Wikipedia:Meetup/CCCCWI/Resources

Editing resources
Get oriented with Wikipedia editing by exploring our resources below. For more editing resources and tasks, head to WikiProject Writing.

Housekeeping: Choose a username & create an account
Welcome to Wikipedia! Before creating an account, we recommend reviewing WikiProject Writing's information on choosing a username. After creating a username, review Wikipedia's guidelines, policies, and standard practices to get a feel for Wikipedia's editing culture.


 * Choosing a username
 * Create an account
 * Wikipedia guidelines, policies, and standard practices

Getting started: Learn to edit
Check out WikiProject Writing's curated list of recommended sources for editing or join us for our monthly introductory editing workshop. For additional resources including video tutorials and brochures, check out the Wikimedia bookshelf.

Advice for academics: CCCCWI advice manuals & Wikipedia help pages
Check out our curated list of guides for academic editors. We have listed in-house advice manuals and relevant Wikipedia help pages catered to the expert editing experience, as well as style recommendations for different types of articles of interest to the academic community.For more editing tasks, check out the WikiProject Writing open tasks page.

Editing advice

 * CCCCWI Advice Manual: Five Tips for New Academic Wikipedians
 * CCCCWI Advice Manual: Setting Up Your User Page (Tips for setting up your user page as an academic, based on your privacy preferences)
 * CCCCWI Advice Manual: Getting Input From the Community (How to navigate interacting with the talk page, edit requests, places you can go to for help, and resolving disputes)
 * CCCCWI Advice Manual: Creating Article Drafts (Provides three options for drafting new articles or parts of an article)

Style advice

 * CCCCWI Advice Manual: Biographies of academics
 * Notability criteria for academic biographies
 * Notability criteria for academic and technical books
 * CCCCWI Advice Manual: Academic organizations
 * Guide for expert editors learning to navigate Wikipedia's norms and values
 * Wikipedia editing for researchers, scholars, and academics
 * Citing your own work

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Editing activities: WikiProject Writing article lists
In an effort to improve, as well as create, articles that define the fields of rhetoric, composition, technical communication, literacy, and language studies, WikiProject Writing participants have developed a list of articles in need of creation and edits. For more editing tasks, check out the WikiProject Writing open tasks page.


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Vital articles in need of edits
Vital articles are articles deemed most important to improve to the highest quality standard on Wikipedia (featured article status). There are five levels of vital articles categorized by subject. If you find an article you believe could be vital, check the talk page for a banner that mentions whether the subject is vital or not.

General articles in need of improvement
General articles are articles under the scope of WikiProject Writing that need some work. We encourage you to add articles to this along with a note describing how the article can be improved. This can be as simple as mentioning an award a scholar received or restructuring the article for clarity.
 * Academic writing (underdeveloped, needs citation, narrativizing, not sophisticated in approach)
 * African-American Vernacular English (paragraph on Social Context > In Education mentions 1974 CCCC statement on Students’ Right to Their Own Language but needs to be updated and developed)
 * Theodore Baird (only mentioned for his house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright)
 * Collaborative writing (from teaching point of view, underdeveloped)
 * Keith Gilyard (2000 CCCC Chair)
 * Native American rhetoric
 * Elaine Richardson (writer) (Faculty page)
 * Writing studies

See more at Article lists


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Articles in need of creation
Redlinked articles are articles in need of creation on Wikipedia. If you see a topic, figure, concept, etc. that is notable yet does not exist on Wikipedia yet, please do add it to our list along with a short note mentioning a source, award, or anything else that emphasizes the notability of the article.
 * Cultural rhetorics (include Cultural Rhetorics Consortium, Malea Powell)
 * Journal of Writing Research
 * Min-Zhan Lu (faculty page, 2012 CCCC Outstanding Book Award)
 * Beverly J. Moss (faculty page, 2021 CCCC Exemplar Award)
 * Jacqueline Jones Royster (faculty page, 2004 CCCC Exemplar Award, 1995 CCCC Chair)
 * Victor Villanueva (he is mentioned briefly in Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color, include 2009 CCCC Exemplar Awardee)
 * Writing program administration
 * Vershawn Ashanti Young (2020 CCCC Chair)

See more at Article lists


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