Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Hollins University/Designing Women (Fall 2018)

Over the course of this semester, we have considered why architecture remains among the most male-dominated of all the professions. Moreover, when women have been able to work as architects, their production has often been overlooked or ignored. This assignment will give students the opportunity to participate directly in the documentation of women’s contributions to the built environment.

Your second paper will consist of two parts. First, you will research the work of a specific woman architect, to be selected from the list of female architects given here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women_architects

or

https://tinyurl(.)com/yd9rngcn (article stubs for women architects)

You will work to find five additional sources for the architect you chose, to be incorporated into their Wikipedia page. Like architecture, editing Wikipedia is a male-dominated field. This assignment also addresses imbalance by having you learn to edit Wikipedia and add your sources to the article’s reference list.

You will also write a 2000-word essay that will discuss your chosen architect’s more in-depth, and incorporate one of the themes that we have addressed in class.

Week 8
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.

Discussion
Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Exercise
For this project, select any of the articles listed in the Category: Women Architects article list.

Choose a topic

Once you have your biography selected:

Finalize your topic / start finding your sources

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Biographies

Week 10
For this assignment, you're being asked to contribute at least 5 sources to your article. These sources must conform to Wikipedia's standards for authoratitive publications. Use this week to collect your sources in your Sandbox, and don't forget you can 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

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Use the trainings and exercises here to help move your sources into your articles.

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Exercise
Add citations

Copyedit your article

Add links to your article


 * Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13