Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Pennsylvania/Medical missionaries to Community Partners (Fall 2020)

Global health is an often repeated goal for motivated individuals, modern leaders of countries, and non-governmental organizations. Despite its modernity, this goal has been elusive for more than 100 years and despite scientific advancement. Critics highlight language of a new imperialism through aid programs, exoticizing through medical tourism, and the reification of traditional social hierarchies. We will examine the evolution over time and place of people and programs to improve health of “underserved” populations globally. Traditionally categorized as public health and efforts to achieve a just society, we will develop an evaluation tool for past programs and conceptualize future partnerships on both a local and international stage. To put this work into practice, students will be expected to develop and publish online a historical article regarding a medical missionary, global health scientist, or concept in missionary medicine. At the end of the course, students should conceptualize health and medical scientists through history, anthropology, global politics, and biomedicine

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 have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise- evaluating articles
Evaluate an article

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 3
What's a content gap?

Exercise- Exploring topics
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Exercise- Add a citation
Add a citation

Copyedit an article

Week 5
Biographies

History

Medicine

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Week 6
Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Identify the subject of your wikipedia article, find a missionary or global health scientist in the library that does not currently have a wikipedia page. Upload the subject on canvas and add it to the course page on wikipedia.

Week 7
Thinking about Wikipedia

Week 8
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 9
Write an introduction(&quot;Lead Section&quot;), outline, and an annotated bibliography for your culminating project.

Guiding framework

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 10
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Exercise- Adding links
Add links to your article

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 11
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.

Resources:


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

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!

Week 12
Guiding questions

Guiding questions

Week 13
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.

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!

Nominating your article for Did You Know