In class - Opening Session

Either Mon 7/8 9 - 10:30am Eastern or Mon 7/8 1 - 2:30pm Eastern 

Welcome to your Wikipedia course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for this course, with links to training modules and our collective workspaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

• Overview of the course & your intros to each other
• Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.
• Presentation by Amin: "Becoming a Wikipedian in medical school"

• Complete all Wiki-Ed training modules
• Orient yourself to Wikiproject Medicine's project page
• Begin selecting what page you will work on during this course

Assignment - Basic Wikipedia training modules

These are the Wiki Ed produced training modules that I believe are important and relevant to our work in this course.  You are expected to complete all of them by the end of Day 1 of the course.

Assignment - Editing Wikipedia as a health-professional student

These are additional training modules that are especially relevant to you as medical students.  You are expected to complete these by the end of Day 2 of the course.

In class - Workplan & Peer Review (WPPR) session

• Discuss workplan strategies
• Define expectations of peer-review
• Define expectations of WIP's, gDocs, and slack
• Discuss hemingway editor (time permitting, or defer until WIP#1)
• Walk through gDrive folder architecture (including Wiki literature subfolder)
• Presentation by Johnathon: "Library resources/searching strategies/techniques"
• Presentation by Amin: "An emerging global movement: Embracing Wikipedia-editing in health professional schools"

• Finalize and declare the page you will work on
• Complete your workplan and post it onto the talk page of your selected page
• Make sure you're included and able to use Slack for our asynchronous communications

Resources:

• Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
• Evaluating Wikipedia
• shortcut to course folder on gDrive
• shortcut to Workplan advice (from both WPPR sessions)
• shortcut to Workplan template (be sure to make a copy if you intend to use it)
• shortcut to Amin's Important vs. Urgent framework
• shortcut to Amin's presentation
• shortcut to Jonathon's handout
• Jonathon's video resources:

https://youtu(.)be/-lLwFyB6fBU - Introduction to resources for Wikipedia editing

https://youtu(.)be/oXa0wVPTIXc - Full access literature available in PLOS and BMC

https://youtu(.)be/tmjeqRyZnec - Finding images for Wikipedia

https://youtu(.)be/5FqwA3-FLh8 - PubMed overview

• shortcut to video recording of this session

Assignment - How to assign yourself an article for this course

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Medicine

In class - Slack stuff

We're going to use slack as our asynchronous communication platform.  Here are details:

1. Create your slack username and account.
2. Hillary from Osmosis should have added you to the slack workspace: osmosis.slack.com
3. Hillary should have also added you to the channel "#wiki_summercourse2019"
4. You can create any needed additional channels for work teams.  Be sure to add Amin to those channels so he can contribute PRN (as needed)

Assignment - Workplan

• Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?
• Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
• Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
• Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
• Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
• Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
• Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
• Which sections will you prioritize?
• What resources do you intend to look up, and when?
• How will you decide what things (signs, symptoms, side-effects, etc.) to explicitly include? To explicitly exclude?
• Will you also embed additional links to other Wiki pages?
• How will you ensure you avoid "doctor-speak" and not use jargon? 

• shortcut to Workplan template (be sure to make a copy if you intend to use it)

In class - Work-in-Progress (WIP#1)

Either Thurs 7/11 10 - 11am Eastern or Fri 7/12  10 - 11am

You will informally present your work-in-progress to Amin and your classmates.  We will help troubleshoot or discuss your evolving thoughts on your work. 

IF we didn't get to the hemingway editor during WPPR we'll cover that here.

Resources:

• shortcut to the google doc for this WIP
• shortcut to video recording of this session

Milestones

A month-long sumer course may feel like a long time, but it's remarkably short for this kind of work!  I expect each of you will have begun making edits live on Wikipedia (e.g. not merely in your sandboxes) before the end of this week.

In class - Work-in-Progress (WIP#2)

Either Thurs 7/18 9 - 10am Eastern or Fri 7/19 4 - 5pm 

You will informally present your work-in-progress to Amin and your classmates.  We will help troubleshoot or discuss your evolving thoughts on your work. 

Resources:

• shortcut to the google doc for this WIP
• shortcut to video recording of this session

In class - Work-in-Progress (WIP#3)

Either Tues 7/23 10 - 11am Eastern or Wed 7/24 10 - 11am (zoom links below)

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Resources:

• shortcut to the google doc for this WIP
• shortcut to video recordings of this session

Assignment - Peer review an article

Guiding framework

• What should a peer-review look like? During our WPPR discussion in class on Tues 7/9, we will define specific attributes we will itemize here.
• Peer review of summer 2019:
  • Use the SMART framework
  • Depersonalize the review by focusing on the task, not the person
  • Check for completeness
  • Offer suggestions for additional content to add
  • Assume best intent in both Wikipedians and fellow student contributors
  • Watch closely for intellectual synthesis beyond what is known to be true
  • Read your peer's workplan first
  • Offer feedback specifically based on your peer's intended goal BUT/AND
  • It's OK to offer feedback on other aspects of the page since you're reading it anyways
  • It's OK to give the "sandwich method" of feedback as well
  • Positive feedback is ALWAYS appreciated!
  • Post the peer review on the actual talk page
  • Include the good and the “areas for improvement”
  • Read their work FIRST before jumping to writing your review
  • (time permitting) at least skim example heavily referenced citations to ensure they are appropriately being cited
  • Look for examples of erroneous citation (e.g. original authored research)
  • Consider categories of peer-review (e.g. sentence structure/grammar, citations, comprehensive, understandability).  Remember the categories of the Wikipedia grading scale
  • Be respectful with the peer-review
  • Read the peer’s workplan before conducting the peer-review 
  • Consider using actual conversations to discuss/deliver the peer-review
  • Offer suggestions for improvement
• Below there's a link to a grading rubric that Wiki Ed offers for evaluating student contributions to Wikipedia articles.  While we will NOT formally use the point system, it does provide a nice complement to our "home-grown" peer-review process. 

Peer Review Logistics:

• Peer reviews are DUE by beginning of week 4 = Before you go to sleep on Sun 7/28.
• Post the peer-review on the TALK page of the article you are reviewing.

Resources:

• Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
• Shortcut to Wiki Ed Wikipedia peer-review rubric
• Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

In class - Discussion

Thinking about Wikipedia

Assignment - Continue improving your article

Exercise

Add links to your article

Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

Milestones

BEFORE we start our WIP#4 on Mon 7/29 10am, ALL peer-reviews should have been completed and posted to the talk page of the page being reviewed.

In class - Work-in-Progress (WIP#4)

Either Mon 7/29 10 - 11am Eastern or Mon 7/29 1 - 2pm

====== You will informally present your work-in-progress to Amin and your classmates.  We will help troubleshoot or discuss your evolving thoughts on your work. 

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Resources:

• shortcut to the google doc for this WIP
• shortcut to video recording of this session

Assignment - Respond to your peer review

You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

• Don't take it personally because growth can be challenging
• Peer review is intended to be a gift, not a hostile intent
• Thank them for their review
• Work on their recommended suggestions!
• Be respectful in receiving the feedback
• Appreciate the opportunity to hear a different point of view
• When there is conflicting reviewer comments, it's OK to disrgard one of them
• When you disagree with your reviewer, respectfully explain why
• Try to address all of the reviewer's points, but it's OK if you can't get to them all
• Be cognizant of any work you're avoiding responding to [think of your unconscious]
• Post your response on the talk page where the peer-review is
• Don’t take it personally when reading the review
• Consider responding to the peer reviewer's recommendations
• Don’t be afraid for clarifications, suggestions for improvement

Resources:

• Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
• Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Assignment - Polish your work

Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

In class - Closing Session

• What did I accomplish this month (broad overview)?
• What did I learn?
• What will I take forward with me into the future?
• Now in hindsight, is there anything I would have done differently?

Resources:

• shortcut to the google doc for this Closing Session
• shortcut to video recording of this session

Research Study Stuff

Since this is the inaugural time offering this course with a distributed-network of medical students, I'm conducting some medical education research on the course.  You are enthusiastically encouraged to participate, but are also welcome to decline to participate.

• link to consent form
• link to survey (estimated duration to complete is <30 min)
• link to questions that will be asked during the focus group (dates and times below)