Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Illinois College of Medicine/Wikipedia for the Medical Editor (Spring 2022)

This course will be offered to third and fourth year medical students to enhance their communication skills as it pertains to explaining complex medical conditions, treatments, and paradigms to non-medically trained individuals. Students will also learn how to condense information from secondary source guides into best practice guides using systematic reviews, literature reviews, and foundation papers to up date Wiki-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.

Monday 11/1 @undefined 3PM on Zoom


 * Overview of course
 * Understanding Wikipedia as a community
 * Expectations &amp; Etiquette

Wednesday 11/4 @undefined 3PM on Zoom


 * Library Service with UICOM Librarian

Friday 11/6 @undefined 1PM on Zoom


 * WIP Assignments given
 * Disuss questions with assignments
 * Confirm topic selection
 * Confirm workplan

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Attendance Expectations
 * Slides
 * Evaluating Wikipedia
 * Workplan Worksheet

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.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 2
Wikipedia In Progress (WIP) meetings:

Please consult the table below for your WIP meeting information. During each WIP session you will need to provide an update on the following:

1. What did I do this week?

2. What will I do by next week?

3. (Optional) What questions do I have for Maureen or the Group?

This is the first step in the Peer Review Process. All assignments will come through me in an attempt to maintain anonymity between author and reviewer. This models how the peer review process works at multiple publications and NIH study sections.

The first assignment due November 13 should have your first “draft” edits in the talk page for your article &amp; either your completed Workplan worksheet or a 1-2 page document discussing the topic/page you chose, why you chose it, noted gaps/changes you would like to make, &amp; progress made thus far.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Genes and Proteins

LGBT+ Studies

Medicine

Political Science

Psychology

Science Communication

Sociology

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 3
Review the Guiding framework at this link

You will be assigned a Peer's article to review by me. I will alert you of the link via email and provide you with their workplan worksheet or summary, as well as the link to their page. After reviewing all provided materials you must craft a &quot;Reviewer Recommendation&quot;.

While reviewing your assigned peer's works look for the following:


 * Accuracy in the page you are reviewing
 * Simplicity of language, limited use of medical jargon
 * Flow within sections, section headers, order of sections
 * Adherence to the Wikiproject medicine style guidelines
 * Be mindful to be respectful in your language to your peer
 * Identify specific areas of improved quality as well as specific areas for improvement
 * Share any sources which may be helpful
 * Also review the provided Workplan Worksheet or Summary
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Be mindful of the intended audience. Provide a recommendation at the end to say if all changes are made if you would recommend the page to: Colleagues, Patients, Laypersons.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is a link to the Wikipedia Peer Review Rubric<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> offered by Wiki Ed for evaluating student contributions to Wikipedia articles. While we will NOT formally use the point system, it does provide a nice complement to the criteria listed above.

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 4
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

You must also submit a 1-2 page &quot;Reviewer Response.&quot; In this please be sure to thank your peer reviewer for their thought on your work, discuss why you agree/disagree with their recommendations, and how you addressed them. You only need include feedback from your assigned peer reviewer in this response. However, if you have received feedback from other wikipedians in your talk page then you may wish to discuss that as well.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
 * Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

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.

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!

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!

These presentations will take place during our final class meeting on 11/24

Each student will present for up to 10 minutes on the following:


 * 1) Article they chose and why
 * 2) Noted gaps in content, flow, or errors that they wished to correct
 * 3) Resources: What they used, why they chose them
 * 4) What changes were made to the article, what they learned that they could not add to the article and why
 * 5) Experience editing wikipedia

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