Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Pennsylvania/Medical missionaries to Community Partners (Fall 2021)

Global health is an often repeated goal for 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. As we have experienced, in epidemics and pandemics, this becomes a greater focus as a focus on data, science, and expertise tells us socially and politically how to make other populations healthier. Critics highlight language of a new imperialism through aid programs, exoticizing through medical tourism, and the reification of traditional social hierarchies of injustice and inequity. 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 assessment method for programs and conceptualize future partnerships on both a local and international stage. Students should expect to question broadly held beliefs about perceived good and service. Students will explore these issues as they research an individual, organization, or topic in global health and publish a new wikipedia article on it.

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

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. Start a 'page' with the name in your sandbox.

Week 7
Thinking about Wikipedia

Week 8
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts in their sandbox. Wrtie yoru lead section, add an outline with Early Life, Mission, and Legacy. Include your first references.

Week 9
Guiding framework

You will be assigned peer reviews in canvas. Go to the classmates sandbox and review their lead section. Provide feedback via canvas

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.

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 12
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!

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