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Course name
Women and Gender in the Middle East
Institution
Baruch College
Instructor
Zoe Griffith
Wikipedia Expert
Shalor (Wiki Ed)
Subject
History and Gender/Women's Studies (cross-listed)
Course dates
2019-01-28 00:00:00 UTC – 2019-05-25 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
40


This is an upper-division course cross-listed between History and Gender/Women's Studies. We will cover a range of themes in the history of women, gender, and sexuality in the Middle East and Islamic world with a focus on early modern and modern periods (roughly 1500 to the present) although students are welcome to work on earlier periods. Students will be assigned to improve underdeveloped Wikipedia pages or to create new pages on a case-by-case basis. This will be a semester-long (12-week) assignment in which they will choose pages (with my approval), identify sources, create a bibliography, research, and edit their topics.

Student Assigned Reviewing
GetanjolyRoy Women's rights in Iran
Zeeba94 Women in Iran
Samanthaaramos Transgender rights in Iran
Iclement African-American Muslims
Keser.fi Ataturk's Reforms
Armeen.junaid Burqa
MelissaBaljeet Women in Pakistan Women in Pakistan
Rachelabreu1 Toni Cade Bambara
Amani.ahmat LGBT rights in Morocco
Nicholas.tang85 Women in World War I
Cristine Chen LGBTQ IN SYRIA, LGBTQ IN SYRIA, LGBT rights in Syria
Anastasiagolev Women in the Ottoman Empire
AnarchistBat'ko Jalil Mammadguluzadeh
Kunga.Dhondup Arabian peninsula
Khandrius0824 LGBT rights in the State of Palestine, LGBT history in Israel, LGBT rights in Turkey
Khanriza Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia, Human trafficking in the Middle East Human trafficking in the Middle East
Jwei4928 Ottoman Imperial Harem
Arthursamuel48 Human rights in Dubai Human rights in Dubai
Zoeyzhou824 Women in ancient Egypt
Xwboy123 LGBT rights in the United Arab Emirates
Anastasiab12 Alafranga and alaturca
AzRashidzada The Girl in the Blue Bra
MelissaDerrick Slavery in the Ottoman Empire Slavery in the Ottoman Empire
SilviaEspinal Sexual taboo in the Middle East
Nikkigrover Women in law
Nalishasamlall
Mandropodes
Caticoatl Women in Pakistan
Hungrygh0stss
Viviang77
Trose2216
Fixinginformation
MECLASS429 Harem
Yuanyuan chen
Whitneyf97! LGBT rights in Haiti
Jeralyn1213 Women's education in Pakistan
Ajwills1204 Islam in Jamaica, Women in Qatar, Human Rights in Qatar
Quinn.Jones22 LGBT in the Middle East
Audre.wheeler80

Timeline

Week 3

Course meetings
Monday, 11 February 2019   |   Wednesday, 13 February 2019
In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment

Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:


Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 4

Course meetings
Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise

Evaluate an article


Week 5

Course meetings
Monday, 25 February 2019   |   Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Assignment - Choose possible topics

Exercise

Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6


In class - Discussion

What's a content gap?

Week 6

Course meetings
Monday, 4 March 2019   |   Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Assignment - Add to an article

Exercise

Add a citation


Week 7

Course meetings
Monday, 11 March 2019   |   Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9


Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 8

Course meetings
Monday, 18 March 2019   |   Wednesday, 20 March 2019
Assignment - First drafts due

Guiding framework

Week 9

Course meetings
Monday, 25 March 2019   |   Wednesday, 27 March 2019
In class - Peer review two articles
Milestones

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Week 10

Course meetings
Monday, 1 April 2019   |   Wednesday, 3 April 2019
Assignment - Respond to your peer review

You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:

  • Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
  • Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Week 11

Course meetings
Monday, 8 April 2019   |   Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 12

Course meetings
Monday, 15 April 2019   |   Wednesday, 17 April 2019
Assignment - Continue improving your article

Exercise

Add links to your article

Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

Week 13

Course meetings
Monday, 29 April 2019   |   Wednesday, 1 May 2019
Assignment - Polish your work

Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

Week 14

Course meetings
Monday, 6 May 2019   |   Wednesday, 8 May 2019
Assignment - Final article

It's the final week to develop your article.

  • Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
  • Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!


In class - In-class presentation

Guiding questions

Assignment - Reflective essay

Guiding questions

Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.