This month, we are working to prioritize the inclusion of multilingual writers to promote digital equity. We aim to work together to address inequities on Wikipedia as we create and contribute to these articles.
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. Create or collaborate on an article: Use our Editing resources section to help create a draft, assess notability, find sources, and request feedback.
New to Wikipedia? Check out our resources page for a step-by-step guide on how to get started.
Below are lists of Wikipedia articles in need of edits and creation. Scholars and key topics linked in 'red' are articles that have yet to be created on Wikipedia.
Alongside each scholar, we've suggested one field-specific article and one general interest, high impact article to incorporate relevant scholarship into. In addition, there is a section for establishing notability. The sources listed there are important to include to signal to other Wikipedia editors that the scholar is notable enough to have an article written on them.
Canagarajah, S. (2002). Multilingual writers and the academic community: Towards a critical relationship. Journal of English for academic purposes.
Canagarajah, S. (2006). Toward a writing pedagogy of shuttling between languages: Learning from multilingual writers. College English 68(6), Cross-Language Relations in Composition (Jul., 2006), pp. 589-604. https://doi.org/10.2307/25472177
Resta, P., Laferrière, T., McLaughlin, R. (2018). Issues and challenges related to digital equity: An overview. In: J. Voogt et al. (eds.), Second Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education, Springer International Handbooks of Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71054-9_67.
Resta, P., Laferrière, T. (2008). Issues and Challenges Related to Digital Equity. In: Voogt, J., Knezek, G. (eds) International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education. Springer International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education, 20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73315-9_44.
Dobson, T.M. & Willinsky, J. (2009). Digital Literacy. In The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society. pp.286-312
Martin, A. (2008). Digital Literacy and the ‘‘Digital Society’’. In Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and Practices, pp.151-176.
Price-Dennis, D., Holmes, K.A., Smith, E. (2015). Exploring Digital Literacy Practices in an Inclusive Classroom. The Reading Teacher. https://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.1398.
Kurniawati, N., Maolida, E., and Anjaniputra, A.G. (2018). The Praxis of Digital Literacy in the EFL Classroom: Digital-Immigrant vs Digital-Native Teacher. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics 8(1). https://doi.org/10.17509/ijal.v8i1.11459.
Haas, Angela M. “Toward a Digital Cultural Rhetoric.” The Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric, edited by Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes, 1st ed., Routledge, 2018, pp. 412–22
The CCCC Wikipedia Initiative hosts monthly workshops, office hours, and coffeehouses. 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.
CCCCWI Speaker Series: Multilingual Writers in Digital Space[edit]
This month, join us in discussing multilingual writers' experiences in digital space and improving knowledge equity on Wikipedia. Alexandra Krasova — a PhD Candidate in Composition and Applied Linguistics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania — will share her research on multilingual students’ writing practices and reflect on multilingual writers’ experiences in digital space. She will explain why it is important to include multilingual writers to promote digital equity and inclusivity. Finally, Alexandra will focus on multilinguals in Wikipedia and discuss the reasons why their practices vary and how it contributes to knowledge equity.
After the talk, participants will be trained on how to edit Wikipedia. After training, participants will have the opportunity to improve and create Wikipedia articles related to pivotal scholars and scholarship about multilingual writers in digital space.
Curious about how different people navigate editing Wikipedia? Drop-in whenever you'd like from 1:00pm-2:00pm ET on Twitch where CCCC scholars and/or the CCCC Wikipedian-in-residence will live edit Wikipedia on a different topic focus.
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 or email me to suggest another time (savannahcragin@berkeley.edu).
