Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/UCSF School of Medicine/WikiMed Dec 2019 UCSF SOM (Career Launch Block 9)
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- Course name
- WikiMed Dec 2019 UCSF SOM
- Institution
- UCSF School of Medicine
- Instructor
- Amin Azzam, MD, MA
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Medicine
- Course dates
- 2019-11-25 00:00:00 UTC – 2019-12-21 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 7
Admit it! You use Wikipedia extensively. Who doesn't? But do you use it for medical information? Your patients do! Wikipedia is now the most widely used medical reference in the world. This course will help you better understand the WP “ecosystem” including Wikiprojects, Translators Without Borders, and the offline Wikipedia health app.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 25 November 2019 | Tuesday, 26 November 2019
- In class - Wikipedia bolus
- Mon 11/25 & Tues 11/26
Welcome to your Wikipedia course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for this rotation, 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.
Monday 11/25 
10am - 4pm: Mission Hall, room 1407
- Overview of the course
- Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.
- Additional content will include:
- presentation by Amin: "Becoming a Wikipedian in medical school"
- lunch on your own and complete all Wiki Ed assigned trainings
- discuss workplan, Wikiproject Medicine style guidelines, begin selecting articles, begin designing your teams and workplans
Tues 11/26 10am - 4pm: Mission Hall, room 1407
- presentation by Amin: "An emerging global movement: Embracing Wikipedia-editing in health professional schools"
- update on selected articles, collective editing, Hemingway
- optional free therapy about the stress of residency applications (12-1pm)
- discuss expectations of peer-review & WP-WIP's
- go over proliferation of platforms document, tour Wiki literature folder, platforms PRN
- draw names for peer review assignments, residual Q&A
Resources:
Digital Handout: Attendance Expectations
Presentation: Amin's day 1 slides
Wiki Editing Resources: folder
Digital Handout: Editing Wikipedia
Digital Handout: Evaluating Wikipedia
Digital Handout: Whit's library content at UCSF: being an information Ninja
Digital Handout: Open resources for Wikipedia researching
Digital Handout: Workplan worksheet
====== Wiki literature: Folder
Presentation: Amin's day 2 slides ======
Digital Handout: Proliferation of platforms explanations
Anticipated Attendance: gDoc
- Assignment - Basic Wikipedia training modules
These are the Wiki Ed produced training modules that I believe are important and relevant to our work in this rotation. You are expected to complete all of them by the end of your lunch break on Day 1 of the course.
- Assignment - Editing Wikipedia as a health-professional student
These are additional training modules that are especially relevant to you as medical students. You are expected to complete these before you go to sleep at the end of Day 1 of the course.
- Assignment - How to assign yourself an article for this course
- Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area
- Assignment - Workplan
By 9:30am on Mon 12/2 (e.g. before our first WP-WIP), post your final Workplan to your selected Wikipedia's talk page, so that you can engage with the Wikipedian community members who are interested & actively following your article. If you are working on a team, I want you to be explicit about what section(s) you will individually be responsible for.
Consider explicitly declaring any/all of the following (but don't feel limited to these):
- Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?
- Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
- Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
- Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
- Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
- Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
- Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
- Which sections will you prioritize?
- What resources do you intend to look up, and when?
- How will you decide what things (signs, symptoms, side-effects, etc.) to explicitly include? To explicitly exclude?
- Will you also embed additional links to other Wiki pages?
- How will you ensure you avoid "doctor-speak" and not use jargon?
Handout: Workplan worksheet
- In class - Slack stuff
We're going to use slack as our asynchronous communication platform. Here are details:
- Create your slack username and account.
- Join the slack workspace: uctech.slack.com
- Tell Amin your slack username and he will add you to the private wikimed_dec_2019 channel
- You can create any needed additional channels for work teams. Be sure to add Amin to those channels so he can contribute PRN
- In class - WP-WIP #1
- Mon 12/2 @ 10 - 11am
====== On Mon 12/2 from 10 - 11am you will informally present your work-in-progress to Amin and classmates. We will help troubleshoot or discuss your evolving thoughts on your work.
Here's a link to the google doc for this WP-WIP.
Remote participation Options: ======
Amin Azzam is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Join from a PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android device:
https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/923374565
Meeting ID: 923 374 565
Telephone:
US: +1 669 900 6833
or +1 646 558 8656
Conference room system (H.323):
Dial: 162.255.37.11 (US West)
Dial: 162.255.36.11 (US East)
SIP: 923374565
zoomcrc.com
iPhone single-tap (US Toll):
+16699006833,,923374565# or +16465588656,,923374565#
UCSF Zoom instance is approved for use with restricted data.
For more information on Zoom:
http://ucsf.zoom.us
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 2 December 2019 | Friday, 6 December 2019
- Milestones
A month-long rotation may feel like a long time, but it's remarkably short for this kind of work! I expect each of you will have begun making edits live on Wikipedia (e.g. not merely in your sandboxes) before the end of this week.
- In class - WP-WIP #2
- Fri 12/6 @ 10 - 11am
On Fri 12/6 from 10-11am you will informally present your work-in-progress to Amin and classmates. We will help troubleshoot or discuss your evolving thoughts on your work.
Here's a link to the google doc for this WP-WIP.
Remote participation Options:
Amin Azzam is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Join from a PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android device:
https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/869542580
Meeting ID: 869 542 580
Telephone:
US: +1 669 900 6833
or +1 646 558 8656
Conference room system (H.323):
Dial: 162.255.37.11 (US West)
Dial: 162.255.36.11 (US East)
SIP: 869542580zoomcrc.com
iPhone single-tap (US Toll):
+16699006833,,869542580# or +16465588656,,869542580#
UCSF Zoom instance is approved for use with restricted data.
For more information on Zoom:
http://ucsf.zoom.us
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 11 December 2019
- In class - WP-WIP #3
- Wed 12/11 @ 10 - 11am
On Wed 12/11 from 10 - 11 you will informally present your work-in-progress to Amin and classmates. We will help troubleshoot or discuss your evolving thoughts on your work.
Here's a link to the google doc for this WP-WIP.
Remote participation Options:
Amin Azzam is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Join from a PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android device:
https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/939743306
Meeting ID: 939 743 306
Telephone:
US: +1 669 900 6833
or +1 646 558 8656
Conference room system (H.323):
Dial: 162.255.37.11 (US West)
Dial: 162.255.36.11 (US East)
SIP: 939743306zoomcrc.com
iPhone single-tap (US Toll):
+16699006833,,939743306# or +16465588656,,939743306#
UCSF Zoom instance is approved for use with restricted data.
For more information on Zoom:
http://ucsf.zoom.us
- Assignment - Peer review an article
Please perform peer reviews beginning on Wed 12/11 after our WIP#3
- What should a peer-review look like? During our discussion in class on Tues 11/26, we will define specific attributes we will itemize here.
- Peer review of Dec 2019:
- Assume good intent (from the peer-reviewer)
- Give positive feedback as well as constructive feedback!
- Peer-reviewer should read the entire WP page before writing the review
- Respond in a timely manner
- When possible give suggested improvements/edits and your rationale for why you are making this recommendation (e.g. not just "delete" but "delete this sentence because...")
- Use neutral tone
- Read the author's work plan before conducting your peer-review
Logistical Details:
- Peer reviews are DUE by end of week 3 = Before you go to sleep on Sun 12/15.
- Post the peer-review on the TALK page of the article you are reviewing.
- Here's a link to a wikipedia peer-review rubric offered by Wiki Ed for evaluating student contributions to Wikipedia articles. While we will NOT formally use the point system, it does provide a nice complement to our "home-grown" peer-review process.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia
- Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
- In class - Discussion
- Assignment - Continue improving your article
Exercise
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 4
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 16 December 2019 | Friday, 20 December 2019
- Milestones
BEFORE we start our WP-WIP #4 on Mon 12/16 10am, ALL peer-reviews should have been completed and posted to the talk page of the page being reviewed.
- In class - WP-WIP #4
- Mon 12/16 @ 10 - 11am
On Mon 12/16 from 10 - 11am you will informally present your work-in-progress to Amin and classmates. We will help troubleshoot or discuss your evolving thoughts on your work.
Here's a link to the google doc for this WP-WIP.
Remote participation Options:
Amin Azzam is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Join from a PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android device:
https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/318503383
Meeting ID: 318 503 383
Telephone:
US: +1 669 900 6833
or +1 646 558 8656
Conference room system (H.323):
Dial: 162.255.37.11 (US West)
Dial: 162.255.36.11 (US East)
SIP: 318503383zoomcrc.com
iPhone single-tap (US Toll):
+16699006833,,318503383# or +16465588656,,318503383#
UCSF Zoom instance is approved for use with restricted data.
For more information on Zoom:
http://ucsf.zoom.us
- Assignment - Respond to your peer review
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.
How to respond to the peer-reviewer's comments? We'll insert this here during class discussion on Tues 11/26
- Assuming good good intent from the peer-reviewer (e.g. this is not personal)
- Thank the reviewer for their excellent review
- Take all suggestions seriously but OK to use your own judgement
- Describe why you disagree with suggested recommendations
Logistical Details:
- Post your responses to peer-review on the TALK page near the peer review.
- This will allow other Wikipedians to engage with the recommendations long after you finish this course
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia
- Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
- Assignment - Polish your work
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!
- In class - WP-Wrap-up Session
- Fri 12/20 @ 10 - 11am
In person Helen Diller room 160 so Amin can feed you
On Fri 12/20 from 10-11pm we will convene for a meeting to share accomplishments and discuss lessons learned. Final presentations will be structured as follows: round robin "reports" (maximum of 10 minutes each) from each of you as follows:
- What did I accomplish this month (broad overview)?
- What did I learn?
- What will I take forward with me into the future?
- Now in hindsight, is there anything I would have done differently?
Here's a link to the google doc for this Wrap-up Session.