Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Maryland, College Park/Women, Art, and Culture (Summer Session 1)

In Women, Art, and Culture (WMST 250), students will discover the significance of women’s roles as producers, subjects, consumers, and critics of art in the past, present, and future. Exploring women’s involvement with music, literature, performance, crafts, visual, and multimedia genres worldwide, we will situate art in conversation with sociopolitical movements for social justice. As an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Women’s Studies, this class will develop students’ individual and collective skills around activism, creativity, and capacity for engagement with various forms of artistic and cultural production. Drawing on feminist theories, we will focus on how women’s creativity intersects with other dimensions of identity, including race, class, sexuality, ability, education, religion, and nation. This online iteration of WMST 250 will focus specifically on women, art, and culture in the digital sphere as well as the connections between this and other modalities for activism and creative expression.

Week 1
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.

Feminist Wikipedia Project  (300 points)

WMST 250 – WB11

Summer 2020, Session 1

For this project, you and your classmates will each create or substantially revise one Wikipedia article that features a woman artist or cultural producer. Throughout the term, students will learn how to conduct scholarly research and edit Wikipedia through the WikiEdu Dashboard education training modules. Drawing on what we’ve learned in class, your page will help to address gender gaps on the web, in the art world, and in the public consciousness. Cultural producers from any medium or genre are welcome, but selections must be approved in order to identify artists whose Wikipedia pages require a scale of work appropriate to this assignment.

This assignment is divided up into three major components with the following timeline:

Training Modules  (100 points)

Week 1 (Due: Friday, June 5)


 * Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment
 * Getting started on Wikipedia
 * Everyone has a Wikipedia account

Week 2 (Due: Monday, June 8)


 * Evaluate Wikipedia: training and exercise

Week 3 (Due: Wednesday, June 17)


 * Choose possible topics: training and exercise
 * View guides for writing articles in your topic area

Week 4 ( Due: Wednesday, June 24)


 * Excercise: finalize topic and find sources
 * Start drafting your contributions
 * Everyone has started writing

 Peer Review (100 points)

Week 5 (Due: Friday, July 3)


 * Peer review an article
 * Peer reviews are complete
 * Respond to peer review
 * Continue improving article

Final  (100 points)

Week 6 (Due: Wednesday, July 8)


 * Begin moving your work to Wikipedia
 * Continue improving your article
 * Polish your work
 * Final article

Our 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
 * WMST Research Guide from UMD Libraries

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 3
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Art History

Biographies

LGBT+ Studies

Women's Studies

Week 4
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 5
Guiding framework

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

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.

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 6
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

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!

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!

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