Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Georgetown University/WRIT 015-10- Banned and Challenged Books (Spring 2021)

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 1
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.

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 3
Please complete these trainings. Each training is worth 10 points towards your Wikipedia Project, Phase One grade.

Week 4
Go slowly and be sure to complete the practice activities contained in the training &quot;How to edit,&quot; which has two tutorials to complete (see pages 10 and 17 within the training). These trainings count 10 points each towards your Wikipedia Project, Phase One grade.

Week 9
Art History

Biographies

Books

Cultural Anthropology

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

Films

History

LGBT+ Studies

Linguistics

Political Science

Women's Studies

Complete one activity in Wikipedia. This is worth 10 points towards your Wikipedia Project, Phase One grade. Pick one Wikipedia article to which to make a live edit. Be sure that you are signed into your Wikipedia account. Pick a small issue to fix (italicize a title, put a period inside a quotation mark, fix a proofreading error, etc.). Or add a “citation needed” tag to a sentence that is not sourced. Directions for adding a citation needed tag are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed (Links to an external site.).

To receive full credit, you must include an “edit summary” that explains what you did. What was your exigence for making this edit?

Week 10
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

The training is worth 10 points and the exercise is worth 30 points towards the Wikipedia Project, Phase One.

In the &quot;Choose your article&quot; exercise, be sure that on page 3, you click on the the link to &quot;Article Selection.&quot; Clicking that link opens a template with 5 options. Be sure that you click &quot;publish changes&quot; to save this page. Come up with three new options of articles you would be willing to work on for Wikipedia Project, Phase Two. If there is an article(s) that you've already evaluated, it/they can be options #4-5.  These should be articles rated stub or start class that have content gaps and other problems, offering you avenues to improve the article. In consultation with me, you will select one article to work on for the rest of the semester.

To find potential sources for the articles, please search in a database we have access to through GU, ProQuest Central: [https://guides.library.georgetown.edu/pqcentral ProQuest Central. ]You must be logged in to GU to search this database.

Week 11
The training is worth 10 points towards the Wikipedia Project, Phase One

Week 12
Please complete by class time on Wed., April 21, 2021.

Please complete this training as you start to draft your new content for the Wikipedia article. It is worth 10 points towards Phase 1 of the Wikipedia Project.

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 writing their article drafts.

Week 13
Guiding framework

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.

Week 14
Please see directions on page 1 of this exercise.

Please complete this training by class time on Monday, May 3, 2021. It is worth 10 points towards Phase One of the Wikipedia Project.

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, move your draft into the appropriate sandbox. Add Wikipedia style citations.

Once your draft is in the sandbox, you can begin to move it sentence by sentence or small chunk by small chunk into the mainspace of the article, following directions on pages 2-3 in the training listed above.

The training is worth 10 points towards Phase 1 of the Wikipedia Project.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 15
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!

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