Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Northeastern Illinois University/Introduction to LGBTQ Studies (Fall 2017)

Offers an introductory and interdisciplinary approach to the lives, histories and cultures of LGBTQ communities and allies. Focuses on justice work that honors multiplicity and diversity in gender and sexual expression including how race, class, ability and other identity markers shape LGBTQ lives.

You can find an article to edit and add to at the LGBT Studies clean up listing:

https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/cwb/alpha/LGBT_studies.html

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 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 9
Take the training Modules on Evaluating Wikipedia and Finding Articles. Then Locate a Wikipedia entry on an LGBTQ person or organization and evaluate the article.


 * Complete the &quot;Evaluating Articles and Sources&quot; training (linked below).
 * Choose an article, and consider some questions (but don't feel limited to these):
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?
 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * Choose at least 2 questions relevant to the article you're evaluating.

Submit your evaluation into the Dropbox on D2L.

You can find an article to edit and add to at the LGBT Studies clean up listing:

https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/cwb/alpha/LGBT_studies.html

Week 10
Choose an article about an LGBTQ Person or Organization. Read through it, 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.

You can find an article to edit and add to at the LGBT Studies clean up listing:

https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/cwb/alpha/LGBT_studies.html

Week 12
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a paragraph and new citation to an article. There are two ways you can do this:


 * Add short paragraph to the article you edited, and cite that statement 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.