Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/SUNY New Paltz/Performing Feminism (Fall 2016)

In this course, with an emphasis on the Hemispheric Americas and an eye toward transnational enactments, students will survey the performance of feminism from the (post) Civil Rights era to present day in the visual arts, politics, popular culture, and everyday life. Students will study a range of feminist scholarship located at the intersection of aesthetics and politics to develop their own feminist performances.

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


 * Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.
 * 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 2
In order to successfully edit the page and complete your assignments, you must learn how to use Wikipedia.

Read: Wikipedia's Systemic Bias Read: Optional if applicable: Editing Wikipedia Articles (Biographies)

Related Wikipedia projects

 


 * WikiProject Women artists
 * WikiProject Women writers
 * WikiProject Women's History
 * WikiProject Feminism
 * Wikipedia and Open Access LibGuide and Directory of GLAM-wiki and editing resources
 * Wikipedia:Wikipedia for Libraries Archives Museums learning resources, training tools, guide for galleries, libraries, archives, museums
 * Wikipedia:GLAM/US GLAM-Wiki (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) U.S. Consortium

Week 3
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article related to class.


 * Complete the &quot;Evaluating Articles and Sources&quot; training (linked below).
 * Choose an article related to class, 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?
 * Once you have identified issues, write two sentences on the Talk page suggesting improvements and sharing sources.
 * Be sure to sign your feedback with four tildes — Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:28, 14 December 2016 (UTC).
 * If you will edit this page for your assignment, add a note announcing that you plan to improve the article on the article's Talk page. Put the page on your watchlist so that you see any changes that are made to it.
 * To &quot;Watchlist&quot; any page, make sure you're logged in. Then just click on the star next to the &quot;view history&quot; tab on any Wikipedia page. When it turns blue, it's on your watchlist. See your watchlist by clicking &quot;Watchlist&quot; at the very top of your page when you're logged in.

Week 4
Choose a feminist performance/feminist performer that is different than the one you presented on in class (when applicable). You can choose to improve the page you critiqued in the previous assignment. You could also choose an artist's page (e.g. Lorraine O'Grady), a group’s page (e.g. Pussy Riot), or the page dedicated to s specific action (e.g. Slutwalk).

Look for someone/an action with little to nothing written on the English-language Wikipedia site, but who has been written about in several reliable secondary sources (like our course readings, books, or journals).

Research Resources:

Our librarians have compiled a great library guide for the Art + Feminism edit-a-thon last spring. Use this site as a resource: http://newpaltz.libguides.com/c.php?g=329502&p=2212388.


 * The Feminist Art Project
 * WomenArts
 * WomenArts Network Artist Directory
 * List of Directories of Women Artists
 * Support Women Artists Now Day
 * Jstor (subscription required)
 * Project MUSE (subscription required)
 * The Feminist Art Project at Rutgers University
 * Ubu Web
 * Digital Public Library of America
 * Archives of American Art
 * National Museum of Women in the Arts
 * National Women's History Museum
 * Women's History Sourcebook
 * MoMA Learning
 * Women Artists in the MoMA Online Collection
 * Tate Learning
 * The Getty Online
 * New Museum Digital Archive
 * Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Museum Feminist Art Base
 * National Women's History Project
 * Arts: Search
 * Art and Feminism (book)
 * The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium (book)
 * After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art (book)
 * Canadian Art Database
 * Sophia Smith Collection, Women's History Archives at Smith College
 * n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal
 * Getty Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
 * IAM Intense Art Magazine - Women in the fields of visual arts, fashion, design and architecture in Africa.
 * Contemporary Arab Women's Art: Dialogues of the present, edited by Fran Lloyd (book)
 * Women and Art in South Africa by Marion Arnold (book)
 * Canadian Women Artists History Initiative
 * Artists in Canada
 * Women Writers Project (No subscription required in March)


 * Complete the &quot;Sources and Citations&quot; training (linked below).
 * The Citation Hunt tool can show you some statements that don't have citations. You can use that to find an article to reference.
 * When you make a small claim, clearly state the fact in your own words, and then cite the source where you found the information.

You must add a minimum of 500 new words of prose to the page you have chosen using at least 3 new sources. You could also add lists and tables (such as exhibitions, recognition, feminism), but this will not be counted as part of your word count.

Week 5
Tweet about your edit with the course hashtag: #PerfFem.