Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Northeastern Illinois University/Feminist Ideas (Fall 2017)

Writing Intensive Program Feminist Ideas is intended to insure that Women’s and Gender Studies students understand what feminist perspectives are and their relationship to Women’s and Gender Studies, social issues, and social change. With a focus on Organizing, Family, Health/Reproductive Justice, Violence and Work, students will learn to recognize historical and contemporary feminist leaders, understand the implications and applications of feminist ideas, apply lessons learned from past struggle to contemporary social issues, and evaluate women’s changing status, by race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation and other inequalities.

Week 1
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.

Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the &quot;Get Help&quot; button on this page.

To get started, please review the following handouts:


 * Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Week 2

 * Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (To avoid hitting Wikipedia's account creation limits, this is best done outside of class. Only 6 new accounts may be created per day from the same IP address.)
 * It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.
 * When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate’s Talk page.

Week 3
Choose an article about one of the authors from This Bridge Called My Back or any theorist we are reading this semester. Read through the article on her, thinking about ways to improve the language, such as fixing grammatical mistakes. Then, make the appropriate changes. You don’t need to contribute new information to the article.

Week 4
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a paragraph and a citation to the article about your This Bridge Called My Back author. There are two ways you can do this:


 * Add a paragraph to the article about your This Bridge Called My Back author, and cite it to a reliable source, as you learned in the online training.
 * The Citation Hunt tool shows unreferenced statements from articles. First, evaluate whether the statement in question is true! An uncited statement could just be lacking a reference or it could be inaccurate or misleading. Reliable sources on the subject will help you choose whether to add it or correct the statement. Make sure to add a paragraph to the unreferenced statements to cite them and make them true.