On 6/4/12 10:18 AM, "gendergap-request@lists.wikimedia.org" gendergap-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:44:06 +0200 From: Caroline Becker carobecker54@gmail.com To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Gendergap] New WikiProject Feminism Articles from WSG students This is an awesome project :) I would be really interested in reading your feedback on the experiment, both from you and your students. I'm especially interested in knowing how you dealt with NPOV.
Thank you, Caroline. That proved to be a really stimulating part of the course for all of us. Since our small WGS program doesn't have a feminist methodology course, I decided to incorporate that into the capstone, and assigned Joey Sprague's _Feminist Methodologies for Critical Researchers_ along side relevant Wikipedia policy and instruction pages about NPOV, no original research, etc. It lead to many productive class discussions about epistemology, the nature of research, etc. I think I'll eventually prepare a conference presentation (maybe an article?) about it.
-EAK
Message: 4 Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:15:01 -0500 From: Gobonobo gobonobo@gmail.com To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Gendergap] New WikiProject Feminism Articles from WSG students
This is excellent. I look forward to seeing these articles go live and would be happy to help. Did you know about the Wikipedia Education Program http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program? It might be a little late in this course, but for future reference the United States Education Program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:USEDU connects US universities with Wikipedia editors that can assist with class projects.
Thank you, Gobonobo. I did make contact with the Education Program before the term started, but between our location and timing -- my school is one of the few U.S. holdouts on the quarter system (three ten-week terms, from late September to mid-June) -- it wasn't possible to find an ambassador available to work with us. Possibly next year -- I'm scheduled to teach this course again in the spring term of 2013, and even though we're not *quite* finished, the Wikipedia project feels like a success.
-EAK