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 Teresa 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.
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 ir 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
Alongside each biography of an academic we've suggested a few general interest articles and one 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.
Inoue, Asao B. (2014). “Theorizing Failure in U.S. Writing Assessments.” Research in the Teaching of English 48.3, 330-352.
Inoue, Asao B. (2020). “Grading Writing Is A Racist Practice.” Statement: A Magazine of the Colorado Language Arts Society, 52.1.
Inoue, Asao B., and Mya Poe. (2020). “How to Stop Harming Students: An Ecological Guide to Antiracist Writing Assessment,” Infographic. Composition Studies, 48.3, pp. 14-15.
Inoue, Asao B. (2020). “Stories about Grading Contracts, or How Do I Like Through The Violence I’ve Done?” The Journal of Writing Assessment, 13.2 (4,883 words).
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.
Bernardo, Shane, and Terese Guinsatao Monberg. “Resituating Reciprocity within Longer Legacies of Colonization: A Conversation.” Community Literacy Journal vol. 14, no. 1, 2019, pp. 83–93.
Monberg, Terese Guinsatao. “Ownership, Access, and Authority: Publishing and Circulating Histories to (Re)Member Community.” Community Literacy Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 2017, pp. 30–47.
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:
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:
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.
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.
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.
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).
