Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Kentucky/Global Genders (Spring 2023)

This course serves to engage with texts about genders beyond the cis binary. In addition to learning about the experiences of these peoples, students will consider how these peoples can or cannot be spoken about. In what ways can global peoples be joined through generalizing language around gender, and in what ways does this language threaten to erase specificity or enforce imperialist ideals? How can we recognize the shared struggles against power that many genders worldwide experience, without reducing these peoples to sameness?

The goal of this Wikipedia project is to contribute to articles on gender identity around the globe, as well as the authors and scholars that contribute to such works. Such articles might include Faʻafafine, Bacha Posh, 'Yan Daudu, etc.

Students will utilize university libraries and other scholarly sources to contribute content and citations to under-represented, under-researched, and misunderstood global gender identities. They will also seek to avoid and remove Western/Anglo-centric biases that center the &quot;transgender&quot; experience as we understand it in the USA as the &quot;default&quot; transcendence of the Western gender binary by using language that does not assume that global gender identities are &quot;just like&quot; or &quot;the same as&quot; what we in the United States call trans man or trans woman.

Week 7
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 9
Books

Cultural Anthropology

Films

LGBT+ Studies

Linguistics

Political Science

Women's Studies

Week 11
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

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 12
Guiding framework

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

Week 13
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 14
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 15
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.

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 16
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 17
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.