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;Title: 
Bringing feminist pedagogy to Wikipedia training for US public library staff: Reflections from the OCLC Wikipedian-in-Residence

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Relationship Building & Support; Inclusion & Diversity

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Presentation

;Author:
Monika Sengul-Jones

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Jones.monika at gmail.com

;Wikimedia username: Shameran81 / Monikasj

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Formally OCLC Wikipedia-in-Residence; UC San Diego

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On March 8, 2018, in honor of International Women’s Day, Merrilee Proffitt and I gave [a presentation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia_movement:_Conversations_with_communities] during a global conversation on 'women in the movement' about women in the [OCLC Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together project https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/OCLC/A_Wikipedian-in-Residence_to_Engage_500_Librarians_and_their_Communities], which was nearing completion at the time. We were asked to present because the majority of the participants in the OCLC project self-identified as women. And with the project nearly complete, we were well positioned to share out insights about their experiences. But speaking about the project as a women-focused initiative was misnomer, in part because the focus was to train public library staff, not women. But it was also true that we could report on women's experiences, because of the make-up of the profession. In the United States, the majority of library staff are women.

In this presentation, I will speak about the frictions and opportunities in training people in gendered professions, such as library work. What should we keep in mind when we’re doing outreach to a profession that is, for instance, feminized? What does that even mean? And what kind of approach can be taken to ameliorate biases that have led to the gendering of professions? I will begin to address these questions by describing how when I joined OCLC as a Wikipedian-in-Residence, I looked to feminism and critical race theories and pedagogies for guidance in my work with the OCLC WebJunction team to design and deliver Wikipedia learning. I’ll give concrete examples of how this translated into choices during the project, from course recruitment materials, content design, survery questions, and online interactive defaults. In the presentation, I’ll be sure to critically reflect on the challenges that are raised when aiming to serve a professional class made up of a particular gender / race / class and lessons this experience offers those of us in the Wikimedia movement keen to incorporate feminist and critical pedagogy into our outreach trainings. 

The Wikipedia + Libraries project concluded with the release of the curated curriculum and course materials available for others to share and adapt under a CC BY SA 4.0 license, and the learnings gained and information about the project outcomes will be shared in a complementary talk;  this presentation seeks to showcase how I, as a scholar with experience with outreach, came into the role of Wikipedian-in-Residence and I'll show examples from the content that was developed during the project.


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20

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~25

;Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?:
The seed of this presentation topic was discussed at the Women in the Wikimedia Movement conversation; presentations have been made about the Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together project more generally at library conferences, there were also two general presentations covering the research and project design made at WikiCon and Wikimania in 2017.

;If you will be incorporating a slidedeck during your presentation, do you agree to upload it to Commons before your session, with a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, including suitable attribution in the slidedeck for any images used?:
Yes

;Will you attend WikiConference North America if your submission is not accepted?:
Unsure

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