Wikipedia talk:UCSF School of Medicine

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Assigning Credit: To get 1 academic credit for an elective at UCSF, it usually means that a student will have attended 10 hours of lecture (which in this case will not happen) and 30 hours of outside work/reading. In your experience, for a novice editor, what would be the minimum and maximum expectations for how much work could be done in that amount of time? Given that some topics have a wealth of literature around them to pour over, should it be based on references cited?Michaelturken (talk) 22:20, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
10 hours of lecture would be a good idea. We have a number of online videos and I would be able to provide a few hours of lectures in person. There are a lot of policies and procedure. One could spend an hour on the WP:MEDMOS and an hour on WP:MEDRS. Dispute resolution and community norms such as WP:3RR could also take an hour. As does an overview of Wikipedia and its significance in medicine. Another hour could be spent going over how to edit and the tool available to help with formatting.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 22:36, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response. I think minimizing lecture time would probably be best, given how busy most students' schedules are. One of the great things about this elective will be that students will have some flexibility around when they do the work. The big question for us is, how much work is enough to get credit? Taking some of the advice I read on here about how to run such an elective, I'm going to start editing articles to keep track of how much time it takes me, a new editor. Perhaps writing two sections of a "start' article with enough references could be enough for one credit? Michaelturken (talk) 19:48, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How often are articles re-checked or reviewed for continuing accuracy?Michaelturken (talk) 22:20, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
It depends on the topic. Major overhauls only occur rarely once an article reaches high quality. Typically this is because medicine itself changes slowly and one just updates topics as new high quality evidence appears. We have tools that tell us the number of people watching a page. For example pneumonia is watched by 190 people. [1] I think this data however is only available for admins. Recurring peer reviews occur every few years or when people have concerns. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 22:31, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Page watch data is available for anyone through toolserver, but only for admins if the page has under 30 watches (to prevent unlikely-to-be-detected vandalism). Also, if I can make it out to San Francisco I'd love to help with an editor training seminar, ideally on a Wikipedia general editing topic rather than a specifically medical issue. Ocaasi^{t | c} 16:53, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ongoing?

I'm curious. Is this ongoing at UCSF? The classroom links stop in 2017. Thanks. Biosthmors (talk) 21:02, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]