Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Fort Lewis College/SOC 350 (Spring 2019)

During this project, you will be participating in the Art+Feminism campaign, which aims to improve coverage of cis and transgender women, non-binary folks, feminism and the arts on Wikipedia.

You will meet with Social Science Librarian Rosalinda Linares for three library sessions. In the first library session, you will learn more about editing Wikipedia from a feminist perspective and develop sound research strategies for finding, evaluating, and using biographical sources. In the second library session, you will edit the Wikpedia articles of a person you have chosen based on individual research you've done on a particular cis or transgender woman and/or gender/sexual minority of your choice.

Your final assignment for this project will be the following:


 * 1) Add at least 3 sentences to your assigned article, and cite each statement to a reliable source
 * 2) Add at least 2 additional citations to existing statements in your assigned article

Week 3
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

By the library session on Thursday, January 24th, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

In our first library session on Thursday, January 24th, we will go over the basics of Wikipedia, including editing articles and policies. We will also practice evaluating articles.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Week 7
Before our library session on Thursday, February 28th, complete the following assignment:


 * 1) Pick your article
 * 2) Complete the SOC 350 Wikipedia Pre-assignment. You will be asked to provide the following:
 * 3) Your name
 * 4) Your Wikipedia username
 * 5) Your Wikipedia article title &amp; url
 * 6) A short statement on why you chose your article, and what you want to edit or change and why

Week 8

 * Get in a group with the classmates in your row.
 * Come up with a team name!
 * Write your answers to the Wikipedia Editing Review.

By the beginning of our library session on Thursday, February 28th, everyone will have chosen an article to edit and completed the pre-assignment

In our second library session on Thursday, February 28th, we will explore sources related to biographical research. You may bring your personal laptop to class, and/or/also we will have access to desktop computers in RL 131

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 10
Contact your librarian, Rosalinda Linares, rhlinares@undefinedfortlewis.edu, if you have any questions

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Art History

Biographies

LGBT+ Studies

Sociology

Women's Studies

Week 11
Come to class on Thursday, March 28th prepared to copmlete the following assignment:


 * Add at least 3 sentences to your assigned article, andcite each statement to a reliable source
 * Add at least 2 additional citations to existing statements in your assigned article

By the beginning of our library session on 3/28, you will have a draft of your sentence contributions and the citations you will be using in your article