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Asian/Asian American Scholars & Scholarship

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This Wikipedia Asian Month, we are working to better represent Asian/Asian American scholars—Huiling Ding, Min-Zhan Lu, Asao B. Inoue, Morris Young, and Terese Guinsatao Monberg—and their key works on both general interest and vital articles within writing studies. We aim to work together to address inequities on Wikipedia as we create and contribute to these articles.


Our main goals are to . . .

1. Set writing goals: Create achievable goals for contributions to a target article or articles.

2. Coordinate collaboration: Form writing groups of WikiProject Writing participants interested in improving the same article or articles.

3. Combat knowledge inequities: Address content gaps by creating new content with attention to the research and scholarship of marginalized writing studies teacher-scholars.


Take action by...

1. Choosing an article: Head to our article worklist to find an article you'd like to work on.

2. Setting a goal: Edit our 'Setting goals' section with your suggested plan for the month.

3. Collaborate on an article: Use our resources section to help create a draft, assess notability, find sources, and request feedback.

Past spotlights

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Writing recommendations

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Find an article you are interested in working on from our article worklist below.

Create achievable goals for the month. Here are a few writing recommendations based on weekly time segments:

If you have fifteen minutes each week . . .

  • Add a few citations to an article
  • Update or add a few setences to a biography of an academic
  • Add notable scholarship and resources to the 'See also' section of an article
  • Suggest revisions and point to sources on the talk page

If you have thirty minutes each week . . .

  • Expand an article with a new section or a few paragraphs

If you have an hour or more each week . . .

  • Draft an article in need of creation and link it to a pre-exisitng high traffic article (redlinks)
  • Restructure a pre-exisiting article (make sure to suggest your revisions on the talk page first!)

Article worklist

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Alongside each biography of an academic we've suggested a few field-specific articles and one general interest, vital article to incorporate their scholarship into. Vital articles are lists of subjects for which the English Wikipedia should have corresponding featured-class articles. They serve as centralized watchlists to track the quality status of Wikipedia's most important articles and to give editors guidance on which articles to prioritize for improvement.

Scholar Field-specific articles Vital articles Scholarship

Huiling Ding (Faculty page)

Asao B. Inoue (Faculty page)
Min-Zhan Lu (Faculty page)
  • Lu, Min-Zhan, and Bruce Horner. “Introduction: Translingual Work.” College English, vol. 78, no. 3, 2016, pp. 207–218.
  • Lu, Min-Zhan, and Bruce Horner. “Translingual Literacy, Language Difference, and Matters of Agency.” College English, vol. 75, no. 6, 2013, pp. 582–607.
  • Lu, Min-Zhan. “An Essay on the Work of Composition: Composing English against the Order of Fast Capitalism.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 56, no. 1, 2004, pp. 16–50.
  • Lu, Min-Zhan. “From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle.” College English, vol. 49, no. 4, 1987, pp. 437–448.
Morris Young (scholar) (Faculty page)
  • Young, Morris and Terese Guinsatao Monberg. “Beyond Representation: Spatial, Temporal and Embodied Trans/Formations of Asian/Asian American Rhetoric.” Enculturation, vol. 27, 2018.
  • Young, Morris and LuMing Mao. Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric. 2008.
  • Young, Morris. Minor Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship, 2004.
Terese Guinsatao Monberg (Faculty page)

Setting goals

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Sign up here

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Add your username, goals for article creation, and any specific articles you'll be working on below, alongside your name and a goal or goals you aim to achieve by the end of the month. Additionally, if you plan to collaborate on an article with another participant or participants you may opt to list collaborators and/or invite others to join you.

Copy and paste this format and only change what is within the (parentheses). Add this with a new bullet point below the other participants' sign ups:
~~~ (This month I plan to...) ~~~~~

Resources

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  1. CCCCWI Advice Manual: Creating article drafts
  2. Tutorial on drafting articles
  3. CCCCWI Advice Manual: Biographies of academics
  4. Wikipedia editing for researchers, scholars, and academics
  5. Citing your own work
  6. Notability criteria for academic biographies
  7. Notability criteria for academic and technical books
  8. CCCCWI Advice Manual: Getting Input From the Community

November workshops & office hours

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The CCCC Wikipedia Initiative hosts monthly workshops & office hours. 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:

CCCCWI Coffeehouse (Now Streaming on Twitch)

Friday 11/12 and 11/26 @ 1:00pm-3:00PM EST

Join here

Drop-in whenever you'd like on Friday, November 12th and 26th from 1:00pm-3:00pm EST for an informal virtual writing group. The CCCC Wikipedian-in-Residence and the CCCC Graduate Fellows will live edit Wikipedia via Twitch on a different topic focus each week. Although we cannot meet physically, we wish to create a online space where scholars can get together and chat about our work. Whether you are working on a project, plan on adding a few sources to an article, or just want to chat with other scholars, this is a great space to do so.


Wikipedia as Public Scholarship

Friday 11/5 @ 1:30pm-3:00pm EST

Register (limited to 10 participants)

This introductory workshop covers editing basics with particular attention to some of the specific concerns experts face on Wikipedia and discussion of how academics can use their expertise to advance knowledge equity online. Topics include navigating privacy issues, concerns around conflict of interest, and strategies for getting started with articles that need a lot of work.


Getting Started with WikiProject Writing

Friday 11/19 @ 3:00pm-4:30pm EST

Register (limited to 10 participants)

This intermediate workshop introduces WikiProject Writing as a collaborative space for coordinating efforts to improve Wikipedia articles related to our areas of expertise. Topics include defining the scope of WikiProject Writing by tagging articles, directing the priorities of WikiProject Writing by assessing articles, and adding to and working from our list of articles in need of work and creation.


CCCCWI Office Hours

Mondays & Tuesdays OR by appointment

Register

If you would like to discuss something Wikipedia-related one-on-one or get help with a Wikipedia article you’re working on, please feel free to sign up for my office hours on Mondays and Tuesdays or email me to suggest another time (savannahcragin@berkeley.edu).