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Interested in hosting an event or writing group or looking for events catered to engaging comp/rhet scholars on Wikipedia?

Explore our organizing guide, writing recommendations, and article worklists to start planning.


Mission: Citation equity & justice

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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:

  • Citation justice is intersectional.
  • Citation justice reflects the full scope of multiply marginalized people’s intellectual contributions.
  • Citation justice resists and rejects intellectual empire building.
  • Citation justice is accountable.

Get started

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After logging in or creating an account, check out our organizing guide to get started.

Writing recommendations

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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 . . .

  • Add a few citations to an article
  • Add a few selected publications or notable awards to a biography of an academic
  • Suggest revisions and point to sources on the talk page

If you have thirty minutes each week . . .

  • Expand a stub 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 (redlinks)

Article worklist

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Check out our open tasks and past spotlights to find relevant articles for your event or writing group:

Open tasks

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Past spotlights

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Get help

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Feeling stuck or need help getting started?

  • Check our resources page for general advice, editing resources, and other useful information.
  • Join the WikiProject Writing listserv here to ask questions from other comp/rhet scholars editing Wikipedia and Wikimedia support staff.