Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Western Michigan University School of Medicine/Medical Translation (April 2020)

In this course, you will join the community of Wikipedia editors. In collaboration with WikiEdu and WikiProject Medicine, you will select a medical topic to add to, edit, or create. The average page view for these pages are 50k page views per month. As such, you’re engaging in global health and making information more available to the public! It is important to remember this project is not about the length of your work – it is about the quality of the information. Wiki is a crowdsourced encyclopedia so only secondary literature may be used and we’re looking for clear, plain language statements that come from recently published (less than 5-10 years old) high-quality evidence.

Week 1
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.

Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the &quot;Get Help&quot; button on this page.

To get started, please review the following handouts:


 * Editing Wikipedia pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia


 * Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (To avoid hitting Wikipedia's account creation limits, this is best done outside of class. Only 6 new accounts may be created per day from the same IP address.)
 * It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.

Select your topics

 * Review the list of Wikipedias and select the language most relevant to you.
 * Then, choose two articles related to health or medicine from Spanish to English or English to Spanish. You can use the &quot;Finding your article&quot; training to help you nativate the English Wikipedia policies for selecting a topic, some of which may be useful on your second language Wikipedia.
 * You can use the exercise below to help you select your topics.
 * For example, if you are working on the Spanish Wikipedia, here is a link to articles related to medicine that you could for this project.

Exercise
Choose a topic

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Once you have at least two ideas selected of topics you may want to translate, spend some time evaluting what exists for those topics on both the English Wikipedia and your second language Wikipedia. You should use the exercise below to complete this evaluation, leaving notes about your observations and learnings in your Sandbox.

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Exercise
Evaluate your articles

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Using your topic evaluations, select two project to move forward with and write up a one page proposal about your plan. Please discuss what article you plan to translate, what the related or missing article is on the English or Spanish Wikipedia, and how you plan to integrate the content from each. ======

Finalize your topic
Once your proposal has been given the go ahead, please complete this exercise.

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Week 2
Review the trainings provided here, and then begin your translation! To start, you'll want to copy the entire article or parts of the articles you plan to translate into your sandbox. Then, begin working on your translation, thinking about formatting as you go.

Based on your selected topic, please download and review the relevant handout(s) provided by Wiki Education. For example, all students should review the Medicine and Science Communication handouts, but other may choose to review the Biographies handout, or the Political Science handout as needed.

Medicine

Science Communcation

[https://wikiedu.org/history

History]

LGBT+ Studies

Political Science

Complete first draft
By the end of this week you should have a complete first draft of your planned implementations.

Week 3

 * Be ready to discuss your progress translating your articles.
 * Carefully note the original citations for facts in your source article. If an original source doesn't seem reliable, feel free to omit it from your translation.

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Thinking about Wikipedia

What's a content gap?


 * Continue to translate your work.
 * Introduce citations from English-language texts or Spanish-language texts that support the facts stated in your translated article. Adjust your translation if necessary.
 * For each sentence you translate, make a note of the sources used in the original article. Are they good sources? Do they really say what the Wikipedia article describes?

Request review
At the end of this week, please request a review of your work from a peer or mentor. You can use this guiding framework to help yourself or them with a review.

Guiding framework

Week 4

 * Individual presentations about your translation process, how you selected your articles, and your observations about how this differs from a traditional translation assignment.

Review the &quot;Moving out of your Sandbox&quot; training, and then... begin to move your work live! In your first edit to the article namespace, include a link of the source article (i.e., the article you translated) in the &quot;edit summary&quot; before hitting &quot;save.&quot;


 * Copy the code to the bottom of the Wikipedia article, replacing es with the language code of the language you a translating from and replacing Page Title with the title of the source page.

Once you've made your planned contributions live, 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.

Exercise
Add links to your article

Before completing your assignment, review Editing Wikipedia page 15.

Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Final improvements
You can review your final improvements by using the assessment tools on the Articles tab of this course page.

Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading.