Final Project

The Future of Classical Music
Final Project

Groundwork Deadline: Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 11 a.m.

Final Project Deadline: Tuesday, November 25, 2014, 11 a.m.

Groundwork Goals

1. Begin learning how to write for Wikipedia
2. Create and populate your user page
3. Formulate 3 – 5 possible topics for your Final Project
4. Enter your topics on the Class Blog

1. Begin learning how to write for Wikipedia

• Figure out what a “wiki” actually is
• Create your own account on http://wikipedia.org
• Bookmark and read the following:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial

2. Create and populate your user page

• Read:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_page

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_page_design_center

• Create your user page.

NB. The easiest way to accomplish much of the formatting is to copy it from another “Edit” page to your own.

* Place the following links on your watchlist:

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ijmusic/Futureclass

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ijmusic/Vision_of_music's_future

 * Add your name, using 4 tildes (~~~~) to the list of class members at    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ijmusic/Futureclass

* Add some information to your user page, like

• Your musical background and outlook
• The music you are most interested in
• A link to your own home page

* Give each section an appropriate heading

* Add the Longy box if you like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_by_alma_mater:_Longy_School_of_Music

3. Formulate 3 – 5 possible topics for your Final Project

      Wikipedia boasts millions of entries on a variety of topics, but the music of our time needs greater representation. What aspects of your music does it lack? Appropriate definitions? Noted artists? Significant regional developments?

Keeping in mind the Guidelines that you have read, devise 3 – 5 possible entries that you might compose as your Final Project. Wikipedia adheres to strict guidelines: an army of editors patrols daily! They will summarily delete all copyright material, which includes text, music, and pictures copied verbatim from another Web site or book. Articles with only one source are marked for “Speedy Deletion.”

      You will need to document your sources: remember, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, thus, a secondary and tertiary source. When you jump through all the hoops, though, you are rewarded: Immortality!

      Voceditenore has been our angel. Reading and heeding the following information will save you a lot of aggravation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ijmusic/Futureclass

4. Enter your topics to the Class Blog before 11 a.m. on Tuesday, November 4, 2014.

Late entries not accepted.

Final Project

Final Project Deadline: Tuesday, November 25, 2014, 11 a.m.

1. Post to our Wikipedia User page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ijmusic/Futureclass, the link to one or both of the following:

* A new article

* A substantive addition to, or edit of, an existing article

(See also http://www.courses.dce.harvard.edu/~musie145/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Electroclass.)

2. Send me, by e-mail, your list of blog and Wikipedia entries, with URLs.

Late submissions not accepted.