Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/SUNY Empire State College/Introduction to LGBTQ Studies (Spring 2019)

An introductory LGBTQ studies course accompanied by an in-development OER textbook, about which students will be asked to provide feedback

Week 2
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.

Week 5
For your final assignment for the course, we are asking you to develop a Wikipedia article. However, developing a Wikipedia article from scratch can be very daunting! Instead, we will ask you to choose an existing stub article, or an article which is too short to constitute a full entry. This week you will be asked to identify the stub article that you would like to work on improving throughout this class. We have compiled the following resources that will help give you some ideas. Look through them, and think about which stub article you would like to choose for your final project. Ideally, the stub will be about an issue, person, or organization we are learning about in the course.

Things to think about when choosing an article:


 * Can you find sources about this? A well-constructed Wikipedia article will include sources to verify the information that it contains. Can you find good, credible sources about this topic?
 * Are you interested in it? We hope that you will find something interesting to you to research!

Do not choose these article types:


 * Lists (for example, List of androgynous people)

Here are some examples of specific stubs that would be appropriate to consider:


 * Cooper Do-nuts Riot
 * Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services

Here are lists of LGBTQ-related stubs where you might identify stub articles you want to work with:


 * LGBT stubs
 * LGBT rights activist stubs‎
 * LGBT organization stubs
 * LGBT-related documentary film stubs

You will select your article this week as part of the &quot;Choose your article&quot; exercise below. You can also use the methods from the &quot;Finding your article&quot; section to locate a relevant LGBTQ+ stub article. Please choose your article (or a few potential articles) before February 16 so that your instructors can provide feedback.

Notes:

The Finding Your Article section will advise you to avoid controversial topics. However, you might note that topics like &quot;LGBT rights&quot; are on Wikipedia's list of controversial topics! This does not mean that all LGBTQ+ content on Wikipedia will be controversial (although some will, due to the nature of the open editing process). Instead, it means that the editing history for those particular articles has been particularly contentious. There are hundreds of pages of edits to the LGBT rights page, for example. This means that many, many editors are working on these articles, and will be quick to argue about or undo changes that are made. Let's not start in this more difficult editing scenario.

In the Choose your article training, please disregard the Writing a New Article section (page 2 of 4). All students in this course will be improving stub articles.

The Choose Your Article training will link you to your Article Selection page on Wikipedia. This is where you will list potential stub articles which you might choose to improve. To see an example, please see my Article Selection page where I have begun to investigate potential stub articles.

Resources:

Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 6
This is where you'll assign yourself the article that you will work on throughout the remainder of the course.

You can use the Bibliography page of your sandbox to keep track of sources if you'd like. Remember, you will need to create an annotated bibliography later, so you should be looking for sources regardless!

Please disregard the If you're creating a new article section in the Add to an Article training. Add your citation to the article that you assigned yourself as part of the Finalizing Your Topic and Finding Sources assignment.

Week 7
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

LGBT+ Studies

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

Week 8
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Guiding framework

Week 9
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 10
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

Week 11
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.

Week 12
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.