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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.
Monday 11/21: Mission Hall, room 1406
Tues 11/22: Mission Hall, room 2103
Handout:
Editing Wikipedia
Link to Evans Whitaker's library handout:
https://ucsf.box.com/s/gp30spz58fhdp8xkbvv4h26kpnuv8xt5
This is where we think specifically about how editing Wikipedia as a medical student might differ from editing as a "lay person."
By 10am on Mon 11/28 (e.g. by the end of your Thanksgiving holiday), 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. If you are working on a teamlet, 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 1407 with remote participation capacity
On Mon 11/28 from 10am - 11:30am 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.
Remote participation Options:
To join the Meeting:
https://bluejeans.com/765599230
To join via Browser:
https://bluejeans.com/765599230/browser
To join with Lync:
https://bluejeans.com/765599230/lync
To join via Room System:
Video Conferencing System: bjn.vc -or-199.48.152.152
Meeting ID : 765599230
To join via phone :
1) Dial:
+1.408.740.7256
+1.888.240.2560
+1.408.317.9253
(see all numbers -
http://bluejeans.com/numbers)
2) Enter Conference ID : 765599230
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 1407 with remote participation capacity
On Fri 12/2 from 2 - 3:30pm 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.
Remote participation Options:
To join the Meeting:
https://bluejeans.com/148992645
To join via Browser:
https://bluejeans.com/148992645/browser
To join with Lync:
https://bluejeans.com/148992645/lync
To join via Room System:
Video Conferencing System: bjn.vc -or-199.48.152.152
Meeting ID : 148992645
To join via phone :
1) Dial:
+1.408.740.7256
+1.888.240.2560
+1.408.317.9253
(see all numbers -
http://bluejeans.com/numbers)
2) Enter Conference ID : 148992645
These activities will occur in Mission Hall 1401 with remote participation capacity
On Wed 12/7 from 3 - 4:30pm 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.
Also we will have a guest-faculty presentation as follows:
Zachary J. McDowell, PhD
Research Fellow
Wiki Education Foundation
Remote participation Options:
To join the Meeting:
https://bluejeans.com/450662273
To join via Browser:
https://bluejeans.com/450662273/browser
To join with Lync:
https://bluejeans.com/450662273/lync
To join via Room System:
Video Conferencing System: bjn.vc -or-199.48.152.152
Meeting ID : 450662273
To join via phone :
1) Dial:
+1.408.740.7256
+1.888.240.2560
+1.408.317.9253
(see all numbers -
http://bluejeans.com/numbers)
2) Enter Conference ID : 450662273
Please perform peer reviews beginning on Thurs 12/8
How to conduct peer review? Themes/questions that emerged:
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/UCSF
How to respond to the peer-reviewer's comments?
These activities will occur in Mission Hall 1400 with remote participation capacity
On Tues 12/13 from 12 - 1:30pm 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.
Also we'll have a guest-faculty presentation as follows:
Amanda Menking
Ph.D. Candidate | iSchool, University of Washington
https://ischool.uw.edu/people/phd/amenking
Women & Wikipedia: Toward An Understanding of Non-Majority Participation In Social Computing Systems
Wikipedia is one of the most powerful, accessible, and ubiquitous information sources in our world today. It is also one of the greatest examples of large-scale collaborations in history. Although it purports to be “the encyclopedia anyone can edit,” effective contribution often proves difficult, especially for non-majority participants. In the past five years, the English language Wikipedia’s “gender gap” has drawn both public and scholarly attention, serving as a compelling case of how women editors as non-majority participants experience Wikipedia. Using an inductive approach, I will ask how women as non-majority participants experience and manage their participation, how the governance of Wikipedia accounts for non-majority participants, and how non-majority participation impacts Wikipedia’s content. To investigate these questions, I will employ a variety of mixed methods, including participant observation, semi-structured interviews, content analysis, descriptive statistics, and object biography. Because the phenomenon of non-majority participation is understudied and undertheorized, I will use grounded theory to iteratively analyze, interpret, and interrogate data as I collect it. Findings from my work will make both practical and theoretical contributions. A successful project will result in implications for the design of governance of peer production systems such as Wikipedia, and in generative theory about non-majority participation in social computing systems. I undertake this research project with the goal of challenging the reification of systemic biases and of acknowledging and improving the experiences of non-majority participants who contribute their knowledge and labor.
Remote participation Options:
To join the Meeting:
https://bluejeans.com/627788744
To join via Browser:
https://bluejeans.com/627788744/browser
To join with Lync:
https://bluejeans.com/627788744/lync
To join via Room System:
Video Conferencing System: bjn.vc -or-199.48.152.152
Meeting ID : 627788744
To join via phone :
1) Dial:
+1.408.740.7256
+1.888.240.2560
+1.408.317.9253
(see all numbers -
http://bluejeans.com/numbers)
2) Enter Conference ID : 627788744
Use the final week of the course to respond to your peer-reviewer's suggestions. Additionally:
These activities will occur in Mission Hall 1401
On Fri 12/16 from 3 - 4:30pm we will convene for a 1.5 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:
Remote participation Options:
To join the Meeting:
https://bluejeans.com/656725886
To join via Browser:
https://bluejeans.com/656725886/browser
To join with Lync:
https://bluejeans.com/656725886/lync
To join via Room System:
Video Conferencing System: bjn.vc -or-199.48.152.152
Meeting ID : 656725886
To join via phone :
1) Dial:
+1.408.740.7256
+1.888.240.2560
+1.408.317.9253
(see all numbers -
http://bluejeans.com/numbers)
2) Enter Conference ID : 656725886
This Course
|
Wikipedia Resources
|
Connect
Questions? Ask us:
contactwikiedu.org |
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.
Monday 11/21: Mission Hall, room 1406
Tues 11/22: Mission Hall, room 2103
Handout:
Editing Wikipedia
Link to Evans Whitaker's library handout:
https://ucsf.box.com/s/gp30spz58fhdp8xkbvv4h26kpnuv8xt5
This is where we think specifically about how editing Wikipedia as a medical student might differ from editing as a "lay person."
By 10am on Mon 11/28 (e.g. by the end of your Thanksgiving holiday), 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. If you are working on a teamlet, 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 1407 with remote participation capacity
On Mon 11/28 from 10am - 11:30am 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.
Remote participation Options:
To join the Meeting:
https://bluejeans.com/765599230
To join via Browser:
https://bluejeans.com/765599230/browser
To join with Lync:
https://bluejeans.com/765599230/lync
To join via Room System:
Video Conferencing System: bjn.vc -or-199.48.152.152
Meeting ID : 765599230
To join via phone :
1) Dial:
+1.408.740.7256
+1.888.240.2560
+1.408.317.9253
(see all numbers -
http://bluejeans.com/numbers)
2) Enter Conference ID : 765599230
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 1407 with remote participation capacity
On Fri 12/2 from 2 - 3:30pm 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.
Remote participation Options:
To join the Meeting:
https://bluejeans.com/148992645
To join via Browser:
https://bluejeans.com/148992645/browser
To join with Lync:
https://bluejeans.com/148992645/lync
To join via Room System:
Video Conferencing System: bjn.vc -or-199.48.152.152
Meeting ID : 148992645
To join via phone :
1) Dial:
+1.408.740.7256
+1.888.240.2560
+1.408.317.9253
(see all numbers -
http://bluejeans.com/numbers)
2) Enter Conference ID : 148992645
These activities will occur in Mission Hall 1401 with remote participation capacity
On Wed 12/7 from 3 - 4:30pm 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.
Also we will have a guest-faculty presentation as follows:
Zachary J. McDowell, PhD
Research Fellow
Wiki Education Foundation
Remote participation Options:
To join the Meeting:
https://bluejeans.com/450662273
To join via Browser:
https://bluejeans.com/450662273/browser
To join with Lync:
https://bluejeans.com/450662273/lync
To join via Room System:
Video Conferencing System: bjn.vc -or-199.48.152.152
Meeting ID : 450662273
To join via phone :
1) Dial:
+1.408.740.7256
+1.888.240.2560
+1.408.317.9253
(see all numbers -
http://bluejeans.com/numbers)
2) Enter Conference ID : 450662273
Please perform peer reviews beginning on Thurs 12/8
How to conduct peer review? Themes/questions that emerged:
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/UCSF
How to respond to the peer-reviewer's comments?
These activities will occur in Mission Hall 1400 with remote participation capacity
On Tues 12/13 from 12 - 1:30pm 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.
Also we'll have a guest-faculty presentation as follows:
Amanda Menking
Ph.D. Candidate | iSchool, University of Washington
https://ischool.uw.edu/people/phd/amenking
Women & Wikipedia: Toward An Understanding of Non-Majority Participation In Social Computing Systems
Wikipedia is one of the most powerful, accessible, and ubiquitous information sources in our world today. It is also one of the greatest examples of large-scale collaborations in history. Although it purports to be “the encyclopedia anyone can edit,” effective contribution often proves difficult, especially for non-majority participants. In the past five years, the English language Wikipedia’s “gender gap” has drawn both public and scholarly attention, serving as a compelling case of how women editors as non-majority participants experience Wikipedia. Using an inductive approach, I will ask how women as non-majority participants experience and manage their participation, how the governance of Wikipedia accounts for non-majority participants, and how non-majority participation impacts Wikipedia’s content. To investigate these questions, I will employ a variety of mixed methods, including participant observation, semi-structured interviews, content analysis, descriptive statistics, and object biography. Because the phenomenon of non-majority participation is understudied and undertheorized, I will use grounded theory to iteratively analyze, interpret, and interrogate data as I collect it. Findings from my work will make both practical and theoretical contributions. A successful project will result in implications for the design of governance of peer production systems such as Wikipedia, and in generative theory about non-majority participation in social computing systems. I undertake this research project with the goal of challenging the reification of systemic biases and of acknowledging and improving the experiences of non-majority participants who contribute their knowledge and labor.
Remote participation Options:
To join the Meeting:
https://bluejeans.com/627788744
To join via Browser:
https://bluejeans.com/627788744/browser
To join with Lync:
https://bluejeans.com/627788744/lync
To join via Room System:
Video Conferencing System: bjn.vc -or-199.48.152.152
Meeting ID : 627788744
To join via phone :
1) Dial:
+1.408.740.7256
+1.888.240.2560
+1.408.317.9253
(see all numbers -
http://bluejeans.com/numbers)
2) Enter Conference ID : 627788744
Use the final week of the course to respond to your peer-reviewer's suggestions. Additionally:
These activities will occur in Mission Hall 1401
On Fri 12/16 from 3 - 4:30pm we will convene for a 1.5 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:
Remote participation Options:
To join the Meeting:
https://bluejeans.com/656725886
To join via Browser:
https://bluejeans.com/656725886/browser
To join with Lync:
https://bluejeans.com/656725886/lync
To join via Room System:
Video Conferencing System: bjn.vc -or-199.48.152.152
Meeting ID : 656725886
To join via phone :
1) Dial:
+1.408.740.7256
+1.888.240.2560
+1.408.317.9253
(see all numbers -
http://bluejeans.com/numbers)
2) Enter Conference ID : 656725886