Credits

Student Work

Dr. DiCaglio would like to thank the students of his Technical and Professional Editing courses at Texas A&M University from 2017–2022, who took his assignment in its slowly evolving forms. This work would not be possible without their work.

Although all work on Wikipedia is public domain, we have attempted to ensure anonymity where possible. We have tried to select examples where students used aliases in their Wikipedia projects and only highlight positive contributions.

The work in this project was cleared through an IRB at Texas A&M University (IRB2020-0591).

Wikipedia and Wiki Education

Thank you to all the Wikipedians who took time out of their schedules to work with my students, often multiple times across many iterations of the course.

Finally, we would like to acknowledge Wiki Education for their outreach to assist educational efforts on Wikipedia.

Reviewers

Thank you to the individuals took the time to review this article in a draft stage:

  • from Texas A&M: Matthew McKinney (who also taught a separate version of this class using an earlier version of the materials in 2020)
  • from the scholarly community: Matthew Vetter (Indiana University at Pennsylvania)
  • from Wiki Education: LiAnna Davis, Ian Ramjan, and Helaine Blumenthal
  • from the Wikipedia community: Lane Rasberry (Bluerasberry)

Authors

Joshua DiCaglio - Primary creator, writer, and teacher as described in this project. Any first person references refer to DiCaglio.

Gwendolyn Inocencio - Assisted with website design and article content.

Jessie Cortez - Assisted with research and article content.

Hannah Mailhos - Assisted with cataloging Wikipedia work and developing pedagogical materials.

Connor Hearron - Assisted with cataloging Wikipedia work and refining pedagogical materials.

We'd love to hear about your use of the assignment materials! Although we do not have time to offer extensive support, we are interested in the long term sustainability of these materials. Be in touch with Joshua DiCaglio about your own projects or if updates are needed to any of the documents (although you're welcome to copy them into your own documents if you'd like to make modifications).