Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Georgetown University/Culture, Medicine, and Gender (Spring 2019)

Our course examines the history of oppressive and harmful medical practices in relation to women and people of color. Examples include harmful stereotypes and preconceptions (hysteria, madwomen, schizophrenic activists, pain tolerance) and experimentation as well as non-consensual sterilization practices. Students will be working in groups of three. Entries drafted/edited will be more historical/cultural/conceptual. We will endeavor to stay away from Medical entries as we are a WGST course, not medical, and editing those articles entails more stringent rules. Though, students are not discouraged from doing so if this seems like the best article choice for the team.

Week 4
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

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

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Week 5
Even if you will NOT be editing or drafting an article on a health topic, do this module. It's just useful and also interesting.

Biographies

Cultural Anthropology

Films

History

LGBT+ Studies

Medicine

Psychology

Sociology

Women's Studies

All of you will contribute content and explore a little bit of each aspect of the process, but in each group one person can be responsible for checking references, one for editing and proofing, and one for structure and organization. It may be helpful to divide aspects of the topic between group members as well.

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Exercise
Add a citation

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 7
This week is for doing your preliminary research and checking in with me and the librarian regarding any issues.

What's a content gap?

Week 8
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 10
This week we will be working in class together making sure everyone is up to speed and beginning to address the quesetions that they have set out to

Week 13
It's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 14
Go to Training Library and complete &quot;peer review&quot;

See the Editing Wikipedia Handbook pages 12 and 14

Thinking about Wikipedia

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.

Week 15
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!

Nominating your article for Did You Know

Guiding questions

Week 16
It's the final week to develop your article.


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
 * Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.

Write up a reflection of your contribution to your group's collective effort. This can be 500 - 800 words. This will help you articulate what you did since as we all know by now, the substance of your work can often appear invisible when you look at the final contribution. Research can be humbling like that, but this helps you remember that you really did a lot of work.