Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Gonzaga University/Transgender Social Movements (Spring 2020)

Though they didn’t always use that term, transgender individuals have a long history of movement-building and activism within the United States. This course explores the longer trajectory of transgender organizing within North America, and the United States in particular, studying how changing cultural and medical understandings of sex and gender impacted individuals whose presentation and identity ran contrary to these prevailing norms. For the first half of the course, we’ll examine how these individuals organized to challenge such dominant understands and advocate for their rights throughout the mid to late 20th century. In the final weeks, we’ll consider current struggles for transgender rights in light of this longer history, and what insights it might offer for future activist work.

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

Week 4
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.

Week 5
For this assignment, you'll complete two simple tasks:


 * Add a brief bio about your editing and course work to your Wikipedia User Page and include some appropriate use of styling (underlines, bolding, bullet points, numbered list, etc.) (see instructor's page as an example).
 * Leave a comment on at least two classmates' talk pages (see instructor's page as an example).

Once complete, submit a link to your userpage in Blackboard.

Week 6
Select one of the pages in the  Category:Transgender and transsexual writers, and evaluate it using the prompt questions in attached &quot;Evaluate Wikipedia&quot; training module. While the training module will suggest you use Wikipedia's built-in Evaluation tool, for this assignment I'd like your written evaluation submitted to Blackboard. You may copy-paste the questions into a word doc, then give brief, one to two sentence responses for your evaluation. You are not required to complete the Optional Activity at the end of the training module.

For 10 pts extra credit, you may also submit this evaluation to the built-in tool linked in the training module (please let me know via e-mail if you do complete this evaluation).

Week 7
For this assignment, you will get a little practice working with a live Wikipedia article. Select one of the pages in the Category:Transgender and transsexual writers, and make at least two simple, minor edits, such as editing grammar or cleaning up sentence structure. Since these edits are about getting practice making and committing changes, as well as leaving edit comments, your edits should not update the page's content or citations.

Once you've made your edits, submit a link to the page you edited, as well as a short write-up (two to three sentences) explaining what changes you made to the page.

Week 8
For this assignment, you and your partner will select the organization whose article you'd like to update. We'll discuss each of the organizations in class ahead of time, so you're a bit more familiar with their focus and history. On Friday, I will check to make sure you and your partner have both selected the correct articles.

Week 10
History

LGBT+ Studies

Women's Studies

Week 11
Using the proposal form posted to Blackboard, submit a proposal for how you will update your selected article. This proposal should include:


 * ** Summary of Chosen Page Topic, including:
 * **** Organization History
 * Signifigant Members
 * Notable Accomplishments
 * Proposed Structure for Page, Including possible new content areas
 * Citation List
 * Plan and Schedule for Writing and Editing Page

Week 12
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Week 13
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.

By April 15, you will submit a link to your in-progress article (in your Sandbox) for me to review via Blackboard. This is primarily a check-in, to make sure work is proceeding on-time and to offer preliminary feedback.

Week 14
Guiding framework

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

Week 15
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.

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!

Week 16
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.