Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Bowling Green State University/Sexuality and Politics (Spring 2019)

The LGBTQ Movement has experienced one of the most remarkable ascendancies in modern civil rights organizing. As late as 2003, ten states criminally sanctioned same-sex sexual behavior while it was legal in more than three-quarters of the states to discriminate in employment, public accommodations, the provision of healthcare and education, family services and adoption, and banking because one was (or was suspected of being) lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer. Yet, by 2015, the United States recognized the legal right of same-sex couples to marry and almost three-quarters of the population live in states that protect residents regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity. What accounts for this remarkable rise? What is the future of LGBTQ rights in the United States and around the world? Throughout this course, we will analyze these two key questions. This course is a survey of the emergence and growth of sexual and gender minority political identity, primarily in the United States. This course focuses on the intersectional nature of socially constructed identities and the effect of intersecting social and political power structures on the LGBTQ Movement, LGBTQ interest groups, and individual LGBTQ political attitudes and behaviors.

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

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.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

What's a content gap?

Exercise
Add a citation

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Week 5
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

LGBT+ Studies

Political Science

Women's Studies

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 6
Guiding framework

Thinking about Wikipedia

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

Week 7
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.

Week 8
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

Nominating your article for Did You Know

Exercise
Add links to your article

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.

Week 10
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!

Week 11
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!

Guiding questions

Week 12
Guiding questions

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