Africa Growth Pilot/Online self-paced course/Module 3
This page is for drafting and honing scripts for the various units in Module 3: Wikipedia's Voice: a tutorial on Neutral Point of View.
Module goal
[edit]The module aims to introduce learners to the concept of "Wikipedia's Voice", the encyclopedic tone Wikipedia should be written in. Various aspects of neutrality are explained and demonstrated, and practiced through exercises.
Units
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Below are transcriptions of the live session where this module was taught in Phase 1 of the Africa Growth Pilot, divided into short units by topic. The session was accompanied by the slides linked here on the right.
You are welcome to review and edit the scripts for the various units, so that they are the best they can be for self-paced online learning.
| Unit # | Unit title | Slide # | Link to script | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What is NPOV? | 5–6 | script | In review |
| 2 | NPOV opening exercise | 7 | script | In review |
| 3 | Wikipedia's Voice | 8–9 | script | In review |
| 4 | Who is the best football player of all time? | 10–12 | script | In review |
| 5 | Example: describing greatness neutrally using relevant opinions | 13–15 | script | In review |
| 6 | (Questions on citations and sources -- keep?) | 15 | script | In review |
| 7 | Achieving NPOV: Overview | 16–17 | script | In review |
| 8 | Encyclopedic prose is fair and accurate | 18–19 | script | In review |
| 9 | Achieving NPOV | 20 | script | In review |
| 10 | Avoiding puffery | 21 | script | In review |
| 11 | Avoiding emotive language | 22 | script | In review |
| 12 | Avoiding weasel words | 23 | script | In review |
| 13 | Avoiding implication | 24 | script | In review |
| 14 | Avoiding euphemisms and idioms | 25 | script | In review |
| 15 | Avoiding contentious labels | 26 | script | In review |
| 16 | Neutrality about controversy | 27–28 | script | In review |
| 17 | Examples of covering controversy | 29–30 | script | In review |
| 18 | Writing for the world | 31–32 | script | In review |
| 19 | Avoiding undue weight - part 1 | 33–35 | script | In review |
| 20 | Avoiding undue weight - part 2 | 35–36 | script | In review |
| 21 | Exercises: Neutral or not? (to be turned into learner exercises) | 37–39 | script | In review |
| 22 | Exercise: Rewrite into neutrality 1 | 40 | script | In review |
| 23 | Exercise: Rewrite into neutrality 2 | 40 | script | In review |
| 24 | Exercise: Rewrite into neutrality 3 | 41 | script | In review |
| 25 | Exercise: Rewrite into neutrality 4 | 41 | script | In review |
| 26 | Written assignment (to be turned into further exercises) and conclusion | 42–47 | script | In review |