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Appendix: Wikipedia Editing Assignment
In this assignment, we asked learners in an upper-level cultural anthropology course to add to an existing article on Wikipedia. In developing the assignment, we drew from the templates laid out by Wiki Education and some of the resources they created to provide resources for learners in the class (Wiki Education, 2017).
Since the course was Gender, Sex, and Sexuality: A Global Perspective, we focused on pages that addressed gender or sexuality in some way. However, since there is a dearth of information about the Global South in English-language Wikipedia (Salvaggio, 2015), most cultural anthropology courses have the potential to contribute to an instance of information inequality on Wikipedia.
Learning Outcomes
We used the frames in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education to organize learning outcomes for this project. Table 1 lists our learning outcomes with the information literacy frame that they are meant to develop. The table also shows how elements of our assignment address our learning outcomes. Depending on your course, you may wish to focus more on some frames and less on others. This is part of what makes this assignment flexible.
Assignment
In this assignment, we ask learners to research and write a contribution to an existing Wikipedia page about gender or sexuality. Learners also submit an annotated bibliography and write a short reflection essay at the end of the semester. This project is spread out over the
