Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Yale College/Issues In Medicine And Public Health (Fall)

Interactions between research and media concerning topics that get popular attention such as proper nutrition, risk of toxins, pandemic disease threats, predictive genetic tests, cancer and other health screening tests, the opioid epidemic, the legacy of tobacco research, immunization, physician assisted suicide, gene editing and precision medicine. Each student will edit one Wikipedia article to understand the concept building a neutral consensus based on the best sourcing

Week 4
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. Read the material linked below

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.)  For your Wikipedia user name,  chose one that is anonyous and gender neutral. There is not a lot of trolling on Wikipedia, but you have to be aware of the danger anytime you use the internet. After  you create material on Wikipedia you can claim credit by telling those you want what your user name is

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Look at two Wikipedia articles. This one on  celiac disease (coeliac is the British spelling) describes the condition that is one of the main reasons people avoid gluten in their diet. You would NOT work on an article like this. The is article is rated FA class -- the highest on Wikipedia's quality scale. You can see that  described on the article's talk page. It was also a featured article indicated by the gold star in the upper right corner of the main page. You would not work on because it has been vetted and there is likely not much to add unless something updates the information. Still take a look to see why it is considered so good then look at this article. This describes a potential treatment to avoid celiac disease. This article is called stub class on the quality scale. It is a place holder awating much more infomration. The article you ultimately chose work on for this assignment will likey be a stub or a &quot;start class&quot; article giving more opportunites to improve it

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 6
In addition, copy and paste any paragraph from a current Wikipedia article in the mainspace into yout sandbox. Make at least two edits in the text and add a citation. These two not have to be correct. I want you to demonstrate to me and yourself that you are comfortable with the editing process. Leave the before and after paragraphs  in your sandbox. Do NOT make any changes in the mainspace. Explain you have done it with the signature ~

Find the article you want to work on for the remainder of the class. It should be relevant to any of the topics mentioned in the syllabus. Ideally it should be a stub or start class article. You can use a higher rated article if you think you can make a substantial contribution. Before you make a choice, we will go over in class  methods for finding articles. For you, an imprtant criterion is finding a subject that interests you enough so you want to spend some time with it

What's a content gap?

Environmental Sciences

Genes and Proteins

Medicine

Science Communcation

Exercise
Add a citation

Copyedit an article

Week 8
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

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 9
Guiding framework

Thinking about Wikipedia

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

Week 10
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.

Rember you can consult a Wikipedia expert anytime by pressing the &quot;get help&quot; button

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
 * Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
 * It is important that everyone reach out to their Wikipedia expert now with the &quot;get help&quot; button because the project for which you will be graded is due in two weeks and you want to give the expert a chance to give you feed back you can incoporateI

Week 11
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot; Please note: the comments from the Wikipedia community and your class peers will not affect your grade. Your grade will be determined by the product in your sandbox by midnight November 16, but you will be docked credit if you do not move it into the mainspace by this date. The rubric for grading is in the week 12 assignment

Rember you can consult a Wikipedia expert anytime by pressing the &quot;get help&quot; button

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Exercise
Add links to your article


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
 * Finish your atricle
 * What is in your sandbox on midnight November 16 will determine your grade for the Wikipedia part of the course.  It is important that comments from others on Wikipedia and even your classmates may help you improve your article but will not affect your grade
 * Grading rubric

Week 15
This is your term paper.''' Due before midnight December 14. 3000-4000 words on any topic related to the class, possibly even the subject you chose for your Wikipedia assignment. But with the paper you will make an argument aimed either at policy makers or the public. This is quite different from the neutral tone required for the Wikipedia assignment and one of the major goals is for you to appreciate the difference '''