Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Hollins University/Designing Women (Fall 2022)
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- Course name
- Designing Women
- Institution
- Hollins University
- Instructor
- Maryke Barber
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Architecture
- Course dates
- 2022-08-31 00:00:00 UTC – 2022-12-12 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 15
Over the course of this semester, we have considered why architecture remains among the most male-dominated of all the professions. Moreover, when women have been able to work as architects, their production has often been overlooked or ignored. This assignment will give students the opportunity to participate directly in the documentation of women’s contributions to the built environment.
Your assignments will consist of two parts. First, you will research the work of a specific woman architect, to be selected from the lists of female architects and designers given here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Women_architects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_architects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_women_interior_designers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Interior_designers
To see this list, click on the gray button labeled "Do It!": https://tinyurl(.)com/yd9rngcn (article stubs for women architects)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Architect_stubs (more stubs, some women)
Women in Red (no article exists yet):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Architecture
You will work to find five additional sources for the architect you chose, to be incorporated into their Wikipedia page. Like architecture, editing Wikipedia is a male-dominated field. This assignment also addresses imbalance by having you learn to edit Wikipedia and add your sources to the article’s reference list.
You will also write a 2000-word essay that will discuss your chosen architect’s more in-depth, and incorporate one of the themes that we have addressed in class.
Timeline
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 18 October 2022 | Thursday, 20 October 2022
- In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment
Welcome to the Wikipedia assignment timeline! The timeline guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules to help you complete each step.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.
- Due By 9/29
- Choose your architect or designer, create a Wikipedia account
By class time, Thursday, Sept. 29:
- Choose your subject: select any of the bios from the lists provided in the "Designing Women" description on the Home page.
- Create a Wikipedia account. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, if you receive a message that you cannot create an account, you may need to wait and try again off campus, or the next day.)
- Join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.
- Assignment - Due by 10/18
- Learn about Wikipedia
By class time, Tuesday 10/18:
- First, make sure you have joined this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.
- Complete the two Training Modules above.
- Have information (including links and citations) for two potential sources:
- One source should be specifically about your subject;
- The second source should be about the type of work they did, or their peer architects/designers, etc. ( a contextual source)
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 25 October 2022 | Thursday, 27 October 2022
- Next
- look for sources, draft in the sandbox
By the next deadline (11/17) you should have a draft in your sandbox for adding at least 3 new sources to your chosen article. The following steps will help you get there:
- Step 1
- Sources for Wikipedia & what's a sandbox?
For this assignment, you're being asked to contributea final number of at least 5 sources. These sources must conform to Wikipedia's standards for authoratitive publications. The first module will help you understand what sources meet the standards for Wikipedia articles; the second module will introduce you to your sandbox, where you will draft your work.
- Step 2
- Collect your sources in the Sandbox
Use these weeks to collect at least 3 of your sources in your Sandbox.
Don't forget you can ask for help from:
- your librarians, Sara (spraguesa
hollins.edu) and Maryke (mbarberhollins.edu) - your professor, and your SSL
- or ask question of the Wikipedia Expert using the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Additional resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
- Helpful Tip
- Editing Biographies
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 1 November 2022 | Thursday, 3 November 2022
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 8 November 2022 | Thursday, 10 November 2022
- Got Questions?
If you have questions or want feedback on a draft of your work, email Maryke (mbarber
hollins.edu), Sara (spraguesahollins.edu) or Prof. Hendricks. We are here to help!
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 15 November 2022 | Thursday, 17 November 2022
- Assignment - Due by 11/17
- Sandbox draft work
You will create a draft in your Wikipedia sandbox, using at least 3 of your sources. Include each section of the article in which you'll be updating information.
- NEXT
- begin moving your work to Wikipedia (due date: 11/29)
====== Use the trainings and exercises here to help move your sources into your articles.
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Exercise
- Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 29 November 2022 | Thursday, 1 December 2022
- Assignment - Wikipedia work completed
By class time 11/29, your edits should be moved out of the sandbox and submitted in Wikipedia.
Week 14
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 6 December 2022 | Thursday, 8 December 2022