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Past spotlights

 * January 2022: |Global Scholars: Latin America
 * December 2021: Global Scholars - Europe
 * November 2021: Asian/Asian American Scholars/Scholarship
 * October 2021: Defining Disability
 * September 2021: Five Major Fields and Figures
 * May 2021 - August 2021: WikiProject Writing Summer-long Edit-a-thon 
 * April 2021: Spotlight on Rhetorics of Climate Change & Environmental Activism
 * March 2021: Centering BIPOC Women in Writing Studies

Writing recommendations
Find an article you are interested in working on from our article worklist below.

Create achievable goals for the month. Here are a few writing recommendations based on weekly time segments:

''If you have fifteen minutes each week. . .''
 * Add a few citations to an article
 * Update or add a few setences to a biography of an academic
 * Add notable scholarship and resources to the 'See also' section of an article
 * Suggest revisions and point to sources on the talk page

''If you have thirty minutes each week. . .''
 * Expand an article with a new section or a few paragraphs

''If you have an hour or more each week. . .''
 * Draft an article in need of creation and link it to a pre-exisitng high traffic article (redlinks)
 * Restructure a pre-exisiting article (make sure to suggest your revisions on the talk page first!)
 * Translate an article using the Content Translation tool

Translation instructions (optional)
A few of the scholars listed under the article worklist section have pre-existing Wikipedia articles on Spanish, Portuguese, and French, and Basque Wikipedia. If you are interested in translating these articles to live on English Wikipedia, we have listed a few instructions on how to do so using the Content Translation tool*. This tool allows users to easily translate articles by creating a user-friendly side-by-side display and allows you to easily publish or save your article as a draft when you finish. Here's how to access the tool:


 * 1) Log into Wikipedia
 * 2) Click on ‘Beta’ at the top right
 * 3) Scroll down and click on ‘Content Translation’
 * 4) Click on ‘Save changes’ on the bottom of the page to save the tool
 * 5) To start translating an article click on ‘Contributions’ and select ‘Translations’ from the drop down menu

For more information on the Content Translation tool, check out the user manual.

* This tool allows new users to publish translations as a draft on English Wikipedia. If you are an extended confirmed users (accounts at least 30 days old with 500 or more edits), you can automatically publish translations to the English Wikipedia mainspace. We encourage both newcomers and experienced Wikipedians to try it out!

Article worklist
''Alongside each biography of an academic we've suggested one field-specific article and one general interest, vital article to incorporate their scholarship into. Vital articles are lists of subjects for which the English Wikipedia should have corresponding featured-class articles. They serve as centralized watchlists to track the quality status of Wikipedia's most important articles and to give editors guidance on which articles to prioritize for improvement.''

Sign up here
Add your username, goals for article creation, and any specific articles you'll be working on below, alongside your name and a goal or goals you aim to achieve by the end of the month. Additionally, if you plan to collaborate on an article with another participant or participants you may opt to list collaborators and/or invite others to join you.


 * Copy and paste this format and only change what is within the (parentheses). Add this with a new bullet point below the other participants' sign ups:
 * (This month I plan to...)

Resources

 * 1) CCCCWI Advice Manual: Creating article drafts
 * 2) Tutorial on drafting articles
 * 3) CCCCWI Advice Manual: Biographies of academics
 * 4) Wikipedia editing for researchers, scholars, and academics


 * 1) Citing your own work


 * 1) Notability criteria for academic biographies


 * 1) Notability criteria for academic and technical books
 * 1) CCCCWI Advice Manual: Getting Input From the Community

February events & office hours
The CCCC Wikipedia Initiative hosts monthly events & office hours. If you need some help getting started, have specific questions, or would like to find space to work on your article alongside your collaborators, these are great spaces to do so:

CCCCWI Coffeehouse (Streaming on Twitch)

Friday 2/11 and 2/25 @ 1:00pm-3:00PM EST 

Drop-in whenever you'd like on Friday, February 11th and 25th from 1:00pm-3:00pm EST for an informal virtual writing group. A CCCC Graduate Fellow and CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Committee Member will create stub Wikipedia articles via Twitch on Cynthia Self and Cheryl Ball. Although we cannot meet physically, we wish to create a online space where scholars can get together and chat about our work. Whether you are working on a project, plan on adding a few sources to an article, or just want to chat with other scholars, this is a great space to do so.

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Wikipedia as Public Scholarship

Friday 2/4 @ 12:00pm-1:30pm EST

(limited to 10 participants)

This introductory workshop covers editing basics with particular attention to some of the specific concerns experts face on Wikipedia and discussion of how academics can use their expertise to advance knowledge equity online. Topics include navigating privacy issues, concerns around conflict of interest, and strategies for getting started with articles that need a lot of work.

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Getting Started with WikiProject Writing

Friday 2/18 @ 1:30pm-3:00pm EST

(limited to 10 participants)

This workshop introduces WikiProject Writing as a collaborative space for coordinating efforts to improve Wikipedia articles related to our areas of expertise. Topics include defining the scope of WikiProject Writing by tagging articles, directing the priorities of WikiProject Writing by assessing articles, and adding to and working from our list of articles in need of work and creation. --

CCCCWI Office Hours

Mondays & Tuesdays OR by appointment

If you would like to discuss something Wikipedia-related one-on-one or get help with a Wikipedia article you’re working on, please feel free to sign up for my office hours on Mondays and Tuesdays or email me to suggest another time (savannahcragin@berkeley.edu).