User:Prof.Vandegrift
This user is an instructor for the course Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Drake_University/Global_Youth_Studies_(Fall_2015). |
User:Prof.Vandegrift/2015 Sandbox
Hello - I am not currently working on this project, but here is a history of the Global Youth Studies Project
The Project
I am working with my students to incorporate academic research on global youth studies more deeply into Wikipedia and to gain valuable feedback from the Wikipedia community. Our course page this semester,Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Drake University/Global Youth Studies (Fall 2015). You can see candidate articles for editing on a page created in 2013 by my online mentor, Gobonobo: GYS article page.
Through our project, we seek to counter systemic bias in Wikipedia. These biases reflect, in my view, the power inequalities that exist offline that result in the uneven distribution of the things needed to be a Wikipedia editor: internet connections, comfort with technology, knowledge about things deemed "legitimate", confidence/sense of entitlement, leisure time, and English fluency. Our class is expanding academic treatment of Global South youth (and particular Global North examples currently not represented) through original articles and article edits. This project and the related course fulfill both the research design/methods intensive requirement for the Drake Sociology Major, the Rhetoric, Media, & Social Change Major, the Anthropology/Sociology Major and Drake University's information literacy general education (Areas of Inquiry) requirement.
Contact me
You may email me here.
How to be a good member of the Wikipedia community
Tips for newbies on everything from editing to etiquette.
Creating a good article or article edit
How to
Finding a useable image: try this tool. I haven't tested this much yet, but check it out if you are needing a useable image.
For final editing: Here are the specific guidelines for creating a
- Also, fairly picky standards exist for how to format the first sentence.
How to
Writing towards the intended audience is important:Wikipedia:Manual of Style
Technical assistance
If you need technical guidance on Wikipedia programming, references, and so forth, try the Wikipedia:Teahouse.
If you are writing a new article Wikipedia:Article_wizard.
For WP programming:
Information on how to cite sources in Wikipedia articles
Our project uses peer-reviewed articles as references. We need to know how to
Personal Scholarly Interests
You can learn more about me at this link.
This user participates in WikiProject South America. |
This user is a participant in WikiProject Latin America. |