Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Georgetown University/WRIT 015-11- Banned and Challenged Books (Fall 2020)

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 3
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 9
Art History

Biographies

Books

Cultural Anthropology

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

Films

History

LGBT+ Studies

Linguistics

Political Science

Women's Studies

Week 10
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 11
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Please complete this assignment by 11:59pm on Sunday, Nov. 1. That gives me time Monday morning to review the articles you are considering for Phase Two of the Wikipedia Project before we meet for our one-on-one conference. When we meet Monday morning, we will decide together which of the articles you will select to work on for the rest of the semester.

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 five options of articles you would be willing to work on for Wikipedia Project, Phase Two. 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 on Monday, 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: ProQuest Central.You must be logged in to GU to search this database.



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The training is worth 10 points and the exercise is worth 15 points towards the Wikipedia Project, Phase One. To get full credit for the exercise, you must add one-two sentences of new content, citations for the new content, and  an edit summary that explains why you made the changes.

Week 13
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

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

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 14
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.

The training and exercise are worth 10 points each towards Wikipedia Project, Phase One.

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 15
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

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!

Please see directions in Canvas.

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