Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Georgetown University/Medicine, Race, and Gender (Summer 2021)

This course historically contextualizes and explores issues and advocacy around health inequities. As this is a truncated summer semester, we will ONLY be assessing wikipedia articles and leaving comments and suggestions on the TALK PAGES of the selected articles.

Week 1
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

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

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.)

Week 2
Books

Cultural Anthropology

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

Films

Genes and Proteins

History

LGBT+ Studies

Linguistics

Medicine

Psychology

Science Communication

Sociology

Women's Studies

Here's a direct link to our list of available articles -- and below is a list (not linked below, but on the linked page of available articles) that students in past iterations of this course have contributed to [you may use these to select an article for evaluation exercise]

Ableism

Bodymind

Chronic Condition

Climate change in the United States

Discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS

Environmental racism

Eugenics in the United States

Gender bias in medical diangnosis

Gender discrimination in the medical profession

Gender disparities in health

Genetics and abortion

Genetic discrimination

Incarceration in the United States

Maternal health

Mental disorders and gender

Race and health in the United States

Sickle cell disease

Transgenerational trauma

Undertreatment of pain

Women in medicine

Women's reproductive health in the United States

Week 3
THIS WEEK you'll meet in your groups and decide on your article selection for your Talk Page post --- please use one of your Sandboxes to share with me (1) your assessment of the page, and (2) what you think should be added, and (3) why. (4) Supporting this with any sources is always great!!

You’ll also want to make sure you’re set up to WATCH the page you choose, and have set up notifications that you will either get by email or will know to check on Wiki.

Here's a direct link to our list of available articles -- and below is a list (not linked below, but on the linked page of available articles) that students in past iterations of this course have contributed to [you may use these to select an article for your actual commenting project]

Ableism

Bodymind

Chronic Condition

Climate change in the United States

Discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS

Environmental racism

Eugenics in the United States

Gender bias in medical diangnosis

<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15.008px; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; text-align: inherit;">Gender discrimination in the medical profession

Gender disparities in health

Genetics and abortion

Genetic discrimination

<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.008px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: inherit;">Incarceration in the United States

<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.008px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: inherit;">Maternal health

Mental disorders and gender

Race and health in the United States

<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 15.008px; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; text-align: inherit;">Sickle cell disease

<span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.008px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: inherit;">Transgenerational trauma

Undertreatment of pain

Women in medicine

Women's reproductive health in the United States

Week 4
You and your partner/s will leave your comments on the talk page by Tuesday of next week!

STEPS

1. Check out your chosen article's talk page and see what the existing conversations are, if any. You'll want to be a good community member and acknowledge if there has been some talk already about what you're suggesting on the talk page -- it's definitely OK to repeat stuff that's already on there, because that will let folks know there's a consensus out here.

2. After you've taken note of any relevant conversation topics on there, revisit your sandbox containing your exercise from class on Tuesday. Your task now is to distill your suggested changes into a comment. It can be conversational, or it can be bullet points. You'll want to give it a heading that makes sense.

3. Take the plunge and make your comment. BE SURE to have reviewed the training modules on this as it can be overwhelming to be face to face with a bunch of code if it's your first time ever. Also, BE SURE to sign off once you've posted (both of you, ideally, should be on the singature, so you can do it logged in at different times, so you're not over-writing each other.

NOTE -- from the above (recycled) training module, you'll want to start from the part that just deals with talk pages, so that you can learn just what you need to, for this part ---

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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">--go through the slides through to the end of this one, and be sure to launch the talk page tutorial when it prompts you to

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Week 5
[may skip this since we have other presentations to get to as well this week][not sure why it says 7/17]

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