Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/American University/Gender, Politics, and Power (Spring 2021)
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- Course name
- Gender, Politics, and Power
- Institution
- American University
- Instructor
- Theodora Danylevich
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Women's Studies
- Course dates
- 2021-01-22 00:00:00 UTC – 2021-04-26 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 29
Students will gain proficiency in concepts central to women's, gender, and sexuality studies while also engaging with scholarly conversations and cultural texts that explore interrelations of gender, politics, and power. With the Wiki Edu project, students will engage in work that helps to advance the cause of equitable representation by developing profile pages for red-linked women, or "Women in Red".
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 25 January 2021 | Thursday, 28 January 2021
- In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment
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
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 1 February 2021 | Thursday, 4 February 2021
- Assignment - Get started on 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.)
- Milestones
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
- Assignment - Wikipedia assignment blog
EDIT -- Wiki Edu has this set up as a blog exercise (weekly) - that's not how we'll do this, but we'll engage these questions in class and Canvas discussions throughout the semester ~Prof. D.~
Begin a blog about your experiences. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, or reflect on the research and writing process. Create at least one blog entry each week during the Wikipedia assignment.
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 8 February 2021 | Thursday, 11 February 2021
- In class - Discussion
- Assignment - Begin to Browse Possibilities (You'll choose in groups, a little later)
Post to another discussion board on Canvas a general direction in terms of where your interests lie in terms of this project and I'll aim to group folks according to intersecting interests!!
OUR SOURCES TO CHOOSE FROM:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Feminists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Activists
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 15 February 2021 | Thursday, 18 February 2021
- Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia
Wendi Warren Binford (example)
Pauline Redmond Coggs (example)
Edmonia Highgate (example)
Andrea Ivory (example)
I recommend that you use our sample articles above. You may also use any other blue-linked woman you come across on the crowd sourced lists I provide below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Feminists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Activists
So the first slide of the evaluation exercise assignment is not necessary for us since we have preselected options for you to evaluate. Please let me know if you run into any issues with this exercise.
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 22 February 2021 | Thursday, 25 February 2021
- In class - Groups will be created!
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 1 March 2021 | Thursday, 4 March 2021
- In class - Library Info Session
- Assignment - Pick Your Person!! Begin Research
OUR SOURCES TO CHOOSE FROM:
NOTE choose a few backups in case you don't find enough info in your research
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Feminists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Activists
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 8 March 2021 | Thursday, 11 March 2021
- Assignment - Write Up your research! (also keep track of "network" links)
Keeping in mind some of the pointers about paraphrasing and avoiding plagiarism, everyone should write up a few of their sources in the group googledoc. So, you'll be writing in your own words key information that you are getting from your source/s about your person. '''GOAL: At least TWO sentences for each individual student, put into the googledoc. This can be completed by the end of the weekend, to keep us out of doing work during wellness week!!
As well --- begin to compile a list of "related" wikipedia articles from which your person could be linked TO once the page exists. These establish your person's network, and will be key in driving readership to your pages.
- In class - Discussion
- Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Editing_Wikipedia_Articles_Biographies.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons
- Assignment - Add to an article
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 15 March 2021 | Thursday, 18 March 2021
- In class - WELLNESS WEEK
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 22 March 2021 | Thursday, 25 March 2021
- Assignment - Start drafting your contributions
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
- Milestones
Choose whose sandbox your group will be using and post the info at the top of the shared googledoc so that I know where to be looking. You can also use the googledoc as a preliminary planning space regarding who will take care of what and which parts of the profile you'll work on.
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
- In class - Discussion
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 29 March 2021 | Thursday, 1 April 2021
- In class - CONFERENCES with Prof D on Thursday 3/25 and Monday 3/29
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 5 April 2021 | Thursday, 8 April 2021
- Assignment - DRAFTS FINISHED IN SANDBOXES
By midnight on Friday please have your drafts ready for peer review in the sandboxes.
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 12 April 2021 | Thursday, 15 April 2021
- Assignment - Peer review two articles
Guiding frameworkPeer reviews will be assigned on Friday. UPDATE -- By 9am on Wednesday please have your peer reviews completed. Office Hours will also be available Wednesday!
- Milestones
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
- Assignment - Respond to your peer review
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.
Make any suggested changes, follow up with me in office hours if you have questions!
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 19 April 2021 | Thursday, 22 April 2021
- Assignment - Continue improving 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.
- Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
Week 14
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 26 April 2021
- Assignment - Polish your work
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!
- Assignment - Final article
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!
- Assignment - In-class presentation
Week 15
- Milestones
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
- Assignment - Reflective essay