Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing/Events/March23

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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. If you're interested in translating an article from Spanish or Portuguese to English, review the translation instructions before getting started.

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 pre-existing 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 pre-existing 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)

Translation instructions (optional)
A few of the scholars listed under the article worklist section have pre-existing Wikipedia articles on Spanish and Portuguese 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 user (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 a few field-specific articles 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. We welcome contributions across English, Spanish, and Portuguese Wikipedias.

For additional scholarship, please reference the selected bibliography curated by Dr. Federico Navarro on Latin American Writing Studies in Higher Education.

Past spotlights

 * 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

March programming
The CCCC Wikipedia Initiative hosts a monthly CCCCWI Speaker Series event, office hours, and a coffeehouse. 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 1:00pm-2:00pm ET on Twitch where CCCC scholars and/or the CCCC Wikipedian-in-residence will live edit Wikipedia on a different topic focus.

Date: March 17, 2022

Time: 1:00pm-2:00PM (EST)

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CCCCWI Speaker Series: Latin American Writing Studies in Higher Education
This month, Dr. Federico Navarro will share an overview of how post-secondary writing studies have rapidly developed over the last twenty years in Latin America. He will look into the female-dominated field of scholars and scholarship that has shaped writing studies research and practice and the predominant lines of research currently being sought. Finally, he will focus on how the field has been shaped by a history of inequity and segregation, leading to a more critical view of reading, writing, and literacy teaching as research and open-access, multilingual research.

After the talk, participants will be trained on how to edit Wikipedia. There will be opportunities to improve and create Wikipedia articles--in English, Spanish, and Portuguese--related to pivotal scholars and scholarship about Latin American scholars in higher education.

Date: March 31, 2022

Time: 5:00PM-6:30PM (EST)

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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).