Grants talk:Project/NCTE/CCCC Wikipedia Initiative 2020-21/Midpoint

Comments from I JethroBT (WMF)

@Drkill and @Breadyornot - Thanks for your midpoint report on the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative. I am accepting the midpoint report below with the following comments and questions:

• Congratulations on creating WikiProject Writing! It's exciting to see this collaborative space now available for contributors to engage with these topic areas together, and to be able to do so with the support of experts in these fields. Your team has put a lot of care into highlighting recent work, creating clear points of entry into the work, as well as providing guidance for where effort can be directed based on your assessments.
• You've developed a great learning pattern focused on engaging with content experts and academic staff. Having direct perspectives from academics and experts themselves how best to support participation in the movement within the field is valuable for the volunteer movement to understand, and I hope to be able to share these reflections with future volunteers planning work with these kinds of contributors.
• We have begun a library of advice and help resources for expert academic editors It's great to hear you have developed some supportive resources for contributors coming from academic or expert backgrounds. Can you point to where these resources are available? Are they part of the WikiProject Writing pages you created, or a related space?
• We have initiated collaborations with CCCC member groups: the Asian/Asian American Caucus, Global & Non-Western Rhetorics (GNWR) Standing Group, Feminist Caucus, Standing Group for Disability Studies, and Transnational Composition Standing Group I appreciate that you've taken some time to begin consulting with these organizations to begin address some of the challenges you addressed in your original proposal (for example, citation imbalances due to failure to cite publications from marginalized authors). Can you describe some of your interactions with these organizations so far are, and any specific plans for how you will be working together with these organizations to support the project? For example, perhaps you have been able to begin reviewing and understanding specific writing studies content gaps with some organizations that are important to address.
• The general level of participation across CCCC activities according to Dashboard stats seems sufficiently on target relative to your goals, and in some cases, you have already exceed some of your targets. Congratulatuions on these outcomes!
• I did note that the general level of participation in the meetup events appears low, and that, there were many events without any participants (at least according to the Dashboard stats). Is participation is being captured elsewhere for these events, or is there other context I am missing around these activities? More generally, I am wondering about your own reflections on the specific impact of your meetups and what support they may be providing. If participation has been low, do you plan on changing anything about these activities (e.g. in terms of outreach, changing the schedule for them, etc.)
• Related to the above point, have participants been using the one-on-one or group office hours you have offered? What kind of impact do you think that has had for participants?
• We noticed that existing notability guidelines do not directly address issues of particular relevance to academic topics and figures I appreciate you calling this challenge to attention in your learning. Issues and concerns around notability criteria on English Wikipedia have been noted by a number of contributors working in specific topic areas (e.g. See this recent publication from Art+Feminism). Currently, English Wikipedia has this notability criteria specific to academics, as well as the general notability criteria. What sort of changes or transformations to these criteria would be supportive for your team's work in this domain?
• I'm curious in learning more about what work or thinking you and your team have been doing on the Scholar Fellowships and Scholar award. Do you have any updates on this work or collaboration with the Wiki Education Foundation?
• A minor point is that the links on the report page were not working properly-- I've adjusted some of them, but please review to make sure that the wikilinks point to the intended pages. Some of the pages you have developed are highlight critical parts of your project, and I want to make sure others reviewing your report are able to easily see the work you have accomplished.

When you're able, please respond to my questions above, and let me know if there is anything in my feedback that I can clarify. With thanks I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 12:57, 7 October 2021 (UTC)