Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Michigan/Blacks and Jews in the Arab World (Fall 2018)

Students will write a wiki assignment in which they provide information relating to the history of Afro-Arabs, Arab Jews, slavery, and social justice within the Middle East.

This course delves into the history of Blackness and Jewishness throughout the Middle East. Specifically, this course explores parallels between the struggles of Blacks and Jews in modern history. Students explore the ways in which diasporic identities are constructed and reconstructed over time and space. We will discuss the flexible and interrelated nature of the categories of Blackness and Jewishness across different cultural, historical, and temporal contexts.

What linkages can be drawn between civil rights struggles in Israel and America?

How does the history of slavery intersect with the status of Jews in the Middle East?

Where do Ethiopian Jews fit into the categories of Blackness/Jewishness?

What is the image of the Black in Jewish Culture?

How does black anti-colonial thought relate to Jewish intellectual thought?

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.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

What's a content gap?

Exercise
Add a citation

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Week 6
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

Biographies

Books

Cultural Anthropology

Films

History

LGBT+ Studies

Political Science

Sociology

Women's Studies

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 8
Guiding framework

Thinking about Wikipedia

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

Week 9
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

Exercise
Add links to your article

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.

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.

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!

Nominating your article for Did You Know

Week 10
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!

Guiding questions

Week 11
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.