Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Hobart and William Smith Colleges/African American Art (Spring 2019)

Using a loosely chronological framework, this course presents a series of topics on African American art and its crucial role in the shaping of the history and development of American visual arts and culture. Often misrepresented, marginalized, or absent, the contributions of African American artists will be studied beginning with the transplanting of artisan traditions from the African continent to the United States during the slave-trade through the rise of the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960s-1970s. Importantly, this course will simultaneously engage with questions pertaining to the very category of “African-American Art” and its relationship to the Black Arts movements. Many artists and art historians, for example, have questioned the viability of such a category, challenging its potentially divisive effects as well as its limitation in regard to the increasingly diasporic communities it is intended to name. In our study of arts made by American artists of African descent, we will be careful to consider the politics of identification across race as well as class, sex, and gender difference.

Week 5
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 week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

What's a content gap?

Exercise
Add a citation

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Week 9
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Art History

Biographies

Films

History

Women's Studies

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 10
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 11
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

Exercise
Add links to your article

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.

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 13
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 14
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.