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Summer-long Edit-a-thon on Literacy  This summer, we are working to revise Literacy so that the article represents key knowledge about writing, power, and technology. Please join us in setting goals and coordinating collaborations to organize, expand, and improve the article. Take action by... 1. Reviewing our core goals: Head to our core goals section to get a sense of our main priorities for article revision. 3. Collaborating on tasks: Use our sections on bodies of scholarship, incorporating global perspectives, writing series template, and task list to help create a personalized plan for revision throughout the summer. 2. Signing up with a goal: Edit our setting goals section with your suggested plan for the summer. See our writing recommendations section for suggested tasks based on weekly time segments.
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Writing recommendations[edit]
Create achievable goals for the summer. Here are a few writing recommendations based on weekly time segments:
If you have fifteen minutes each week . . .
- Add a few citations
- Add resources to the 'External links' section
- Contribute a few articles to our writing series planning document
- Suggest revisions and point to sources on the talk page
- Edit a section for concision and clarity
If you have thirty minutes each week . . .
- Expand a pre-existing section of the article
- Collaborate with another participant to create a new section from our heading structure list
- Edit across sections to adjust wording that reinforces problematic ideas about literacy
- Look for areas where literacy could be more broadly defined and add a sentence or paragraph to help round out the existing text
If you have an hour or more each week . . .
- Create a new section from our heading structure list
Core goals[edit]
- Target high-impact topics: Understanding literacy/illiteracy, childhood literacy, and adult literacy with attention to the different resources, skills, and factors that contribute to these topics are common questions that bring people to the literacy article. Since these topics will be heavily trafficked, it is critical to revise, expand, or create these sections.
- Combat knowledge inequities: The current iteration of the literacy article contains several sections that reflect outdated, misleading, and inequitable understandings of literacy. We will provide a more equitable understanding of literacy by addressing key ideological frameworks like technology, power structures, and writing systems.
- Address tensions: Embedded in literacy are concepts, ideologies, applications, and biases that need be addressed. We need to incorporate global perspectives of literacy while moving away from deficit-driven narratives, anti-ableist understandings of literacy while moving away from ableist understandings, and literacy as alphabetic or spoken verses multimodal and embodied.
- Implement a new article structure: To implement these goals in practice, WikiProject Writing participants have outlined a list of new headings to be added to the article:
- Common definitions and uses
- Technology and literacy (knowledge transfer)
- Systems and literacy
- Teaching reading and writing
- Autonomous Literacy verses ideological literacy definitions
- Colonization and its impact on literacy - and its impact on common man
- History: how colonization ensured that locals were unable to have access to education and its impacts till today
- Contextual literacy and success rates
- Code literacy
- Digital Literacy (subheading: Critical digital literacy)
- Sign language literacy
- Literacy around the world (subheadings: countries in alphabetical order)
- Cognitive literacy
Task list[edit]
- Draft and post a talk page message describing our plan for revising the article. Cite manual of style to gain concensus/support from other editors on restructuring headings
- Swap sections 4 (history) and 5 (modern literacy)
- Add writing to writing systems - history of scripts
- Reframe “By continent” - Global story is not a deficit story about low reading levels
- Give defined spaces to areas where lots of energies for controversies can be carried out
- In national sections talk about different approaches to teaching reading and writing and not just deficit oriented rates
- Teaching literacy section needs to be revised with an understanding of reading and writing as connected in all languages
- Create a template for a series (of Wikipedia articles) on Writing (e.g. Reading series template)
- Literacy as a topic needs to refer to how the concept of “literacy” developed and how “illiteracy,” as a term, came into being – autonomous model vs. ideological model of literacy
- The concept of multiliteracies needs to be expanded to include foreign language teaching curriculum as well.
- The part on literacy in China needs to be expanded. According to the national census in May 2021, the illiteracy rate is 2.67%. The number of Chinese characters recognized has been a main measurement of being literate.
Bodies of scholarship[edit]
Check out our collaborative google doc on different bodies of scholarship/scholars to gain perspective for the article. Help us by continuing to add and modify the document.
Incorporating global perspectives[edit]
Currently, there are over 325 language Wikipedias that exist and develop separate from one another. Each language Wikipedia contains different articles, and therefore different articles on Literacy. Here we have listed a few resources that aid in finding and translating different language Wikipedias' articles on literacy into the English version of literacy (our focus for this edit-a-thon).
Literacy articles by language[edit]
Here is a list of all 104 articles on literacy that exist on Wikipedia. Search for a language in the leftmost column to find it's unique article on literacy. If you do not find the language you're looking for, this means the article has not yet been created on that language Wikipedia.
Translation best practices[edit]
WikiProject Writing has developed a translation task force with guidance on how to find articles on different language Wikipedias, integrate articles from one language Wikipedia to another, and other helpful best practices.
Writing series template[edit]
WikiProject Writing is working to compile a list of articles foundational to writing. We are following the example set by the reading series. Contribute key categories and articles to our shared google doc below:
Setting goals[edit]
Click on the sign up button to add your name to our participants list and set goals for the month.
Editing resources[edit]
- Creating article drafts
- Tutorial on drafting articles
- Wikipedia editing for researchers, scholars, and academics
- Citing your own work
- Notability criteria for academic and technical books
Advice[edit]
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- CCCCWI Advice Manual: Getting Input From the Community
- Cite established guidelines when interacting with the community. These are community-generated and drive concensus building:
Dealing with disputes[edit]
- If you encounter a dispute or disagreement, follow the guidance below:
- If an article content question is just between two editors, you can simply and quickly ask for a third opinion on the Third opinion page.
- If more than two editors are involved or the issue is complex, dispute resolution is available through the Dispute resolution noticeboard.
Summer events & office hours[edit]
This summer, the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative is hosting three workshops dedicated to introducing the spotlight, setting goals, and coordinating collaborations. Additionally, we will be hosting three coffeehouses focused on contributing to the literacy article. 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:
Summer-long Edit-a-thon on Literacy Workshop
Friday 6/10 @ 1:30pm-3:00pm EST
(limited to 15 participants)
This workshop will introduce scholars to the Summer-long Edit-a-thon on Literacy event page and address core goals for revision, key collaboration tools and practices, and goal setting.
CCCCWI Coffeehouse (Streaming on Twitch)
Friday 6/24, 7/22, and 8/19 @ 1:00pm-2:00pm EST
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. This summer, we will be focusing on contributing to WikiProject Writing’s Literacy Summer-long Edit-a-thon.
Summer-Long Edit-a-thon on Literacy Workshop
Friday 7/8 @ 3:00pm-4:30pm EST
(limited to 15 participants)
This workshop will introduce scholars to the Summer-long Edit-a-thon on Literacy event page and address core goals for revision, key collaboration tools and practices, and goal setting.
Summer-Long Edit-a-thon on Literacy Workshop
Friday 8/5 @ 12:00pm-1:30pm EST
(limited to 15 participants)
This workshop will introduce scholars to the Summer-long Edit-a-thon on Literacy event page and address core goals for revision, key collaboration tools and practices, and goal setting. Join us in our final push to revise the article on literacy!
Mondays through Friday OR by appointment
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).
Past spotlights[edit]
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Participants[edit]
- Breadyornot (talk) (I am interested in working on developing understanding of how to organize and collaborate with the Summer-long Edit-a-thon on Literacy) 17:33, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
- PurpleProses (talk) (I am planning on working on the articles for Jacqueline Jones Royster and Gwendolyn D. Pough) 20:12, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
- PurpleProses I will begin to work on the secondary writing page.