Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Marshall University/Capstone in Health Sciences (Spring)

For students working on capstone hours and want to expand their knowledge base. Editing/writing for Wiki allows you to understand new topics and get experience editing and writing in academic language.

Week 1

 * Overview of the course
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
 * Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.

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Handout: Editing Wikipedia


 * Create an account and then complete the online training for students. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
 * Create a User page.
 * Begin the training modules assigned for your course. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.

Week 2

 * Review pages 4-7 of the Evaluating Wikipedia brochure. This will give you a good, brief overview of what to look for in other articles, and what other people will look for in your own.
 * Evaluate an existing Wikipedia article related to the class, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's talk page.
 * A few questions to consider (don't feel limited to these):
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?
 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?

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Resources: Evaluating Wikipedia,

I would like you to look at 3 articles for this assignment. Choose one that is in your career path, one on a disease covered in class, and one topic you find interesting in health science.

Week 3

 * Based on your critique last week, pick one article to add content to.
 * As you are improving an existing article, create a detailed outline reflecting your proposed changes in your sandbox space.
 * Post your proposed changes for community feedback, along with a brief description of your plans, on the article’s talk page. Make sure to check back on the talk page often and engage with any responses.
 * Continue research in preparation for expanding your article.


 * Move your sandbox articles into main space.
 * Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with a citation to an appropriate source, to the Wikipedia article you selected.
 * As you are making many small edits, be sure to save after each edit before you make the next one. Do NOT paste over the entire existing article, or large sections of the existing article.
 * You may choose to add more information based on what you found to be missing, the citations you use, and more.
 * Be sure to expand your article into a comprehensive treatment of the topic.