Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/2019 Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference
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2019 Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference
The event is open to registered attendees of the 2019 Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference
Registered participants in this editing workshop will join members of the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative Task Force to improve Wikipedia’s representation of intersectional feminisms and rhetorics. In the spirit of the 2019 Feminisms and Rhetorics conference theme, we will prioritize issues of inclusion and enact a DIY approach to public scholarship. The focus of the workshop will be introducing first-time and novice editors to Wikipedia through methods that will enable them to feel confident editing Wikipedia in the future, and, by extension, making the diversity of what we know available to the public via the fifth most visited website in the world. We will take action to address Wikipedia’s knowledge gaps by expanding coverage of diverse feminist rhetoricians, activists, movements, and ideas.
Please bring your own laptop, tablet, or mobile device to participate.
When
- Saturday, November 16, 2019 11AM-1PM
Where
- 2019 Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference
- Hotel Madison and Shenandoah Valley Conference Center
- Harrisonburg, VA
Register
- Register here with your Wikimedia account. Please create an account on any Wikimedia project before the workshop. You can create an account on Wikipedia here.
About Feminism and Wikipedia
editWe are excited to work with you to diversify Wikipedia's coverage of women. The vast majority (at least 85%) of Wikipedia's editors are (white) males. (See See Gender bias on Wikipedia) Although Wikipedia is among the top five most visited websites online, its content reflects the knowledge of its editors. [1] This workshop presents a unique opportunity to collaborate and work towards a great cause. We, in the subfield of Feminisms and Rhetoric, have the power to diversify Wikipedia coverage by improving and adding more articles about notable women representing a diversity of intellectual and cultural contributions.
Wikistorming Wikipedia, or crowding the space to edit its pages with more diverse content about gender, has been a popular practice among feminists since the first Art+Feminism Editathon in 2009.[2]
This global event coincides with efforts to deepen Wikipedia’s representation of women across racial/ethnic backgrounds. For example, Howard University's Black History Editathon in 2015 and AfroCROWD and the Schomburg's collaborations with AfroCrowd NYC/AfroCrowd/Schomburg_Black_Power offer powerful models for us to develop comprehensive strategies for filling Wikipedia’s content gaps, as we represent our disciplinary knowledge.[3] The organizers of this event have drawn on their comprehensive organizational resources to assist our participants and partners with Wikipedia editing.
As you consider what you’d like to edit, we encourage you to learn more about Wikipedia's gender gap at WikiProject Women, the racial gap at WikiProject African diaspora, and the race/gender gap at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Black history.
Registration and Training
editAre you a new editor? No problem! No Wikipedia editing experience is necessary.
Regardless of your experience, please know that all are welcome! If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you can get a head start with this this training module.
Sign-in Directions
edit- This is for use on the day of the event.
- 1) Select 'Sign in'
- 2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes' or 'Save changes'.
- Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.
Schedule
edit- 11:00-11:10 Why does Wikipedia Matter? Welcome and Intros
- 11:10-11:20 How does the Wikipedia Community Work? Five Pillars and Key Policies
- 11:20-11:50 Editing Basics and Getting Started
- 11:50-12:00 Networking Break
- 12:00-12:10 Select and Evaluate an Article
- 12:10-12:50 Edit (All facilitators to assist with editing)
- 12:50-01:00 Wrap-up, Next Steps, and Community Resources
Presentation
editResources for Editing
edit- Help:Getting started
- Wikipedia:Your first article
- Help:Referencing for beginners
- Creating Redirects with Visual Editor
- Creating Redirector with Source Editor
- Using categories
- Cheatsheet for Wiki markup
- Art+Feminism Editor Resources
- Writing Wikipedia Pages for Notable Women in Computing applicable to any biography writing
- Gender gap resources.
- Art+Feminism Beginner Training Videos
- Wiki Education Training Libraries
Wikipedia Policies
edit- Wikipedia:Five pillars
- Wikipedia:Core content policies
- Wikipedia:General notability guideline
- Wikipedia:Verifiability
- Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
- Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
- Wikipedia:No original research (Examples of Original Research)
- Wikipedia:Citing sources
- Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
Additional Tools and Resources
edit- Track Wikipedia Page Views
- Wikimedia Statistics
- Wiki Education Foundation
- Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules
- Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Open Access References
Definition of Open Access[4]
- Google Scholar
- Open Library
- Directory of Open Access Journals : "The Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that indexes high quality, peer reviewed Open Access research journals, periodicals and their articles' metadata. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access academic journals that use an appropriate quality control system (see below for definitions) and is not limited to particular languages or subject areas. The Directory aims to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access academic journals—regardless of size and country of origin—thereby promoting their visibility, usage and impact."
- University of California Santa Barbara’s List of Free Publicly, Accessible Databases
- Black History at Archives.gov
- WAC Clearinghouse
Wikimedia Projects
edit- Wikimedia movement
- Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia
- Wikimedia Commons, a data repository of media (images, videos and sounds). (See * Wikiproject Wikimedia Commons:GLAM Wikiproject)
- Wikidata, a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects
- Wiktionary, a dictionary
- Wikibooks, educational textbooks
- Wikinews, news articles
- Wikiquote, a collection of quotations
- Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents
- Wikiversity, educational material
- Wikivoyage, a travel guide
- Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species
Suggested Articles for Editing
editWe suggest that you begin by browsing a Wiki Project of interest to learn more about articles in need of development.
- WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Black_history
- WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_dictionary/Black_Women_in_America
- NYC/AfroCrowd/Schomburg_Black_Power (Click on the Task List)
- Art+Feminism – Tasks
- WikProject – Women artists
- WikiProject – Women in Red
- WikiProject African diaspora – Visual arts
- Category:21st-century women artists
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by dictionary/Who's Who among the Colored Baptists of the United States
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by dictionary/Women of distinction
We are also including the following articles, as follows.
This is a crowd-sourced list. Please help us by adding appropriate articles
Black Women Rhetors
editPhilosophers
- Toni Morrison
- Africana philosophy: "(...) is the work of philosophers of African descent and others whose work deals with the subject matter of the African diaspora."
- Carole Boyce-Davies
- Jacqueline Jones Royster
- Beverly Guy-Sheftall
- bell hooks
- Patricia Hill-Collins
- Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Geneva Smitherman
- Elaine Richardson
- Valerie Kinloch
Writers
- Allison Joseph: "(...) is an American poet, editor and professor. She is author of six poetry collections, most recently, My Father's Kites: Poems (Steel Toe Books, 2010)."
- Evie Shockley
- Claudia Rankine: "(...) is a poet, essayist, playwright and the editor of several anthologies. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, two plays and various essays."
- Toni Cade Bambara: "(...) was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor."
- Nikky Finney: "(...) is an American poet. She was the Guy Davenport Endowed Professor of English at the University of Kentucky for twenty years."
- Joanne Gavin
- Toi Derricotte: "(...) is an American poet and a professor of writing at University of Pittsburgh. She won a 2012 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. With Cornelius Eady, she co-founded Cave Canem Foundation, a summer workshop for African-American poets."
- Zora Neale Hurston: "(...) was an African-American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
- Victoria Earle Matthews: "(...) was an American author, essayist, newspaperwoman, settlement worker, and activist. She was born into slavery in Fort Valley, Georgia and, with her family, moved to New York City after emancipation. She attended school and worked as a domestic servant to help her family."
- Clenora Hudson-Weems: "(...) is an African-American author and academic who is currently a Professor of English at the University of Missouri. She coined the term "Africana womanism" in the late 1980s."
- Audre Lorde
- Roxane Gay
Inventors and Scientists
- Alexa Canady: "(...) is a retired American medical doctor specializing in neurosurgery. She was born in Lansing, Michigan and earned both her bachelors and medical degree from the University of Michigan. After completing her residency at the University of Minnesota in 1981, she became the first black person to become a neurosurgeon."
- Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner: "(...) was an African-American inventor most noted for her development of the sanitary belt."
- Sarah E. Goode: "(...) was an entrepreneur and inventor. She was one of the first African-American women to receive a United States patent, which she received in 1885."
- Mary Eliza Mahoney: "(...) was the first African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States, graduating in 1879. Mahoney was one of the first African Americans to graduate from a nursing school, and she prospered in a predominantly white society. She also challenged discrimination against African Americans in nursing."
- Marie Van Brittan Brown: "(...) invented the home security system (patent number 3,482,037) in 1966, along with her husband Albert Brown. Although this was not the first closed-circuit television (CCTV) system. The patent was granted in 1969. Brown was born in Queens, New York; she died there at age 76."
Fashion
- Baby Phat: "(...) is a women's clothing and urban fashion line co-founded by Kimora Lee Simmons and her husband Russell in 1998."
Musicians
- Etta Moten Barnett: "(...) was an American actress and contralto vocalist, who was identified with her signature role of "Bess" in Porgy and Bess."
- Gladys Bentley: "(...) was an American blues singer, pianist and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance."
- Lucille Bogan: "(...) was an American blues singer, among the first to be recorded. She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson."
- Lillyn Brown: "(...) was an American singer, vaudeville entertainer and teacher who claimed to be "the first professional vocalist to sing the blues in front of the public", in 1908."
- Ida Cox "(...) an African-American singer and vaudeville performer, best known for her blues performances and recordings. She was billed as "The Uncrowned Queen of the Blues".
- Katie Crippen: "(...) was an African-American entertainer and singer."
- Zelma Watson George: "(...) was a well-known African-American philanthropist who was famous for being an alternate in the United Nations General Assembly and, as a headliner in Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera The Medium, the first African American to play a role that was typically played by a white actress."
- Edna Hicks: "(...) was an American blues singer and musician."
- Lucille Hegamin: "(...) was an American singer and entertainer and an early African-American blues recording artist."
- Rosa Henderson: "(...) was an American jazz and classic female blues singer and vaudeville entertainer."
- Bertha Hill: "(...) was an American blues and vaudeville singer and dancer, best known for her recordings with Louis Armstrong."
- Alberta Hunter: "(...) was an internationally known African-American jazz singer and songwriter who had a successful career from the early 1920s to the late 1950s (she was a contemporary of Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith) and then stopped performing."
- Virginia Liston: "(...) was an American classic female blues and jazz singer. She spent most of her career in black vaudeville."
- Lizzie Miles: "(...) was the stage name of Elizabeth Mary Landreaux (March 31, 1895 – March 17, 1963), a Creole blues singer."
- Ma Rainey: "(...) was one of the earliest African American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of blues singers to record. She was billed as the Mother of the Blues."
- Clara Smith: "(...) was an African-American classic female blues singer. She was billed as the "Queen of the Moaners", in various styles, including jazz and blues."
- Trixie Smith: "(...) was an African-American blues singer, recording artist, vaudeville entertainer, and actress."
- Victoria Spivey: "(...) sometimes known as Queen Victoria, was an American blues singer and songwriter. During a recording career that spanned 40 years, from 1926 to the mid-1960s, she worked with Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Clarence Williams, Luis Russell, Lonnie Johnson, and Bob Dylan."
- Eva Taylor: "(...) was an American blues singer and stage actress."
Laws
- The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: "(...) was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers."
- Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857): "(...) was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law. It held that "a negro, whose ancestors were imported into [the U.S.], and sold as slaves", whether enslaved or free, could not be an American citizen and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court, and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States."
- The Civil Rights Act of 1866: "(...) was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law.
- The Civil Rights Act of 1871: "(...) also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1871, Force Act of 1871, Ku Klux Klan Act, Third Enforcement Act, or Third Ku Klux Klan Act, is an Act of the United States Congress which empowered the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus to combat the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and other white supremacy organizations."
- The Civil Rights Act of 1875: "(...) was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era to guarantee African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury service."
- United States v. Harris (1883): "(...) sometimes referred to as the Ku Klux Case, was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that it was unconstitutional for the federal government to penalize crimes such as assault and murder. It declared that the local governments have the power to penalize these crimes."
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896): "(...) was a landmark constitutional law case of the US Supreme Court. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal"."
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954): "(...) was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional."
- The Civil Rights Act of 1957: "(...) was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was also Congress's show of support for the Supreme Court's Brown decisions (...)"
- The Civil Rights Act of 1960: "(...) was a United States federal law that established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone's attempt to register to vote."
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964: "(...) is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States[5] that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin."
- The Voting Rights Act of 1965: "(...) is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting."
- Loving v. Virginia (1967): "(...) is a landmark civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court, which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
- The Civil Rights Act of 1968: "(...) is a landmark part of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, religion, or national origin and made it a federal crime to “by force or by threat of force, injure, intimidate, or interfere with anyone … by reason of their race, color, religion, or national origin.”"
- The Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987: "(...) was a US legislative act that specified that recipients of federal funds must comply with civil rights laws in all areas, not just in the particular program or activity that received federal funding."
- The Civil Rights Act of 1991: "(...) is a United States labor law, passed in response to United States Supreme Court decisions that limited the rights of employees who had sued their employers for discrimination."
- Shelby County v. Holder (2013): "(...) is a United States Supreme Court case invalidating parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, specifically the method for determining which U.S. jurisdictions were subject to extra scrutiny and requirement of federal approval prior to certain electoral law changes going into effect. This had the effect, in the views of many, of effectively hamstringing enforcement of much of the Voting Rights Act more broadly."
Places
- Christiana incident (or riot), 1851
- Crownsville Hospital Center: "(...) is a former psychiatric hospital located in Crownsville, Maryland."
- Cotton Club: "(...) was a New York City night club located first in the Harlem neighborhood on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1935 and then for a brief period from 1936 to 1940 in the midtown Theater District. The club operated most notably during America's Prohibition Era. The club was a whites-only establishment even though it featured many of the most popular black entertainers of the era (...)"
Genres and Companies
- Minstrel show: "(...) The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American form of entertainment developed in the 19th century. Each show consisted of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music. The shows were performed by white people in make-up or blackface for the purpose of playing the role of black people."
- Race record: "(...) were 78-rpm phonograph records marketed to African Americans between the 1920s and 1940s. They primarily contained race music, comprising various African-American musical genres, including blues, jazz, and gospel music, and also comedy."
- African-American music: "(...) is an umbrella term covering a diverse range of musics and musical genres largely developed by African Americans."
- Okeh Records: "(...) was a record label founded by the Otto Heinemann Phonograph Corporation, a phonograph supplier established in 1916, which branched out into phonograph records in 1918."
- The Rabbit's Foot Company: "(...) also known as the Rabbit('s) Foot Minstrels and colloquially as "The Foots", was a long-running minstrel and variety troupe that toured as a tent show in the American South between 1900 and the late 1950s."
- Category:African-American women rappers
Social Movements and Political Organizations
- Womanism: "(...) is a social theory based on the racial and gender-based oppression of black women, and other women of marginalized groups."
- Black Feminism: "(...) is a school of thought which argues that sexism, class oppression, gender identity and racism are inextricably bound together."
- Harlem Renaissance: "(...) was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement," named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke."
- Black Arts Movement: "(...) is the artistic outgrowth of the Black Power movement that was prominent in the 1960s and early '70s."
- Black Panther Party and Women in the Black Panther Party: "(...) was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982, with international chapters operating in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s, and in Algeria from 1969 until 1972. When people remember the Black Panther Party, many imagine a dominant, masculine and violent party, yet the party was two-thirds female in the 1970s."
- African-American woman suffrage movement: "(...) As the women's suffrage movement gained popularity, African-American women were increasingly marginalized. African-American women dealt not only with the sexism of being withheld the vote but also the racism of white suffragists."
- Young Negros' Cooperative League
- Congress of Racial Equality: "(...) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement."
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: "(...) often pronounced /ˈsnɪk/ snick) was one of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s."
- National Congress of Black Women: "(...) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to the educational, political, economic and cultural development of African American women and their families."
Activists
- Frances Mary Albrier: "(...) Frances Mary Albrier (September 21, 1898, Mount Vernon, New York-August 21, 1987) was a civil rights activist and community leader."
- Norma Elizabeth Boyd: "(...) was one of sixteen founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first sorority founded by African-American women students, at Howard University."
- Melnea Cass: "(...) was an American community and civil rights activist. She was deeply involved in many community projects and volunteer groups in the South End and Roxbury neighborhoods of Boston and helped found the Boston local of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters."
- May Edward Chinn: "(...) was an African-American woman physician. She was the first African-American woman to graduate from Bellevue Hospital Medical College and the first African-American woman to intern at Harlem Hospital."
- Anna J. Cooper: "(...) was an American author, educator, speaker and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history."
- Juanita Craft: "(...) was an American civil rights pioneer and member of the Dallas City Council in Texas."
- Angela Davis: "(...) is an American political activist, academic scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement."
- Alice Allison Dunnigan: "(...) was an African-American journalist, civil rights activist and author. She was the first African-American female correspondent to receive White House credentials, and the first black female member of the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries."
- Georgiana Simpson: "(...) was a philologist and the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in the United States. Simpson received her doctoral degree in German from the University of Chicago in 1921."
- Lena Frances Edwards: "(...) was a New Jersey physician who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom."
- Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee: "(...) was an obstetrician and civil rights activist."
- Ardie Clark Halyard: "(...) was a banker, activist and first woman president of the Milwaukee chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
- Anna Arnold Hedgeman: "(...) was an African-American civil rights leader, politician, educator, and writer."
- Claudia Jones: "(...) was a Trinidad-born journalist and activist. As a child she migrated with her family to the US, where she became a political activist and black nationalist through Communism, using the false name Jones as "self-protective disinformation"."
Arts Organizations and Awards
- Cave Canem Foundation: "(...) is an American 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1996 by poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programs and writing workshops across the United States. It is based in Brooklyn, New York."
- Hurston-Wright Legacy Award: "(...) is a literary award given by the Hurston/Wright Foundation. The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award is the first national award given to black American writers. The award namesakes are two of the most influential black authors, Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright."
- Furious Flower Poetry Center
- Anti-Slavery Society: "(...) was the everyday name of two different British organisations. The first was founded in 1823 and was committed to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. Its official name was the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions. This objective was substantially achieved in 1838 under the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833."
- Theatre Owners Booking Association: "(...) or T.O.B.A., was the vaudeville circuit for African American performers in the 1920s. The theaters mostly had white owners (the recently restored Morton Theater in Athens, Georgia, originally operated by "Pinky" Monroe Morton, being a notable exception) and booked jazz and blues musicians and singers, comedians, and other performers, including the classically trained, such as operatic soprano Sissieretta Jones, known as "The Black Patti", for black audiences."
- Negro Actors Guild of America: "(...) was formed in 1936 and began operation in 1937 to create better opportunities for black actors during a period in America where the country was at a crossroads regarding how its citizens of color would be depicted in film, television and the stage. It originated in New York City, post the Great Depression during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, and the NAG sought to eliminate stereotyping of African Americans in theatrical and cinematic performances."2
Black Press
- Essence Magazine: "(...) is a monthly magazine for African American women between the ages of 18 and 49. The magazine covers fashion, lifestyle and beauty, with an intimate girlfriend-to-girlfriend tone, and their slogan "Fierce, Fun, and Fabulous" suggests the magazine's goal of empowering African-American women."
- Jet Magazine: "(...) is a digital magazine. As an American weekly marketed toward African-American readers, it was founded in 1951 by John H. Johnson of the Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois. Initially billed as "The Weekly Negro News Magazine", Jet is notable for its role in chronicling the Civil Rights Movement from its earliest years, including coverage of the Emmett Till murder, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Martin Luther King Jr."
- Right On!: "(...) was an American teen magazine first published by the Laufer Company in 1972 with editor/creator Judy Wieder and art director William Cragun. It continued publishing to c. 2011 and focused on African-American celebrities."
- The Source: "(...) is a United States-based monthly full-color magazine covering hip-hop music, politics, and culture, founded in 1988. It is the world's longest running rap periodical, being founded as a newsletter in 1988."
- The Colored American (Washington, D.C.): "(...) was a weekly newspaper published in Washington, D.C., from 1893 to 1904 by Edward Elder Cooper. It frequently featured the works of journalists John Edward Bruce and Richard W. Thompson."
- Atlanta Daily World: "(...) is the oldest black newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 1928. Currently owned by Real Times Inc., it publishes daily online and weekly in print.
It was "one of the earliest and most influential black newspapers."
- Atlanta Inquirer
- Atlanta Voice
- Chattanooga News Chronicle
- Dayton Defender
- Houston Defender: "(...) is an African-American newspaper published weekly in Houston, Texas. The newspaper was established October 11, 1930."
- The Washington Afro-American: "(...) is the Washington, D.C., edition of The Afro-American Newspaper."
- The Woman's Era: "(...) was the first national newspaper published by and for African-American women. It was founded in 1894 by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, who served as its editor and publisher until 1897. The Woman's Era played an important role in the national African-American women's club movement."
- Negro Affairs
Scholarly Journals
- Callaloo (journal): "(...) is a quarterly literary magazine that was established in 1976 by Charles Rowell, who remains its editor-in-chief. It contains creative writing, visual art, and critical texts about literature and culture of the African diaspora, and is probably the longest continuously running African-American literary magazine."
- The Journal of African American History: "(...) formerly The Journal of Negro History (1916–2001), is a quarterly academic journal covering African American life and history. It was founded in 1916 by Carter G. Woodson. The journal is published by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and was established in 1915 by Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland."
Evaluating Article Quality
editArticle Assessment: Quality Scale
editClass | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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FA | The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured article criteria:
A featured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.
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Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | Cleopatra (as of June 2018) |
FL | The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured list criteria:
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Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events (as of May 2018) |
A | The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria
The article meets the A-Class criteria:
Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:Article development. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as a featured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g. WikiProject Military history). |
Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. WP:Peer review may help. | N/A |
GA | The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria
A good article is:
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication. | Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. | Church of Scientology editing on Wikipedia |
B | The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria
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Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. | Wikimedia Foundation |
C | The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria
The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.
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Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems. | Wikitravel |
Start | An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following:
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Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more. | Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use. | Censorship of Wikipedia |
Stub | A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant. | Lineage (anthropology) (as of December 2014) |
List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list or set index article, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. | There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. | Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. | List of Wikipedias |
Category | Any category falls under this class. | Categories are mainly used to group together articles within a particular subject area. | Large categories may need to be split into one or more subcategories. Be wary of articles that have been miscategorized. | Category:Wikimedia |
Disambig | Any disambiguation page falls under this class. | The page serves to distinguish multiple articles that share the same (or similar) title. | Additions should be made as new articles of that name are created. Pay close attention to the proper naming of such pages, as they often do not need "(disambiguation)" appended to the title. | Wikipedia (disambiguation) |
File | Any page in the file namespace falls under this class. | The page contains an image, a sound clip or other media-related content. | Make sure that the file is properly licensed and credited. | File:Wiki.png |
Portal | Any page in the portal namespace falls under this class. | Portals are intended to serve as "main pages" for specific topics. | Editor involvement is essential to ensure that portals are kept up to date. | N/A |
Project | All WikiProject-related pages fall under this class. | Project pages are intended to aid editors in article development. | Develop these pages into collaborative resources that are useful for improving articles within the project. | Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia |
Redirect | Any redirect falls under this class. | The page redirects to another article with a similar name, related topic or that has been merged with the original article at this location. | Editor involvement is essential to ensure that articles are not mis-classified as redirects, and that redirects are not mis-classified as articles. | List of media personalities who have vandalised Wikipedia |
Template | Any template falls under this class. The most common types of templates include infoboxes and navboxes. | Different types of templates serve different purposes. Infoboxes provide easy access to key pieces of information about the subject. Navboxes are for the purpose of grouping together related subjects into an easily accessible format, to assist the user in navigating between articles. | Infoboxes are typically placed at the upper right of an article, while navboxes normally go across the very bottom of a page. Beware of too many different templates, as well as templates that give either too little, too much, or too specialized information. | Template:Wikipedia |
NA | Any non-article page that fits no other classification. | The page contains no article content. | Look out for misclassified articles. Currently, many NA-class articles may need to be re-classified. | N/A |
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- ^ "Computational Linguistics Reveals How Wikipedia Articles Are Biased Against Women". MIT Technology Review.
- ^ "Feminist Wiki-Storming". FemTechNet.
- ^ Smith, Jada (February 19, 2015). "Howard University Fills in Wikipedia's Gaps in Black History". New York Times.
- ^ "Open Access: What is it and why should we have it?". OASIS: Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook. September 11, 2009. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
Open Access provides the means to maximise the visibility, and thus the uptake and use, of research outputs. Open Access is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs without the severe restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements. It is definitely not vanity publishing or self-publishing, nor about the literature that scholars might normally expect to be paid for, such as books for which they hope to earn royalty payments. It concerns the outputs that scholars normally give away free to be published – peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and datasets of various kinds.