Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing/Events/April&May23

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Citation equity & justice
In the CCCC Position Statement on Citation Justice in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies, writing scholars are called to recognize that “citation is not only a way we build ethos and credibility for making arguments, but perhaps more importantly, a decision to amplify some voices over others, and an argument about whose voices and perspectives are valid, credible, and worth drawing from as we build knowledge in the discipline.” As a highly viewed, global, open-access, digital encyclopedia, Wikipedia stands out as one of the most vital platforms scholars can edit to support citation justice, especially for academics committed to knowledge equity as a fundamental groundwork for social justice.

When writing in citations and content that represent the diversity of fields and subfields in writing studies, we encourage scholars to practice the following heuristic put forth by the CCCC Position Statement on Citation Justice in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies:


 * Citation justice is intersectional.
 * Citation justice reflects the full scope of multiply marginalized people’s intellectual contributions.
 * Citation justice resists and rejects intellectual empire building.
 * Citation justice is accountable.

Get started
After logging in or creating an account and signing in to our event dashboard, complete these steps to begin:

Step One: Head to our article worklist to find an article you'd like to work on.

Step Two: Create achievable goals for the month by reviewing our writing recommendations section.

Step Three: Use our editing resources section to help create a draft, assess notability, find sources, and/or request feedback.

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 a draft article
 * Add a few selected publications or notable awards to a biography of an academic
 * Suggest revisions and point to sources on the talk page

''If you have thirty minutes each week. . .''
 * Expand a stub 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 (redlinks)

Article worklist
This month we are referencing the CCCC position statements on Social and Linguistic Justice and Antiracist Pedagogies to incorporate scholars and scholarship into relevant articles on anti-racism and racial justice in writing studies.

Below we have listed individual position statements with a suggested vital and field-specific article that would benefit from that statement. We encourage you to explore the diversity of scholarship referenced in each position statement, alongside the suggested articles, scholars, and scholarship we have compiled. For additional references, please check out Dr. Christopher Castillo's bibliography for his presentation on "Burning our Fingers: An Intersectional Grapple with The Steel Cage of Racism."

* Vital articles are articles deemed most important by the Wikipedia editing community to improve to the highest content quality standard.

Past spotlights

 * March 2023: '''Latin American Writing Studies in Higher Education
 * February 2023: '''Genres of Memory and Asian/American Activism
 * December 2022-January 2023: '''Winter Holiday Editing Adventure
 * November 2022: Multilingual Writers in Digital Space
 * October 2022: Disability in the Rhetoric and Writing Classroom
 * September 2022: Spotlight on University Writing Programs
 * Summer 2022: Summer-long Edit-a-thon on Literacy
 * May 2022: Asian/American and Pacific Islander Heritage
 * April 2022: Spotlight on Global & Non-Western Rhetorics
 * March 2022: Learning Transfer in Writing Studies
 * February 2022: Digital Composition
 * 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
 * Summer 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

Get help
Feeling stuck or need help getting started? Follow these steps (in order):
 * Check our resources page for general advice, editing resources, and other useful information
 * Ask a question on our discussion page
 * Contact Breadyornot or sign up for their office hours

April programming
The CCCC Wikipedia Initiative hosts monthly workshops, office hours, and coffeehouses. 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)
Curious about how different people navigate editing Wikipedia? Drop-in whenever you'd like from 11:00am-12:00am ET on Twitch where the CCCC Wikipedian-in-residence will live edit Wikipedia on a different topic focus.

Date: April 20, 2023

Time: 11:00AM-12:00PM (ET)

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CCCCWI Speaker Series: Anti-Racism and Racial Justice in Writing Studies
This month, Dr. Chistopher Castillo will present on "Burning our Fingers: An Intersectional Grapple with the Steel Cage of Racism." This talk uses the story of a racist encounter and its aftermath to draw attention to the racialized emotions that circulate in professional academic spaces (including writing programs, graduate programs, and departments) that must be addressed as part of anti-racist efforts. Highlighting both the harm done by what the speaker refers to as “racist fuck ups” and the habits of dialogue and self-reflection that make accountability possible in harm's aftermath, the speaker suggests that consistent attention to the emotional valence of racism and anti-racist work will better equip writing studies to confront its investments in institutional white supremacy.

After the talk, participants will be trained on how to edit Wikipedia. There will be opportunities to improve and create Wikipedia articles related to pivotal scholars and scholarship on anti-racism and racial justice in writing studies.

Date: April 27, 2023

Time: 4:00PM-5:30PM (ET)

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CCCCWI Office Hours
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 or email me to suggest another time (savannahcragin@berkeley.edu).