On 6/4/12 10:18 AM, "gendergap-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org"
<gendergap-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:44:06 +0200
From: Caroline Becker <carobecker54(a)gmail.com>
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
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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(a)gmail.com>
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
<gendergap(a)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