Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Georgetown University/Medicine, Race, and Gender (Summer 2022)

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

Week 2
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 3
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 past articles but it is not limiting; you can do something entirely different from what's there

Week 4
Training modules are as-needed and can help you feel more confident though you don't have to master this stuff for the commenting

Books

Cultural Anthropology

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

Films

Genes and Proteins

History

LGBT+ Studies

Linguistics

Medicine

Psychology

Science Communication

Sociology

Women's Studies

Week 5
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.

NOTE -- from the above (recycled) training module on how to edit, 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 ---

WIKI MODULE EXCERPT focused on leaving comments on talk pages:

https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/how-to-edit/video-talk-pages-v2

--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



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