Wikipedia:Meetup/CCCCWI/Events

Events edit

The CCCC Wikipedia Initiative hosts workshops, office hours, and coffeehouses. If you need some help getting started, have specific questions, or would like to find space to work on your article alongside your collaborators, these are great spaces to do so.

Interested in organizing an edit-a-thon or writing group? Check out the WikiProject Writing Guide to Organizing Editing Events and Writing Groups.

Past Events edit

In addition to one-off edit-a-thons and workshops, the CCCCWI hosts workshops aimed at teaching scholars how to edit Wikipedia and collaborate on key Wikipedia articles within the fields of rhetoric, composition, technical communication, literacy, and language studies on WikiProject Writing. Check out our past events to see the topics we've covered and articles we've edited.

2023 edit

June edit

June 9-10, 2023: Dr. Alexandria Lockett hosted a two-day exploration of how Wikipedia editing affects knowledge production about the arts of rhetoric, composition, and literacy. On Day 1, Dr. Lockett delivered a presentation that addressed three main topics: the emergence of new technologies and data, inclusive citation practices, and strategies for integrating knowledge communities across space and time. After the talk, participants were trained on how to edit Wikipedia and edited articles related to pivotal scholars and scholarship on rhetoric, composition, and literacy. On Day 2, Dr. Lockett provided an overview of her approach to teaching with Wikipedia including coure curricula, training and ancillary materials, and assignments.
June 30, 2023: This month, Erin Green, a graduate student at the University of Maryland studying abolition in literacy and composition studies, and Dr. Elise Dixon, an assistant professor of English and the writing center director at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke host a conversation about contextualizing their research with activists, the ever-growing anti-LGBTQ legislation, and the general state of queer activist research. After the talk, participants were trained on how to edit Wikipedia. There were opportunities to improve and create Wikipedia articles related to pivotal scholars and scholarship on queer activism in rhetoric and writing studies.

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April 27, 2023: The April iteration of the CCCCWI Speaker Series started off with a presentation from Dr. Chistopher Castillo, the Assistant Director of the Writing Resource Center at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. His presentation--"Burning our Fingers: An Intersectional Grapple with the Steel Cage of Racism"--used the story of a racist encounter and its aftermath to draw attention to the racialized emotions that circulate in professional academic spaces (including writing programs, graduate programs, and departments) that must be addressed as part of anti-racist efforts. Highlighting both the harm done by what the speaker refers to as “racist fuck ups” and the habits of dialogue and self-reflection that make accountability possible in harm's aftermath, the speaker suggests that consistent attention to the emotional valence of racism and anti-racist work will better equip writing studies to confront its investments in institutional white supremacy. After the talk, participants improved Wikipedia articles related to pivotal scholars and scholarship on anti-racism and racial justice in writing studies.

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March 31, 2023: The March iteration of the CCCCWI Speaker Series started off with a presentation from Dr. Federico Navarro, the chair of the School of Education and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Education Sciences, Universidad de O’Higgins (Chile). He shared an overview of how post-secondary writing studies have rapidly developed over the last twenty years in Latin America, looking into the female-dominated field of scholars and scholarship that have shaped writing studies research and practice and the predominant lines of research currently being sought. Finally, he focused on how the field has been shaped by a history of inequity and segregation, leading to a more critical view of reading, writing, and literacy teaching as research and open-access, multilingual research. After the talk, participants improved Wikipedia articles--in English, Spanish, and Portuguese--related to pivotal scholars and scholarship about Latin American scholars in higher education.

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February 24, 2023: The February iteration of the CCCCWI Speaker Series started off with a presentation from Dr. Katie Bramlett, an Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program at California State University, East Bay and a 2021-22 CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellow. Her presentation, "Genres of Memory and Asian/American Women's Activism" explored how three distinct memorial genres—a statue, a traveling exhibit, and a documentary—created by Asian/Americans about Asian/American women activists. Her presentation highlights the rhetorical strategies these memorialist activists employ to (re)compose historical and modern narratives that stereotypically frame Asian/American women as exoticized sexual objects or the model minority. After the talk, participants had a chance to be trained on how to edit Wikipedia. After training, participants improved Wikipedia articles related to pivotal scholars and scholarship related to genres of memory and Asian/American women's activism.

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November 18, 2022: The November iteration of the CCCCWI speaker Series started off with a presentation from Alexandra Krasova, a PhD Candidate in Composition and Applied Linguistics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a 2021-22 CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellow. Krasova shared her research on multilingual students’ writing practices and reflected on multilingual writers’ experiences in digital space. She went on to explain why it is important to include multilingual writers to promote digital equity and inclusivity. Finally, she focused on multilinguals in Wikipedia and discussed the reasons why their practices vary and how it contributes to knowledge equity. After the talk, participants had a chance to be trained on how to edit Wikipedia. After training, participants improved Wikipedia articles related to pivotal scholars and scholarship on multilingual writers in digital space.

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October 18, 2022: The October iteration of the CCCCWI Speaker Series started off with a presentation from Millie Hizer, a PhD Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at Indiana University, Bloomington. Hizer drew from pivotal scholarship at the intersection of Disability and Writing Studies to trace a non-linear history of disability and accessibility in the field of Rhetoric and Composition. Ultimately, she reflected on the role this scholarship has played in her development as an emerging, multiply disabled teacher-scholar who plans to dedicate her career towards increasing access in both the writing classroom and higher education more broadly. After the talk, participants had a chance to be trained on how to edit Wikipedia. After training, participants improved Wikipedia articles related to pivotal scholars and scholarship at the intersection of Disability and Writing Studies.

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September 23rd: The CCCCWI Speaker Series kicked off with a talk from Dr. Jennifer Johnson—a Continuing Lecturer at the University of California Santa Barbara Writing Program. She discussed her experience collaborating with the CCCCWI as a recipient of the Bazerman Faculty Fellowship for Professional Development. Topics included an overview of Dr. Johnson's experience editing and organizing with Wikipedia and a discussion of new research pathways for fostering understanding between Wikipedia and scholarly values. After the talk, participants were trained on how to edit Wikipedia and navigate some of the challenges discussed. After training, participants had the opportunity to improve and create articles related to WikiProject Writing's September Spotlight on Writing Programs.

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June 10th, July 8th, and August 5th: In this workshop series, we focused on introducing scholars to the Summer-long Edit-a-thon on Literacy Spotlight on WikiProject Writing and adressed pathways for creating incremental changes to the article on Literacy. Edits included creating the draft article on Linda Adler-Kassner to incorporate into the Teaching and Learning section of the article on Literacy and developing new writing recommendations. Scholars from UC Santa Barbara and secondary schools joined.

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Friday, May 6th: This Wikipedia as Public Scholarship workshop, we focused on making basic edits in visual and source editor on articles for biographies of academics and their relevant scholarship as listed in various articles. Participant affiliations included Lafayette University.

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Friday, April 8th: This Wikipedia as Public Scholarship workshop, we spent some time focuding on how to search for reliable secondary sources for biographical articles on scholars within the humanities.
Friday, April 22nd: This Getting Started with WikiProject Writing workshop, we reviewed a few simple tasks for cleaning up articles in need of improvement on WikiProject Writing.

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Friday, March 4th: This Wikipedia as Public Scholarship workshop, we focused on how to analyze the anatomy of of Wikipedia article, including taking a deep dive into the history of foundational articles within writing studies. Participant affiliations included the University of Notre Dame.
Wednesday, March 9th: CCCC 2022 Edits Wikipedia! The CCCC Wikipedia Initiative and CCCC Wikimedian-in-residence hosted a workshop focused on teaching scholars how to edit Wikipedia for knowledge equity and improve articles on key topics in composition and rhetoric. After the workshop, participants split up into different virtual rooms to edit on a specific topics including biographies of academics (Dr. Matthew Vetter) and dipping into different types of editing behaviors (Dr. Dylan Dryer).
Friday, March 18th: This Getting Started with WikiProject Writing workshop, we took participants through how to organize and collaborate on WikiProject Writing. We investigated articles on the WikiProject Writing on our monthly spotlight dedicated to improving and creating new articles on the concept of learning transfer in writing studies.

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Friday, February 4th: This Wikipedia as Public Scholarship workshop, we focused on showing participants how to find and address content gaps on Wikipedia related to marginalized scholars and their scholarship. Some articles we reviewed were Technical writing and Digital rhetoric. Participant affiliations included the University of Washington.
Friday, February 18th: This Getting Started with WikiProject Writing workshop, we reviewed good entry points for getting started with collaborating on WikiProject Writing; completing cleanup tasks, setting goals on content development spotlights, and making improvements to draft or stub articles.

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Friday, January 7th: This Wikipedia as Public Scholarship workshop, we focused on reviewing how to make small edits to biographies of academics.
Friday, January 21st: This Getting Started with WikiProject Writing, we focused on how to add articles with notes to WikiProject Writing's articles for creation and improvement in source editor. Participant affiliations included the University of Stockton.

Presentations edit

June 30th CCCCWI Speaker Series - Queer Activism in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
April CCCCWI Speaker Series - Anti-Racism and Racial Justice in Writing Studies
March CCCCWI Speaker Series - Latin American Writing Studies in Higher Education
February CCCCWI Speaker Series - Genres of Memory and Asian/American Women's Activism
CCCCWI Speaker Series Wikipedia Training
November CCCCWI Speaker Series - Multilingual Writers in Digital Space
October CCCCWI Speaker Series Presentation - Disability in the Rhetoric and Writing Classroom
September CCCCWI Speaker Series Presentation - Identifying Challenges to Editing Wikipedia for the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative
Summer-long Edit-a-thon on Literacy Workshop
CCCC 2022 Edits Wikipedia Workshop
Wikipedia as Public Scholarship Workshop - September 2021
Getting Started with WikiProject Writing Workshop - October 2021