Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Georgetown/WRIT 015-21- Banned and Challenged Books (Spring 2019)

This class examines censorship in U.S. public schools and libraries. Hundreds of challenges are made yearly to texts for containing sexually explicit material, violence, homosexuality, anti-family sentiment, offensive language and Satanic themes, amongst others. This class will explore what is at stake in these arguments over appropriate reading materials. Students will share their growing knowledge about book censorship with a wider audience through their contributions to Wikipedia.

Week 2
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 is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity. Each training completed on time is worth 20 points. Please complete before coming to class on Wednesday, Jan. 16.

Wikipedia Project, Phase One: discussing the pros and cons of Wikipedia.

For class on Jan. 16, please read Chapter 3: “The Case Against Wikipedia” in Thomas Leitch’s Wikipedia U, available through Canvas.

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 3
Locate articles related to controversial children's literature

Identify 5 articles on Wikipedia that are related to the controversial children's literature discussed by Alyson Miller in the article we read or that are listed on American Library Associations' yearly compilation of most challenged books, found at http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10. Prior to 3pm on Monday, Jan. 28,  compile and post the names of these five articles to the Canvas discussion called “List of Wikipedia articles related to  controversial children's or young adult literature. ” Give the Wikipedia article title plus a link. Class members will look at these lists for suggestions of articles  to edit during class the week of Jan. 28.

This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity and it is worth 10 points.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Small edits to to article on children's literature in class Jan. 28

<span style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity. After evaluating the article assigned to you, everyone will make at least one small edit to a live article to practice using Wikipedia visual editor and to practice creating an edit summary. 5 points/edit. In-class assignment.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif;">This semester you will be asked to blog about your experiences on Wikipedia. These blogs are worth 10% of your overall grade. For each blog, I will post a prompt for you to address. In addition, you can use discussion questions provided through the Wikipedia dashboard to frame your entries. You will be asked to reflect on the research and writing processes as you go through them. These blogs will help you keep track of your evolving experience of working in Wikipedia and may be used in writing your final reflection due in May. They will also help you to internalize  <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif;">ideas about how and why writing works (and sometimes does not), an understanding that has been shown to make writers more effective. <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif;"> You will be required to write 5 blogs and post 5 responses to classmates' blogs. Each blog should be about 350 words and is worth 20 points if it meets all criteria, including being posted on time to the appropriate discussion board on Canvas. Please see rubric and guidelines below. Each response to a classmate's blog is worth 5 points if it is posted on time and follows the guidelines for responding. Please respond to a post that has 2 or less comments. If a blog has three comments, look at someone else's.

<span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif;">Please see handout on the assignment on Canvas for further details.

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<span style="caret-color: #2c2c2c; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">Blog #1 due by Friday, Feb. 1 at 11:59pm.

<span style="caret-color: #2c2c2c; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">Reponse to a classmate's blog #1 due by Sunday, Feb. 3 by 11:59pm.

<span style="caret-color: #2c2c2c; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">This blog is worth 20 points if it meets all criteria. The response is worth 5 points if posted on time and follows the guidelines. <span style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: inherit;">Please see the handout on the assignment on Canvas for rubric and guidelines.

Please address these three areas in a coherent, focused manner by using paragraphs with strong topic sentences.

1.       Explain your stance on Wikipedia at the beginning of the semester. We wrote about this topic in class after our discussion of the chapter “The Case Against Wikipedia.”

2.       Describe and reflect upon your initial experiences on Wikipedia, including creating a Wikipedia account, using the dashboard for our class, the first four tutorials, evaluating Wikipedia articles, and making live edits. What challenges did you encounter? What successes did you have? Is working in Wikipedia what you imagined it might be? What questions and concerns has this initial work created for you? What has it clarified for you about how Wikipedia functions?

<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; text-align: inherit;">    3.Explore a writing concept – “discourse community.” We can consider Wikipedia a discourse community, a group of people communicating with each other around a common set of goals and values, and using certain types (genres) of texts and specialized language to meet these goals. As such, it has conventions that regulate how members should interact. What are the common goals and values of the Wikipedia community as you understand them so far? What conventions, rules, or guidelines have you encountered about communicating on Wikipedia? What genres or types of texts are used for communicating on Wikipedia? What specialized language have you encountered working within the Wikipedia community?

Editing articles on controversial children's literature - Jan. 30

1. Select a Wikipedia article from the lists generated by your classmates.

2. Assign the article to yourself through the dashboard.

3. Evaluate the article using the questions from the evaluation exercise you’ve done before. It’s posted above. Post your evaluation notes in your sandbox. Be sure these notes are labeled to differentiate them from your previous evaluations. (15 points).

4. Make at least 5 small live edits to the article based on your evaluation. Each edit is worth 5 points. Be sure to include a edit summary for each edit. Small edits include fixing citations, revising sentences for clarity, correcting proofreading errors, and adding 1-2 sentences of new content. Aspirational goal for this assignment is to add 1-2 sentences of new content based on class sources such as the Miller article. Another good source for information is Credo Reference, a compilation of encyclopedias available through Lauinger Library. Here is the link: Credo Reference

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<span style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity worth 40 points total (15 for evaluation and 5 for each edit). Edits must be completed by  <span style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: inherit;">Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 11:59pm to receive full credit.

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Week 5
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What's a content gap?

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Thinking about Wikipedia

Week 6
Activity TBD.

Week 7

 * Select either the Wikipedia article on the book or the movie, and decide if the article follows the basic format described in the handout. What does the article have/cover that is mentioned in the handout? What is missing and could be added to the article? Then find one source using a database from Lauinger Library, either Credo Reference or Literature Resource Center.
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-indent: -24px;">Label and post your evaluations to your sandbox.  <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-indent: -24px; color: black;">This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity. The evaluation is worth 15 points.

<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; color: #333333; letter-spacing: .75pt;"> a.     <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">Credo Reference 

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Books

Films

LGBT+ Studies

Women's Studies

<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">Reminder: Blog about your experiences on Wikipedia. These blogs will help you keep track of your evolving experience of working in Wikipedia and be used in writing your final reflection due in May.

<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">Blog #2 due by Friday, Feb. 22 at 11:59pm.

<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">Reponse to a classmate's blog #2 due by Sunday, Feb. 24 by 11:59pm.

<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">This blog is worth 20 points if it meets all criteria. The response is worth 5 points if posted on time.

Week 8
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; text-align: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;">Identify 5 articles on Wikipedia that are related to the section of <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; text-align: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;">  <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; text-align: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;">Rethinking Columbus <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; text-align: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;">you read or that are related to the Tucson controversy to which we as a class may make edits. Prior to class, please post the names of these five articles to the Canvas discussion called “Wikipedia articles related to <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; text-align: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;">  <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; text-align: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;">Rethinking Columbus <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; text-align: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;">and to the Tucson controversy”. <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; text-align: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;">  <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; text-align: inherit; text-indent: -0.25in;">This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity and is worth 10 points.

- Select a Wikipedia article from the lists generated by your classmates.

 - Assign the article to yourself through the dashboard.

''' - Conduct an evaluation of the article using the questions from the initial activity or the handout from Wikipedia on structure of articles. Put the evaluation in your sandbox and label it clearly. 15 points towards Wikipedia Project, Phase One.'''

Evaluate an article

Books

Films



'''     - Make at least two small edits. Each edit is worth 5 points. This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity. Be sure to include a edit summary for each edit. '''<span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: inherit; color: #6a6a6a;">Please make these live edits by 11:59pm today. '''Small edits include fixing citations, revising sentences for clarity, correcting proofreading errors, and adding 1-2 sentences of new content. Aspirational goal for this assignment is to add 1-2 sentences of new content based on class sources such as Rethinking Columbus, the Acosta article, the Cabrera et al article, and the documentary. Another good source for information is Credo Reference, a compilation of encyclopedias available through Lauinger Library. Here is the link'''<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.008px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: inherit;">: Credo Reference

Week 10
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">           Evaluate the Wikipedia article for  Persepolis 

'''a.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">     Use both means of evaluation with which we are now familiar: the list of questions from the evaluation activity and the handout about the structure of a book article. Post these evaluations to your sandbox with an appropriate heading. This is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity worth 15 points.'''

'''b.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">     Then meet with a small group and agree upon one edit each person will make in the section of the article assigned to your group. These are the sections:'''

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">                                              i. <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -1.5in; text-align: inherit; color: #6a6a6a;">Lead + Background

ii. Sectional summary

iii. Character list

iv. Genre/Style

v.      Analysis

vi. Reception + Other + See Also

b.      Please make this edit to the LIVE Wikipedia page by Tuesday, March 19 at 11:59pm. The edit is a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity worth 5 points.

Evaluate an article

Books

Week 11
A worksheet for this activity will be provided.

Week 12
<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">Reminder: Blog about your experiences on Wikipedia. These blogs will help you keep track of your evolving experience of working in Wikipedia and be used in writing your final reflection due in May.

<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">Blog #3 due by Monday, April 8  at 1:59pm.

<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">Response to a classmate's blog #3 will be completed in class on Monday, April 8.

<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">This blog is worth 20 points if it meets all criteria. The response is worth 5 points if posted on time.

Week 13
Please complete these two trainings by the end of class on April 10, by 3:15pm. They are each worth 20 points if completed on time, and they count as Wikipedia Project, Phase One activities.

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

Everyone has begun drafting the new content for their article.

Week 14
Peer reviewers today will not be looking at the whole article, just the new content you will be adding to the article.

Please answer the questions on the handout. There are questions to answer before and after you complete the peer review.

1. Answer questions 1-2 on handout.

2. Then read and respond to the work of two classmates in their sandboxes.

To get started for each review, navigate to the page where your peer is drafting their contribution to Wikipedia. This will usually be their sandbox, but if you aren't sure, ask. Use the Talk page of that sandbox page to leave feedback.

If your class is drafting their work in sandboxes, follow these steps:

·     Find your peers' sandbox. Navigate there from the Students (or Editors) tab of your Course page...or just ask them.

·       Go to the talk page of their sandbox.

·       Click &quot;New section&quot;.

·       Add a subject, something like &quot;Samantha's peer review&quot;.

·       Leave your notes in the space below.

·       Save the page.

3. After completing feedback for two classmates, answer questions 3-4 on the handout about the feedback you received.

4. Turn handout in to Professor Fuisz at the end of class.

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.

Guiding framework

Week 15
<span style="caret-color: #2c2c2c; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">Please complete the training prior to the start of class. The training is worth 20 points if completed on time, and it counts as a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity.

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

<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">Reminder: Blog about your experiences on Wikipedia. These blogs will help you keep track of your evolving experience of working in Wikipedia and be used in writing your final reflection due in May.

<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">Blog #5 due by Friday, April 26 at 11:59pm.

<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">Reponse to a classmate's blog #4 due by Sunday, April 28 by 11:59pm.

<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;">This blog is worth 20 points if it meets all criteria. The response is worth 5 points if posted on time.

Exercise
Add links to your article

<span style="caret-color: #2c2c2c; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: inherit;">Please complete the training by the end of the day, 4/24/19 by 11:59pm. <span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15.008000373840332px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: inherit;">  The training is worth 20 points if completed on time, and it counts as a Wikipedia Project, Phase One activity.

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 16
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 17
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading on <span style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: inherit;">May 5 by 11:59 pm.

<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">A final reflection  <span style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: inherit; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 21px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">on the process of working with Wikipedia will also be due on Sunday, May 5 by 11:59 pm and can be submitted via Canvas. Wikipedia provides some questions to consider in the prompt below. A detailed description of this assignment will be provided at the start of Phase Two of the Wikipedia Project. There is no final exam for this class. <span style="caret-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: inherit;">

Guiding questions