The grad project for Cartography & GIS is producing a web page on some aspect of cartography or GIS for Wikipedia. The following are Wiki pages that were put together by students in this course:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thematic_map
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands_stick_chart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthophoto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS_and_Hydrology
Like these examples, your contribution should follow the Wikipedia guidelines, be formatted properly, include a "See also" list, references, a listing of categories, and at least three illustrations.
The formatting is relatively straight-forward and you can use one of the pages above as a template. You'll need to work through the copyright restrictions on illustrations and deal with any the online editors that will inevitably find your page and make suggestions for improvement. If you don't follow their suggestions, the page can be removed.
The first step is to think of a topic. Then, look at the cartography category:
and the GIS category
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Geographic_Information_Systems
to see if an article has already been entered on that topic. Also, check with me to see if the topic is doable.
Following this, you would do your research and write the article. This should be submitted four weeks prior to the last day of class.. Submit the article first to me as a Microsoft Word document. I will provide comments and return with corrections by two weeks before the last day of class. The corrections need to be completed and the Wikipedia page created by the last day of class.