Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Washington/Global Feminist Art (Winter 2015)
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- Course name
- Global Feminist Art
- Institution
- University of Washington
- Instructor
- Sasha Welland
- Subject
- Anthropology; Art History; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
- Course dates
- 2016-01-04 – 2016-03-11
- Approximate number of student editors
- 111
On February 1, 2014, approximately 600 participants, convened in 31 locations in 6 countries to edit Wikipedia articles on women and the arts. During this day, at least 101 new articles were created, and at least 90 articles improved. One year later, over 1500 participants at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and more than 75 satellite events around the world participated in Art + Feminism’s second annual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, resulting in the creation of nearly 400 new pages and significant improvements to 500 articles on Wikipedia. Organized around International Women’s Day, the 2015 Edit-a-thon was designed to generate coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia and encourage female editorship — a response to the well-known gender gap on Wikipedia. For more information, see http://art.plusfeminism.org.
This assignment asks you to join this growing movement by identifying Wikipedia gaps and providing documentation to help fill them. You will think critically about how Wikipedia in its current formation structurally limits knowledge about feminism and art, and then to contribute to changing this situation. This assignment is not due until week 7, but you are encouraged to start thinking about it earlier as a way to research and think more deeply about artists, topics, and ideas introduced in the course. You can explore your own interests and passions with an eye toward contributing to public knowledge!
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 3 February 2016
- Assignment - Wikipedia Training
This training will provide you with the Wikipedia basics you'll need to understand in order to complete the assignment. You can start this training as soon as you'd like, but to stay on track, be sure to complete it by the end of Week 6 of the quarter (2/13).
The total estimated time to complete this training is 48 min (23 for Wikipedia Essentials; 15 for Evaluating Articles and Sources; and 10 for Sources and Citations).
You should complete this training before moving on to the next step: the Gap Analysis assignment.
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 8 February 2016 | Wednesday, 10 February 2016
- Milestones
Now that you've completed the Wikipedia basic training, you can get into the nitty-gritty of your gap analysis.
- Identify a course-related artist, topic, concept, or movement. You can begin with material discussed in class but are also encouraged to move beyond it, following your own interests. Check out, for example:
- additional books of interest on reserve for the course (see syllabus for titles)
- Brooklyn Museum Sackler Center for Feminist Art Base: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/
- Art + Feminism’s Additional Resources: http://art.plusfeminism.org/resources/more
- the journal n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal (you have online access to it through the UW Libraries and issues are on the shelf in Suzzallo/Allen under the call number N72.F45 N73)
- Wikipedia’s Category for "Feminism and the arts": Category:Feminism and the arts
- Search Wikipedia for coverage of your selected topic. What do you find? Can you identify any gaps? (If not, you may want to think about another topic. Give yourself some time to explore a variety of ideas.) Examples of Wikipedia article gaps:
- Artists: There is no page for the artist you are interested in; the information on the page is sparse or limited; there aren’t links in the article to movements or forms of art they contributed to; there is a link to male artists they were in conversation with, but not vice versa.
- Media and Movements: The media (e.g. performance art) or the movement (e.g. British Black Arts Movement) does not include significant or relevant feminist artists, events, works, or concepts; there are missing links between artist and movement articles.
- Ideological gaps: As recently as 2013, male novelists were are categorized as “American novelists,” whereas female novelists are listed under the subcategory of “American women novelists” with no equivalent subcategory of “American men novelists.” See: this New York Times story and the ensuing discussions on Wikipedia about how to categorize novelists here and here.
- Once you have identified a gap, write a paragraph (approx. 250 words) that documents this gap, describes how you found it, and analyzes how this gap limits knowledge or structures it in a particular way along axes of power such as gender, sexuality, race, class, nationality, etc. SUGGESTION: Create a Word document for the writing and source documentation you will do for steps 3, 4, and 5. You can then cut and paste from this file into your Wikipedia submission page.
- Think about how you would fill this gap and research at least five reliable sources as defined by the Wikipedia community. Working from these resources, write at least one paragraph (approx. 250 words) that provides new content to fill the gap. This paragraph can take different forms:
- It can be the beginning of a new article for an artist or movement not currently represented in Wikipedia.
- It can be an addition to a pre-existing article. If this is the case, please provide a hyperlink to the article and indicate where your addition should be included.
- Or it can be a proposed, substantial rewrite of a pre-existing article section. If this is the case, please provide a hyperlink to the article; then cut and paste the text of the current section into your document, followed by your rewritten version.
- Document your sources according to Wikipedia conventions on citing sources.
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 17 February 2016
- Assignment - Complete & Submit Gap Analysis
- Click here: 19 March 2016 (UTC) Submit Gap Analysis.
- Before you enter or edit anything on this page, IMMEDIATELY click the "Save Page" button at the bottom. Doing this step will let you use Wikipedia's new VisualEditor functionality.
- Now click the [edit] link next to the "Gap analysis" section header. This is immediately below the time-coded source header. To enter into VirtualEditor, click on the pencil icon at the top right of the text box. Click "Discard changes" to switch to visual editing.
- Copy and paste your article title and paragraphs over the "YOUR ANSWER HERE" prompts. If you include online sources or links to Wikipedia articles within your text, please hyperlink them, using the Link tool in the editing toolbar at the top of the page. Copy and paste your five sources over the "YOUR SOURCE HERE" prompts; OR use the Cite tool in the editing toolbar to input citations within your text and to format your sources.
- At any point in your work, you can click the blue "Save page" button on the editing toolbar. (You will be prompted to write an edit summary; this is optional.) After saving, to go back into VisualEditor mode, return to step 3 above. If you need to leave your work, keep a copy of the URL for your page so that you can return to it and continue working. The URL should look like this: en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User:YourUserName/gap_analysis.
- When you have finished and saved your work, copy the URL of your submission and submit it via the Canvas Wikipedia Gap Analysis assignment page.