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Past spotlights • Writing recommendations • Article worklist • Sources to get us started •Resources • October workshops & office hours Defining Disability WikiProject Writing logo in blue This month, we are working on defining disability by addressing vital and key articles related to disability and disability studies. We aim to work together to address inequities on Wikipedia as we create and contribute to these articles. Our main goals are to . . . 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. Collaborate on an article: Use our resources section to help create a draft, assess notability, find sources, and request feedback. Past spotlights September 2021: Five Major Fields and Figures May 2021 - August 2021: WikiProject Writing Summer-long Edit-a-thon April 2021: Spotlight on Rhetorics of Climate Change & Environmental Activism March 2021: Centering BIPOC Women in Writing Studies Writing recommendations Find an article you are interested in working on from our article worklist below. Create achievable goals for the month. Here are a few writing recommendations based on weekly time segments: If you have fifteen minutes each week . . . Add a few citations to an article Add notable scholarship and resources to the 'See also' section of an article Suggest revisions and point to sources on the talk page If you have thirty minutes each week . . . Expand an article with a new section or a few paragraphs If you have an hour or more each week . . . Draft an article in need of creation and link it to a pre-exisitng high-traffic article (redlinks) Restructure a pre-exisiting article (make sure to suggest your revisions on the talk page first!) Article worklist Here we have listed a few vital and key articles for you to edit and contribute to throughout the month. Vital articles Vital articles are lists of subjects for which the English Wikipedia should have corresponding featured-class articles. They serve as centralized watchlists to track the quality status of Wikipedia's most important articles and to give editors guidance on which articles to prioritize for improvement. Article How vital? Quality rank Avg. monthly pageviews Notes on work needed (feel free to add notes!) Disability Level 3 C-class 21,400 Terminology section needs to be expanded The "causes" section needs to be expanded to reflect the social model and the history of capitalism Ableism Level 5 C-class 19,620 "Education" section and others need expansion and scholarly sources Other key articles These articles are high-traffic and high-importance articles that define public understandings of disability. Quality rank Quality rank Avg. monthly pageviews Notes on work needed (feel free to add notes) Reasonable accommodation Start-class 1,752 Needs a section on education Accessibility C-class 7,208 Sections on employment and disability management need to be expanded Universal design Start-class 4,794 Principles of design need to expanded with a greater definition and their importance The article doesn't speak to the history of design as fitting for the “ideal person” and the shift from use for the ideal person to the most expansive use for multiple users. Disability studies C-class 1,942 The section on medical humanities needs to be expanded Disability justice C-class 548 Needs more emphasis on the intersectional goals of this framework Sources to get us started Here we have begun a list of scholarship and resources to inspire edits and contributions. Please add relevant sources to this list! Dolmage, Jay Timothy. Disability Rhetoric. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. 2014. Ho, Ai Binh T. et al. “Cripping Neutrality: Student Resistance, Pedagogical Audiences, and Teachers’ Accommodations.” Pedagogy, vol. 20, issue 1, 2020, pp. 127-139. Kerschbaum, Stephanie L. “Signs of Disability, Disclosing.” Enculturation, 2019 Price, Margaret. “Disability Studies Methodology: Explaining Ourselves to Ourselves.” Practicing Research in Writing Studies: Reflexive and Ethically Responsible Research. Ed. Katrina M. Powell & Pamela Takayoshi. New York: Hampton Press, 2012. 159-186. https://disstudies.org/index.php/about-sds/what-is-disability-studies/ https://daily.jstor.org/reading-list-disability-studies/ https://disabilitystudies.washington.edu/what-is-disability-studies https://cdrnys.org/blog/disability-politics/the-ugly-side-of-disability-rhetoric/ Setting goals Sign up here Add your username, goals for article creation, and any specific articles you'll be working on below, alongside your name and a goal or goals you aim to achieve by the end of the month. Additionally, if you plan to collaborate on an article with another participant or participants you may opt to list collaborators and/or invite others to join you. Copy and paste this format and only change what is within the (parentheses). Add this with a new bullet point below the other participants' sign ups: ~~~ (This month I plan to...) ~~~~~ Resources WikiProject Disability Style Guide CCCCWI Advice Manual: Creating article drafts Tutorial on drafting articles CCCCWI Advice Manual: Biographies of academics Wikipedia editing for researchers, scholars, and academics Citing your own work Notability criteria for academic biographies Notability criteria for academic and technical books CCCCWI Advice Manual: Getting Input From the Community October workshops & office hours The CCCC Wikipedia Initiative hosts monthly workshops & office hours. 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 Coffeehouse (Now Streaming on Twitch) Friday 10/1, 10/15, and 10/29 @ 1:00pm-3:00PM EST Join here Drop-in whenever you'd like on Friday, October 1st, 15th, and 29th from 1:00pm-3:00pm EST for an informal virtual writing group. The CCCC Wikipedian-in-Residence and the CCCC Graduate Fellows will live edit Wikipedia via Twitch on a different topic focus each week. Although we cannot meet physically, we wish to create a online space where scholars can get together and chat about our work. Whether you are working on a project, plan on adding a few sources to an article, or just want to chat with other scholars, this is a great space to do so. Wikipedia as Public Scholarship Friday 10/8 @ 3:00pm-4:30pm EST Register (limited to 10 participants) This introductory workshop covers editing basics with particular attention to some of the specific concerns experts face on Wikipedia and discussion of how academics can use their expertise to advance knowledge equity online. Topics include navigating privacy issues, concerns around conflict of interest, and strategies for getting started with articles that need a lot of work. Getting Started with WikiProject Writing Friday 10/22 @ 12:00pm-1:30pm EST Register (limited to 10 participants) This intermediate workshop introduces WikiProject Writing as a collaborative space for coordinating efforts to improve Wikipedia articles related to our areas of expertise. Topics include defining the scope of WikiProject Writing by tagging articles, directing the priorities of WikiProject Writing by assessing articles, and adding to and working from our list of articles in need of work and creation. CCCCWI Office Hours Mondays & Tuesdays OR by appointment Register 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 on Mondays and Tuesdays or email me to suggest another time (savannahcragin@berkeley.edu).