Paper #4

A Contribution to Human Knowledge: Writing an Entry for Wikipedia

Three people collaborate on this paper. It should total about 2100 words.

Your entry can be either a new article on a topic not included, or an expansion and correction of an existing article.

Either way, your product will include not only the research, writing, formatting and editing you carry out to create your entry, but some interaction with other Wikipedians on "Discussion" or "Talk" pages. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:English_Renaissance

Each article must use at least one and preferably more than one source that's not accessed through Google.

Your first article

Article development

Creating an account

Guide to writing better articles

Tutorial on formatting

Citing sources

Uploading images

This year's articles:

  1. Fair trade coffee
  2. Floatopia
  3. The Cal Poly "P"
  4. Mars Desert Research Station
  5. California Coastal Trail
  6. White House Vegetable Garden
  7. Grimmway farms
  8. TOMS shoes
  9. Ziploc
  10. Lost Coast Brewery

Articles from last two years:

  1. Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes
  2. Cal Poly Mustang Band
  3. Bubblegum Alley
  4. Focus the Nation
  5. San Jose Flea Market
  6. Carrizo Plain
  7. Gerry Bertier
  8. Swanton Pacific Ranch

Some special jobs

  1. Wikipedia rules expert
  2. Article format expert
  3. Research expert
  4. Copy editing expert