Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/The New School/Collaborations in Feminism and Technology (Fall 2014)/Timeline

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Timeline & Resources
Your Wikipedia Reflections will be due before class on Monday 11/24.

Here is a presentation Anne Balsamo and I did on Teaching Wikipedia as part of "Connected Courses" earlier in the month. In this presentation, we propose the possible assignments listed below. You can do any of these guided by the open tasks listed in the last announcement. I will also be adding these open tasks and suggested assignments to our Wikipedia course page. Please enroll on this page so that we can keep track of each other edits and contributions. BUT don't feel like you have to edit or create a Wikipedia page for this assignment. Contact me if this is confusing for you.

Options for Wikipedia Editing:


 * Do an expert reading of the structure of a Wikipedia page
 * Close reading of specific Wikipedia pages
 * Identify citation practices, inclusions, or revision edits
 * Revise an existing page: 1) Clean up or add citations; 2) Increase connections with additional Wikipedia links
 * Discuss the concepts of open publishing, peer review, and networked knowledge creation
 * Explore the process of Wikipedia article creation and submission
 * Contribute to Wikimedia Commons
 * Create a new page

Resources

 * WikiProject Feminism/ Open tasks
 * Women in Technology Taskforce
 * FemTechNet Wikistorming Students (for Fall 2013)
 * Gender gap

Some other project tasks pages to peruse (though I'm not certain how updated they all are):
 * From #GWWI Articles to improve and create
 * Feminists Engage Wikipedia Articles to improve and create
 * Art+Feminism Suggested Topics

ORIENTATION TO WIKIPEDIA And here are some links to help orient you to Wikipedia.


 * Introduction to Wikipedia
 * Creating a User Account (video)
 * Training Tutorial (takes about an hour to complete)
 * Beginners Guide
 * Cheatsheet for Editing
 * Teahouse (for new users)

Helpful Link for Wikipedia Reference Formatting
 * Referencing for Beginners