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Timeline
Syllabus for the course:

Week 1 (1/13): Wikipedia Introduction and Editing Basics

 * In class
 * Overview of the course
 * Introduction: Picking an article, Using Wikipedia
 * Making Accounts/Enrolling in a Course Page
 * How Do I Edit?
 * Tips on finding the best articles to work on for class assignments
 * Talk about Wikipedia culture and etiquette, and visit the concept of sandboxes and how to use them.
 * Handout: Editing Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wiki Education Foundation)
 * Handouts: Citing sources on Wikipedia and Avoiding plagiarism on Wikipedia
 * Milestone:
 * All students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.
 * All students have chosen an article to add to the class’s course page.

Week 3 (1/27) CANCELED FOR SNOWSTORM: Wikipedia as a source of medical information

 * In class
 * Speaker: Jeremy Faust, PGY3 at Mount Sinai and medical writer

Week 5 (2/10): Exploring the topic with Doc James

 * In class
 * Select one classmates’ articles that you will peer review and copy-edit.
 * Who is using wikipedia and why?
 * Introduction to the Translation Task Force

Week 7 (2/24): Medical Writing

 * In class
 * Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good and bad articles
 * Discuss how to cut down, reorganize, and add content
 * Review a peer's edits and post to the talk page
 * Share experiences and discuss problems.

Week 9 (3/10): Class presentations

 * In class
 * Students give in-class presentations about their experiences editing Wikipedia.
 * Link to presentation
 * Slide 1: Article, pageviews, rating/importance, anything else
 * Slide 2: Issues you had with editing (eg finding resources, why your page was easy/difficult to edit)
 * Eat pizza and cake, and celebrate!

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