Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/American University/Gender, Politics, and Power (Spring 2021)

Students will gain proficiency in concepts central to women's, gender, and sexuality studies while also engaging with scholarly conversations and cultural texts that explore interrelations of gender, politics, and power. With the Wiki Edu project, students will engage in work that helps to advance the cause of equitable representation by developing profile pages for red-linked women, or &quot;Women in Red&quot;.

Week 1
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Week 2
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

'''EDIT -- Wiki Edu has this set up as a blog exercise (weekly) - that's not how we'll do this, but we'll engage these questions in class and Canvas discussions throughout the semester ~Prof. D.~'''

Begin a blog about your experiences''. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, or reflect on the research and writing process. Create at least one blog entry each week during the Wikipedia assignment.''

Week 3
Post to another discussion board on Canvas a general direction in terms of where your interests lie in terms of this project and I'll aim to group folks according to intersecting interests!!

OUR SOURCES TO CHOOSE FROM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Feminists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Activists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_occupation/African-American_suffragists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_occupation/Suffragists

Week 4
Wendi Warren Binford (example)  (Links to an external site.)

Pauline Redmond Coggs (example)  (Links to an external site.)

Edmonia Highgate (example)  (Links to an external site.)

Andrea Ivory (example)

 I recommend that you use our sample articles above . You may also use any other blue-linked woman you come across on the crowd sourced lists I provide below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Feminists (Links to an external site.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Activists (Links to an external site.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_occupation/African-American_suffragists (Links to an external site.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_occupation/Suffragists (Links to an external site.)

So the first slide of the evaluation exercise assignment is not necessary for us since we have preselected options for you to evaluate. Please let me know if you run into any issues with this exercise.

Week 6
OUR SOURCES TO CHOOSE FROM:

NOTE choose a few backups in case you don't find enough info in your research

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Feminists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Activists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_occupation/Suffragists

Week 7
Keeping in mind some of the pointers about paraphrasing and avoiding plagiarism, everyone should write up a few of their sources in the group googledoc. So, you'll be writing in your own words key information that you are getting from your source/s about your person.' GOAL: At least TWO sentences for each individual student, put into the googledoc. 'This can be completed by the end of the weekend, to keep us out of doing work during wellness week!!

As well --- begin to compile a list of &quot;related&quot; wikipedia articles from which your person could be linked TO once the page exists. These establish your person's network, and will be key in driving readership to your pages.

LGBT+ Studies

Women's Studies

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Editing_Wikipedia_Articles_Biographies.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons

Week 9
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Choose whose sandbox your group will be using and post the info at the top of the shared googledoc so that I know where to be looking. You can also use the googledoc as a preliminary planning space regarding who will take care of what and which parts of the profile you'll work on.

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 11
By midnight on Friday please have your drafts ready for peer review in the sandboxes.

Week 12
Guiding frameworkPeer reviews will be assigned on Friday. UPDATE -- By 9am on Wednesday please have your peer reviews completed. Office Hours will also be available Wednesday!

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
 * Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Make any suggested changes, follow up with me in office hours if you have questions!

Week 13
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 14
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

It's the final week to develop your article.


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
 * Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Week 15
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.