Wikipedia:CARL Medical Editing Initiative/Fall 2020/Course Overview

Getting Started Course Overview Practice Editing How to Edit
Resources and Videos Reliable Sources Community Consensus
(How to Use the Talk Pages) Track our Progress Academic Articles:
Medicine and Wikipedia

QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY MEDS 112: CRITICAL APPRAISAL AND LIFELONG LEARNING (CARL)
COURSE OVERVIEW- DATES AND LINKS TO ASSIGNMENTS

Fall 2020 Course Overview and Important Dates

Overarching goals of Wikipedia Longitudinal Project:

• Use the EBM skills taught in the course (identify a gap or error, search for sources to provide the missing information, assess the validity of the sources, apply the evidence to the article and communicate in a clear lay language format) as an applied exercise to improve Wikipedia content
• Expose students to the world’s most used medical resource, enhancing understanding of its benefits and flaws, and helping make it better for others

Dates, Lectures, and Links to Assignments

DIL (students only) 50 minutes – Tuesday October 20^th 4:30-5:20. 

• Goal: Students will sign up for Wikipedia and the Wikipedia tracking dashboard, work together to review their page, and work on the page critique (mandatory, complete/incomplete).
• Task 1: Each team member needs to complete steps 1-3 in Getting Started before 11:30pm, Oct 20, 2020. (Note: these three steps take 5 minutes to complete and help us set up the Wikipedia accounts for this course and track your progress)
• Task 2. Start Assignment # 1, Wikipedia Article Structured Critique (mandatory assignment (complete/incomplete): Due Tuesday October 27^th 11:30pm

• Note: If your group has been assigned two Wikipedia articles, please split up your group. Each group member only needs to review one article and this will be the same article that you will improve later on in this course.

SGL (tutors and students) 50 minutes Monday November 16^th 1:30-2:20

• Students meet the tutors and there is a short presentation on secondary sources for Wikipedia (why/how) and assignment 2 details (literature search).
• Divide and conquer areas of focus for the article together with the tutors – every student leaves with a single focused area for their work on the page.

• Literature Search: Assignment 2

DIL (students only) 50 minutes  Monday November 16^th 2:30-3:20

• Students work on Assignment 2 – literature search (individual project one page each).
• Assignment 2 is due at 11:30pm Tuesday November 17^th and we will ask the librarians to prioritize the marking to have it done by Monday November 23^rd at noon.

• How to submit your assignment: Please hand this in as a group (upload one document to Elantra) and also email a copy of the document to your tutor. This assignment is being marked by the librarians.

SGL (tutors and students) 100 minutes Monday November 23^rd 1:30-3:20 **

• 1:30-2:20 (first 50 minutes): Faculty tutors and students work together to plan the changes to the page based on the papers found in the search (prepare for assignment 3), go over the sandbox posting plan and make sure faculty can access everybody’s sandbox via the dashboard (or arranges email correspondence)

---(10 minute break)---

• 2:30-3:20 (second 50 minutes): Student Wikipedia training with Dr. Dawson Link to Slides

Tasks:

a. Learn how to edit your Sandbox, add citations using Wikipedia's citation tool

b. Learn about article "talk pages". One member of your group needs to post on your article talk page to let the community know that you are improving the page before the end of the November 23rd.

DIL (students only) 50 minutes Monday November 30^th 1:30-2:20

• Students work on Assignment 3 – individual planned changes to the page (prior to editing the actual Wikipedia article). Students should be posting their rough work and practicing adding citations in their Sandboxes to allow for more iterative feedback from tutors as they proceed.

• How to hand in Assignment # 3: Please email your tutor a copy of the Assignment # 3 in a word document (with your name at the top) and copy and paste a copy to your Sandbox in your Wikipedia account (remove your name from the Wikipedia version).
• Assignment 3
• Assignment # 3 Due Date: 11:30pm on December 4^th (emailed to tutors and anonymous final version in your sandbox on Wikipedia)

SGL (Tutors and students) 50 minutes Monday December 7^th 1:30-2:20 Students and tutors will work together to make their changes online – start/finish the editing work. There will be support from Dr. Dawson to guide those changes and she will be available afterwards for questions and additional support as needed.