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This course will explore the work of reading, writing, and publishing feminist texts and theories, emphasizing the historical context and means of production of feminist scholarship. Topics will include inquiries into various feminist presses, writing and media collectives, women’s studies journals, and digital archives (such as the Kitchen Table/Women of Color Press, the Feminist Press, the Combahee River Collective, Triple Jeopardy, Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, off our backs, Feminist Theory, Meridians, WSQ, GLQ, TSQ; feministkilljoys, equalityarchives). The course will also demystify the work of submitting to and editing for an interdisciplinary journal of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.
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:
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.)
During this exercise, you'll evaluate an article realted to your feminist publishing topic on Wikipedia in preparation for drafting improvements to the article. For help finding a related topic on Wikipedia, use the "Finding your article" training above. Once you've evaluated your article, review the "finalize your topic" exercise.
Evaluate an article
Finalize your topic / Find your sources
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Thinking about sources and plagiarism
What's a content gap?
This week and next you should be working on your draft of your Wikipedia assignment in your Sandbox.
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
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Guiding framework
Please review the "Guding Framework" while completing your peer review and use the "Thinking about Wikipedia" prompts to inform your discussions today.
Thinking about Wikipedia
Guiding framework
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Befre next week when we move our work live, consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.
Resources:
After you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace." For help, review the "Moving out of your Sandbox" training.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
Once your work is live, 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.
Add links to your article
Before completing your assignment....
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.