Project Management, American Political System, Research in Pesonality, Organic Chemistry SSG, Sustainable Systems in Developing Countries, Advanced Media Studies, Writing: The Editing Process

• Region 6

• 2012 Q1/Q2 courses: Rhetoric and Composition, Training Systems, ITEC 584: Tourism Information Technology Issues

• Region 7

• 2012 Q1/Q2 courses: Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities, Poverty, Gender, and Human Development, Intro to Dramatic Lit (Leigh Clemons)

• Region 8

• 2012 Q1/Q2 courses: Political Research Seminar

• Region 9

• 2012 Q1/Q2 courses: Language Development, INFX 571 Research Seminar, Ethical Issues in Public Health Genetics

• Region 10

• 2012 Q1/Q2 courses: Information Fluency, Cyberlaw, Introduction to American Politics

Requests

Educational peer review

The goal of an educational peer review is to assess the organizing structure of the course, its relative progress, and its fitness to the wiki model, in the light of student contributions so far. The *participation log for course participants* link at the top of each course page may be useful in evaluating contributions, even when the course page itself is not well organized.

Such is a review is a snapshot in time (a "flash-ambassadorship"), and multiple snapshots by multiple reviewers over time may be most beneficial. However, priority should be given to reviewing courses which have had a relative lack of attention from Online Ambassadors and experienced Wikipedians.

It is recommended you review the course pages, and look at the instructor's and students' talk pages. See if the course design is missing any elements you consider useful, what could be confusing or simplified, is something being done wrong, has the course run into any troubles (AfDs), and so on. Offer friendly, respectful and constructive advise.

In future, to be sorted by the three #Subject Divisions:

• Category:Educational peer review requests (0 awaiting review)
• Category:Educational peer review (4 completed reviews)

Project pages to be consolidated

• Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Steering Committee
• outreach:Regional Ambassadors/Current

Project pages to be checked

• Sort this semester's courses by three major subject divisions

• Done! See #Subject Divisions.--Pharos (talk) 20:01, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Academical_Village/Online Ambassador Selection Process
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Academical Village/Online Ambassador Census (be counted!)

Feature/Template requests

• It would be good to restore to the cousepage template the tool which gives a log of all recent contribs by course participants.--Pharos (talk) 15:19, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

• Done! Though the solution with Template:Course page/Tabs could be prettier.--Pharos (talk) 20:02, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

• It would be good if the coursepage displayed the university name, rather than it just being hidden in the template.--Pharos (talk) 15:19, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

• It would be good if the coursepage wizard was by default set to the current semester with the standard name, because everyone tends to write the semester name differently.--Pharos (talk) 15:19, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Unfortunately, there is no "standard name". While most colleges in America do have the first and second terms in the fall and spring, with one or more summer semesters, there are many American colleges that stagger semesters. For instance, one college has a semester that runs April to December and a second semester that overlaps it from July to February, along with an "off" semester running December through April. I thought I'd seen everything until I ran into that one. (I don't remember the exact months they used, but the concept is what I'm trying to convey). Rob SchnautZ (WMF) ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:33, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

I've tried to split the difference by designating a deliberately broadly-defined "Spring/Summer 2012 semesters" listing at Online Ambassador Census.--Pharos (talk) 09:42, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

• Do we want to port over the Campus Ambassador pages as well? Epistemophiliac (talk) 14:37, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

• An educational peer review system led by OAs would be good, I've started with an {{edu review}} template intended for this.--Pharos (talk) 10:29, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

• Added {{Edu reviewed}} and Category:Educational peer review.--Pharos (talk) 16:10, 9 April 2012 (UTC)