Asian American Activism
Event details
Date:18 February 2018
Time5pm
Where:New Cabell Hall 058
SlidesWiki + History of Asian American Activism
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Eileen Ying of University of Virginia class "History of Asian American Activism" is hosting "Asian American Activism", a Wikipedia and Wikidata editing program for the class. Students in the class will have the option of editing Wikipedia articles in the scope of class's course material.

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Overview of program[edit]

If you are going to edit Wikipedia then expect to commit 3-6 hours. In general, new editors spend 2 hours researching outside of Wikipedia per 1 they spend in Wikipedia.

To edit Wikipedia, first find a source of information that you can cite. Summarize facts from the source. Now find a Wikipedia article into which you can insert these facts. Click "edit" at the top, add your fact, cite your source, then click "publish". You are done! Most of the work is in the research, not the Wikipedia editing.

If you go further, then just repeat the research and Wikipedia editing in more depth.

  1. Create a Wikimedia account if you do not have one.
  2. please sign in so that your instructor can find your account name and the article you edited
  3. before you go to Wikipedia, identify reliable scholarly information sources on a topic. If you have no sources, you cannot edit Wikipedia!
  4. After you have sources, and you have a topic, now consider where to put information from those sources into Wikipedia
    1. If an article on the topic exists, then you can edit that article
    2. If no article exist on that topic, then you can create an article if you have multiple sources to summarize and cite. This is more work than editing an existing article
  5. If you want online training, then take the orientation. Please log in and register first, steps 1 and 2.
  6. Whatever you edit, the Wikipedia community will review your work. Wait up to a week.
  7. Now respond to any feedback you have gotten.

Schedule[edit]

Introducing Wikipedia assignment

Date: Monday 18 February 2019
Time: 5pm
Place: New Cabell Hall 058
0:00-0:05 - Welcome
0:05-0:10 - Why Wikipedia matters
0:10-0:15 - How to edit
0:15-0:20 - Overview of existing Asian American projects in Wikipedia
0:20-0:25 - questions?
0:25-0:30 - finish, and please get started in Wikipedia! Add one sentence and one citation as soon as possible!

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Date: Monday 4 March 2019?
Time: 5pm
Place: New Cabell Hall 058

By this meeting everyone should have a Wikipedia account, and have registered, and have added at least one sentence and one citation to Wikipedia. Perhaps you have even published your first draft and the Wikipedia community has reviewed your content.

0:00-0:05 - Welcome
0:05-0:10 - every ask questions
0:10-0:20 - demonstrations to answer questions
0:20-0:30 - more questions?

Resources[edit]

Source material

This project starts with off-wiki reliable sources which you will summarize and cite.

Maggie Nunley in the library has shared this list

Possible articles to edit

Please start by finding reliable sources of information on a topic which interests you. This project starts in the library by finding sources. After you have sources to summarize and cite, then either search Wikipedia for an article on that topic or browse to the most closely related topic you can find here.

  1. Category:Asian-American society
  2. Category:Asian-American issues
  3. Category:Asian-American culture

If you decide to make a new article, then please identify 3 sources which feature this new topic, and be prepared to write a few sentences and cite a few sources to create an article. It is easier to develop an existing article, but if you can write a bit extra and you have the sources, then feel free to make a new one.

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