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Admit it! You use Wikipedia extensively. Who doesn't? But do you use it for medical information? Your patients do! So if Wikipedia is the most widely used medical reference in the world, and the third most visited medical reference in the US, why not be a part of increasing the quality of reliable information there by becoming a WikiProject: Medicine editor? This course will teach you how.
These activities will occur at Mission Hall, room 1405
Handout: Editing Wikipedia
This is where we think specifically about how editing Wikipedia as a medical student might differ from editing as a "lay person."
These activities will occur at Mission Hall, room 1405
On Thurs 3/3 from 10am-noon you will informally present your work-in-progress to Amin and/or Whit. We expect you to have worked out a team work-plan itemized by each of your individual responsibilities.
By the end of the day on Fri 3/4, post your final Workplan. So that you can engage with the Wikipedian community members who are interested & actively following your article, post your Workplan on the talk page of your selected Wikipedia article. Since you will all be working on the same article, I want you to be explicit about what section(s) you will individually be responsible for. Consider explicitly declaring any/all of the following:
Resources: Evaluating Wikipedia, Using Talk Pages
This is to remind you that adding images to WP articles can be just as important as adding text. Here's the general information about doing that scope of work as part of your efforts:
These activities will occur in Mission Hall 1109
On Thurs 3/10 from 10am-noon you will informally present your work-in-progress to Amin and/or Whit. We will help troubleshoot or discuss your evolving thoughts on your work. Bring your lunch and make it an "edit-a-thon!"
Based on our discussions on the first two days of class, it is my expectation that by Week 2 you will be editing your selected article(s) "live" on Wiki and not merely in your sandboxes!
These activities will occur in Mission Hall 1109
On Thurs 3/17 from 10am-noon you will informally present your work-in-progress to Amin and/or Whit. We will help troubleshoot or discuss your evolving thoughts on your work. Bring your lunch and make it an "edit-a-thon!"
Additionally, we will have a talk by a guest discussant: Fred Trotter-- an "open hackivist" in the healthcare space, and recipient of a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Please perform peer reviews beginning on March 11
How to conduct peer review? Themes/questions that emerged:
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/UCSF
Use the final week of the course to respond to your peer-reviewer's suggestions. Additionally:
These activities will occur in Mission Hall 1109
On Thurs 3/24 from 10-noon we will convene for a 2 hour meeting to share accomplishments and discuss lessons learned. Final presentations will be structured as follows: round robin "reports" (maximum of 10 minutes each) from each of you as follows:
We will conclude our meeting with a focus group about the elective overall. This will include:
This Course
|
Wikipedia Resources
|
Connect
Questions? Ask us:
contact |
![]() | This course page is an automatically-updated version of the main course page at dashboard.wikiedu.org. Please do not edit this page directly; any changes will be overwritten the next time the main course page gets updated. |
Admit it! You use Wikipedia extensively. Who doesn't? But do you use it for medical information? Your patients do! So if Wikipedia is the most widely used medical reference in the world, and the third most visited medical reference in the US, why not be a part of increasing the quality of reliable information there by becoming a WikiProject: Medicine editor? This course will teach you how.
These activities will occur at Mission Hall, room 1405
Handout: Editing Wikipedia
This is where we think specifically about how editing Wikipedia as a medical student might differ from editing as a "lay person."
These activities will occur at Mission Hall, room 1405
On Thurs 3/3 from 10am-noon you will informally present your work-in-progress to Amin and/or Whit. We expect you to have worked out a team work-plan itemized by each of your individual responsibilities.
By the end of the day on Fri 3/4, post your final Workplan. So that you can engage with the Wikipedian community members who are interested & actively following your article, post your Workplan on the talk page of your selected Wikipedia article. Since you will all be working on the same article, I want you to be explicit about what section(s) you will individually be responsible for. Consider explicitly declaring any/all of the following:
Resources: Evaluating Wikipedia, Using Talk Pages
This is to remind you that adding images to WP articles can be just as important as adding text. Here's the general information about doing that scope of work as part of your efforts:
These activities will occur in Mission Hall 1109
On Thurs 3/10 from 10am-noon you will informally present your work-in-progress to Amin and/or Whit. We will help troubleshoot or discuss your evolving thoughts on your work. Bring your lunch and make it an "edit-a-thon!"
Based on our discussions on the first two days of class, it is my expectation that by Week 2 you will be editing your selected article(s) "live" on Wiki and not merely in your sandboxes!
These activities will occur in Mission Hall 1109
On Thurs 3/17 from 10am-noon you will informally present your work-in-progress to Amin and/or Whit. We will help troubleshoot or discuss your evolving thoughts on your work. Bring your lunch and make it an "edit-a-thon!"
Additionally, we will have a talk by a guest discussant: Fred Trotter-- an "open hackivist" in the healthcare space, and recipient of a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Please perform peer reviews beginning on March 11
How to conduct peer review? Themes/questions that emerged:
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/UCSF
Use the final week of the course to respond to your peer-reviewer's suggestions. Additionally:
These activities will occur in Mission Hall 1109
On Thurs 3/24 from 10-noon we will convene for a 2 hour meeting to share accomplishments and discuss lessons learned. Final presentations will be structured as follows: round robin "reports" (maximum of 10 minutes each) from each of you as follows:
We will conclude our meeting with a focus group about the elective overall. This will include: