Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Johns Hopkins University/Johns Hopkins Medicine (Spring)

Learn how Hopkins influenced medical education, public health, and hospital care by working to write and improve Wikipedia articles about relevant topics.

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

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 make a Wikipedia account.

Identify three articles pertinent to the history of Hopkins medicine and be ready to discuss them in class next week. Be creative!

Week 2
What categories can we divide the articles into? Are there any we might have missed?

Week 3
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 5
Biographies

History

Medicine

Science Communication

Find an appropriate subject guide or page and post it to your Sandbox along with a 1-paragraph summary of its most important points.

Week 6
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Week 8
Go to my user page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:M.hin.ck and add it to your 'Watchlist' by clicking the star next to the 'View history' tab at the top of the page - this is where I'll post a summary of the week's assignments and any updates. If anything is unclear, please post your question to my Talk page. (You can always still email, but consider posting first so everyone can benefit from the clarification).

Guiding framework

Watch the film The Deadly Deception (available through eReserves) and post a 250-word reflection to the following page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:M.hin.ck/Deadly_Deception) on how this film affects your understanding of this week's readings.

Week 9
You have peer reviews from your classmates (these can be found by going to Students -&gt; Article assignments -&gt; [your name]  -&gt; clicking the 'Review' links in the block with your article), as well as my comments on the Talk page attached to your Sandbox draft. Consider these suggestions and edit your draft to make the appropriate changes.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
 * The rubric that will be used for your final article is on Blackboard; it's the first item in the Course Content folder.

Watch the film &quot;Dr. Money and the Boy with No Penis&quot; on eReserves and post a 250-word discussion of the film's sources here.

Week 10
Gradually transfer your articles to the mainspace according to the instructions given in the assignment above. I'll check all of the Wikipedia pages and your Sandboxes on Saturday and provide a last set of revisions and suggestions for you to incorporate in your final articles. These will be due at the end of reading period (May 8).

Even though you'll be working with the real Wikipedia pages starting this week, make sure you continue to  make any edits in your Sandbox first. In other words, your Sandbox should continue to be the full article as you envision it: copy the changes one by one into the main article, but keep the Sandbox draft as the master version. This will ensure that even if if your edits are removed from the Wikipedia mainspace by other users, your version of the article will be preserved. Your Sandbox draft as of May 8 is what I'll be grading as your final project - this will ensure that you're evaluated on everything you did, not just the parts of it that were eventually accepted by the wider Wikipedia community.

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 11
Your final presentation should be a 6-minute recorded video where you reflect on the research process and what you've learned about research, copyright, and composition along the way.

You and your partner should speak for approximately equal time, and have some sort of a visual aid as part of your presentation. This can be a Powerpoint or other presentation, or you can simply walk us through your article or search strategy on the screen.

You can do this however you like, but a very simple way of creating a video with multiple people and a Powerpoint is to have a Zoom meeting and record it. I've provided a sample in the Blackboard 'Course Content' folder, and there's a link on my Wikipedia page.

As you reflect on the research process and the strategies you developed to deal with various issues you encountered, consider the following:

1. Why did you choose the article you did?

2. What were the issues with the article?

3. How did you initially plan to fix these issues?

4. What challenges did you encounter, and how did your plans change?

5. What strategies did you use for finding new, reliable information? Which would you recommend?

6. Did you have any interactions with othe Wikipedians?

7. How did the constraints and rules of Wikipedia change how you pursued your research? What Wikipedia resources (style guides, ability to see statistics, etc.) did you use? What would you have done differently if you were writing a research paper of your own?

You needn't address all of these topics - they're meant to give you something to think about in your discussion.

As always, let me know your questions! Looking forward to seeing all your work in its final form. And as a reminder, your final articles aren't due until the end of reading period (May 8) - I'll provide a second review with some more individual guidance soon.

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 12
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!

Remember to submit your final presentation - see the instructions from last week (above, in the Week 12 block) for more guidance.