User:PhDeviate/WGS Assignment

One of your options for a final project for WGS111 ("Women, Culture, and History" at Suffolk University) will be to craft a well-researched and cited article for the WikiProject Women's History Project. You may choose any historical figure, event, or topic related to the themes of this course. Before submitting to me your topic proposal, check the currently available wikipedia pages. You may cover any topic that is currently only treated on wikipedia as a "Stub" or "Start" level. (Link to definitions)

In order to complete this assignment, first create a wikipedia user account following the directions provided by wikipedia. After creating a user account, create a page for the article you will draft as a sub-page of your user page. To do this, go to your user page, and type a forward slash (/) into the address bar and the name of the page you would like to create. e.g. My user name is PhDeviate. My user page is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PhDeviate. When on this page if I go to the address bar and add to it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PhDeviate/Final_Project, the wiki software will begin the process of creating a page for my final project. Navigate to this page and the system will show you where to click to create and start editing that page. That page will be the page that I will ultimately visit to assess your final project.

Visit the home page for the WikiProject Women's History Project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women's_History and read the documentation there. Your ability to follow the goals and policies of this project will be part of your assessment. To help you brainstorm specific topic ideas, you may visit the page of stubs for this project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Stub-Class_Women's_History_articles or the list of pages that people have requested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women's_History/Requested_articles Another place to look is the grid of "Women's History articles by quality and importance" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women's_History/Assessment#Current_status You are most likely to find success looking at articles of "top," "high," and "mid" importance, and you may only work on articles that either do not exist yet or are of quality "start" or "stub."

Extra points will be given for active participation in and engagement with the wikipedia community by requesting feedback on your drafts and revising accordingly. Look carefully at the articles on this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women's_History labeled "Featured Articles." While it is not required that you submit it to general review by the wikipedia community (required in order to achieve a quality ranking of "GA" or "FA"), engaging the larger wikipedia community may prove useful for the development of your project.

In order to keep projects commensurate with each other, you are required to produce between 2000 and 2500 words for this assignment. The final result may not be 2000-2500 words in length, if, for example, you draft a 1500 word entry, receive feedback on it that causes you to delete 250 words and write 500 more, you will have ultimately written 2000 words, though your entry is 1750 long. This does not mean that you are encouraged to produce and re-produce inferior drafts in order to have written adequate numbers of words.