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November, 2025 Event[edit]Restoring “Students’ Right to Their Own Language” on Wikipedia[edit]Greetings from the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative! We are excited to invite you to our fall 2025 event, Restoring “Students' Right to Their Own Language” on Wikipedia, to be held on Friday, November 14, 2pm ET / 11am PT via Zoom. Keep reading to learn more about this event focused on students’ language rights, Wikipedia's deletion processes, and how we can work together to restore and protect vital disciplinary knowledge in Wikipedia. Please register in advance to attend. November 14, 2024, 2-4pm ET / 11am-1pm PT: Join us for a discussion and collaborative editing session focused on the deleted Wikipedia article “Students' Right to Their Own Language.” In this online event, we welcome the UC Santa Barbara student who created the article to tell us about her editing experience and what motivated her to focus on the topic in the first place. We’ll also explore why this foundational document in Writing Studies was removed from Wikipedia and how we can work collectively to restore and improve this article. Together, we'll examine Wikipedia's sourcing policy, discuss strategies for building a stronger article, and begin the work of bringing this crucial piece of our disciplinary history back to one of the world's most-visited knowledge resources. Register today to secure your place. Please register in advance register in advance to attend. Spots are limited! What to Expect[edit]The 1974 resolution Students' Right to Their Own Language (STROL) stands as a landmark statement in Writing Studies, and is without a doubt notable and worth representation both in the field and beyond it. So why was the Wikipedia article focused on this statement deleted? In this session, we'll discuss what happened, why it matters, and what we can do about it. This interactive event will provide opportunities for attendees to hear from the original creator of the article, learn about Wikipedia's deletion processes, contribute ideas for rebuilding the article, and participate in collaborative editing. Whether you're a Wikipedia veteran or curious newcomer, your voice and expertise can help ensure that this vital piece of our field's history has a presence on one of the world's most influential knowledge platforms. Want to contribute to our Zotero bibliography on STROL? Check out what sources we’ve added so far, and add additional references here: https://www.zotero.org/groups/6225390/strol Learn more about us[edit]One of the most visited websites in the world, Wikipedia has emerged within living memory as a key knowledge-broker and perception-shaper for readers and writers worldwide. Writing expert knowledge into Wikipedia is one important way we can address knowledge gaps, imbalances, and misinformation online. Established in 2019, the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative proceeds from the conviction that it matters to edit Wikipedia, especially for academics committed to knowledge equity as a fundamental groundwork for social justice. The CCCC Wikipedia Initiative is working to develop skills, cultivate inclusive community, and build structures of support and recognition for past, present, and future CCCC members who recognize the importance of engaging with Wikipedia as a form of global public humanities scholarship. Mission: Citation equity & justice[edit]In the CCCC Position Statement on Citation Justice in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies, writing scholars are called to recognize that "citation is not only a way we build ethos and credibility for making arguments, but perhaps more importantly, a decision to amplify some voices over others, and an argument about whose voices and perspectives are valid, credible, and worth drawing from as we build knowledge in the discipline." As a highly viewed, global, open-access, digital encyclopedia, Wikipedia stands out as one of the most vital platforms scholars can edit to support citation justice, especially for academics committed to knowledge equity as a fundamental groundwork for social justice. When writing in citations and content that represent the diversity of fields and subfields in writing studies, we encourage scholars to practice the following heuristic put forth by the CCCC Position Statement on Citation Justice in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies:
Get started[edit]After logging in or creating an account, check out our organizing guide to get started. Writing recommendations[edit]Here are a few writing recommendations based on weekly time segments. Whether you plan to host a standalone event or a continuous writing group, here are a few tips to help promote sustainable contributions past the event end date: If you have fifteen minutes each week . . .
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Article worklist[edit]Check out our open tasks and past spotlights to find relevant articles for your event or writing group: Open tasks[edit]Past spotlights[edit]
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