Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/UCSF School of Medicine/UCSF SOM Inquiry In Action-- Wikipedia Editing 2022 (Fall)
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- Course name
- UCSF SOM Inquiry In Action-- Wikipedia Editing 2022
- Institution
- UCSF School of Medicine
- Instructor
- Amin Azzam, MD, MA
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Medicine
- Course dates
- 2022-08-08 00:00:00 UTC – 2022-09-20 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 156
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 "Inquiry in Action" task will help you better understand the WP “ecosystem” including Wikiprojects, the offline Wikipedia health app, and Wikipedia's article importance and grading scales. You will improve your inquiry skills and join a community of health professional students who are improving the quality of health information on Wikipedia.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 8 August 2022
- Assignment research study (if you are willing to participate)
Dear MS2's:
We are excited to partner with you in an upcoming Inquiry assignment: editing Wikipedia's health content! We have had UCSF MS4's do this work for several years, but you are only the second cohort of MS2's to engage in this work as part of your Bridges Inquiry curriculum. Because you are an early cohort, we are studying the impact of this assignment. We have applied for and received expedited approval from the UCSF IRB for this study. Participating in this research is entirely optional-- it will not impact your grade on the assignment. If you decide to participate, you'll complete a pre-assignment survey and a post-assignment survey. Each survey should take you less than 15 minutes to complete. Optionally, we will also conduct a few focus groups for any students willing to participate in that portion of our research study.
If you'd like to participate in our study, please click on this link for the pre-assignment survey. If you have any questions, email the study principal investigator (PI) Amin Azzam at Amin.Azzam
ucsf.edu. We'll ask you later about the post-survey and focus groups.
- In class - Opening Session
Welcome to your Wikipedia course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for this "Inquiry in Action" assignment, with links to training modules and other resources.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.
On Mon 8/8 we will:
- Hear a presentation by Amin: "Wikipedia editing in health-professional schools: a growing movement"
- Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.
- Explore Wikiproject Medicine and the importance x quality table
- Conduct an example edit, using the hemingway editor
- Present an overview of the assignment with Q&A
Tasks to complete between 8/8 - 8/28:
- Join this course dashboard
- Explore Wikiproject medicine
- Review the list of eligible Wikipedia pages for this assignment
- Complete all Wiki Ed training modules (below)
- Work with your team to pick your article, design your workplan, and post it on the talk page of the article you've selected
- Assign yourself the relevant Wikipedia article on this course dashboard (for help see the "How to assign yourself the right Wiki page" document through the CLE)
- Resources
Resources you may find useful as you engage in this work
- shortcut to the list of eligible pages stratified by small group
- shortcut to Workplan advice
- shortcut to exemplar Workplan templates
- shortcut to Amin's Important vs. Urgent framework
- shortcut to a MCW medical librarian's handout on open resources to seek citations
- Additional MCW librarian's video resources:
Introduction to resources for Wikipedia editing: https://youtu(.)be/-lLwFyB6fBU
Full access literature available in PLOS and BMC: https://youtu(.)be/oXa0wVPTIXc
Finding images for Wikipedia: https://youtu(.)be/tmjeqRyZnec
PubMed overview: https://youtu(.)be/5FqwA3-FLh8
- Assignment - Basic Wikipedia training modules
These are the Wiki Ed produced training modules that we believe are important and relevant to your work on this Inquiry task. You are expected to complete all of them before your heads hit your pillows on Sunday 8/28.
- Assignment - Editing Wikipedia as a health-professional student
These are additional training modules that are especially relevant to you as medical students. You are also expected to complete these by the time your heads hit your pillows on Sunday 8/28.
- Assignment - How to assign yourself an article for this course
- Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 15 August 2022
- Assignment - Workplan
By the time your heads hit your pillows on Sun 8/28, 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, we 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?
Resources you may find useful as you engage in this work
- shortcut to the list of eligible pages stratified by small group
- shortcut to Workplan advice
- shortcut to exemplar Workplan templates
- shortcut to Amin's Important vs. Urgent framework
- shortcut to a MCW medical librarian's handout on open resources to seek citations
- Additional MCW librarian's video resources:
Introduction to resources for Wikipedia editing: https://youtu(.)be/-lLwFyB6fBU
Full access literature available in PLOS and BMC: https://youtu(.)be/oXa0wVPTIXc
Finding images for Wikipedia: https://youtu(.)be/tmjeqRyZnec
PubMed overview: https://youtu(.)be/5FqwA3-FLh8
- Milestones
BEFORE your Inquiry small group on Mon 8/29 you should be researching background information needed to improve your selected page. Use inquiry strategies you've learned throughout your medical school journey thus far to ensure you seek high quality information sources.
- In class - Inquiry In Action
- Wikipedia Editing for Health Professionals Small Group 1
Tasks to complete during this session on Mon 8/29:
- Complete at least your first live edits on Wikipedia (e.g not "merely" in your individual sandboxes)
- Address any teamwork issues that have come up
- Work with your small group classmates to compare/contrast your experiences across your selectd articles and share best practice peer-advice
Tasks to complete between 8/29 - 9/12:
- Continue your team's collaborative efforts on the articles you've selected
- Work collaboratively with any Wikipedians who are engaging with your work on the talk pages of your selected articles
Resources you may find useful as you engage in this work
- shortcut to the list of eligible pages stratified by small group
- shortcut to Workplan advice
- shortcut to exemplar Workplan templates
- shortcut to Amin's Important vs. Urgent framework
- shortcut to a MCW medical librarian's handout on open resources to seek citations
- Additional MCW librarian's video resources:
Introduction to resources for Wikipedia editing: https://youtu(.)be/-lLwFyB6fBU
Full access literature available in PLOS and BMC: https://youtu(.)be/oXa0wVPTIXc
Finding images for Wikipedia: https://youtu(.)be/tmjeqRyZnec
PubMed overview: https://youtu(.)be/5FqwA3-FLh8
- Assignment - Everyone has started writing
Six weeks may feel like a long time, but it's remarkably short for this kind of work! We expect each of you will have begun making edits live on Wikipedia (e.g. not merely in your sandboxes) by the time you finish your Inquiry in action small groups on Mon 8/29 (half-way through this dedicated time for this Inquiry in Action task).
Resources you may find useful as you engage in this work
- shortcut to the list of eligible pages stratified by small group
- shortcut to Workplan advice
- shortcut to exemplar Workplan templates
- shortcut to Amin's Important vs. Urgent framework
- shortcut to a MCW medical librarian's handout on open resources to seek citations
- Additional MCW librarian's video resources:
Introduction to resources for Wikipedia editing: https://youtu(.)be/-lLwFyB6fBU
Full access literature available in PLOS and BMC: https://youtu(.)be/oXa0wVPTIXc
Finding images for Wikipedia: https://youtu(.)be/tmjeqRyZnec
PubMed overview: https://youtu(.)be/5FqwA3-FLh8
- In class - Inquiry In Action
- Wikipedia Editing for Health Professionals Small Group 2
Tasks to complete during this session on Mon 9/12:
- Work out which article your team will be per-reviewing (must be one of the articles another team from your small group is working on)
- Self-assign your peer review to all members of your team on this UCSF Inquiry course dashboard
- Design a plan for conducting your peer review
Tasks to complete between 9/12 - 9/19:
- Post your peer review(s) on the talk page of the article you reviewed
- Look at the peer review(s) you received from your classmates
- Respond to your peer review(s) to further improve your selected articles
- If you disagree with any elements of your peer review, respectfully discuss further on the relevant talk pages
- Plan for your final presentations in your forthcoming Inquiry small groups
Resources:
- shortcut to a Wiki-literature library:
- items that start with a number have been published in peer-reviewed journals
- items that start with a letter are from the "grey-literature"
- Assignment - Peer review an article
Please perform peer reviews beginning as early as Tues 9/13
- What should a peer-review look like? Here are suggestions from prior UCSF MS-4's who have done the MS4 elective version of this assignment:
- Read the page that my peer worked on!
- Correct any spelling or grammar mistakes you see
- Look for missing citations, look for copyright violations
- Read their workplan
- Check the validity of a few citations
- Ensure neutrality for any controversial topics/domains
- Look at the sequence and readability of the text-- remember this is not just for other medical students!
- Look at the images-- make sure they're not copyright violations
- Look for the format/structure and that it adheres to the Wikiproject Medicine style guide
- Feel free to look at the prior UCSF MS-4 Wiki editing courses for other examples of peer-review
- Point out overuse of jargon?
- Don't re-write any original text but instead make broad yet specific suggestions
- Take some time to become familiar with the page they edited so you can give specific advice
- Consider communicating with your reviewee on what they're looking for feedback on.
- Consider reviewing their intended workplan for the month!
- Look for (and catch) typos, grammatical errors
- Provide encouragement (remember ye old feedback sandwich?)
- We as peer-reviewers should know the audience of viewers/readers and keep that in mind as we provide peer-review
- Below there's a link to a grading rubric that Wiki Ed offers 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.
Peer Review Logistics:
- Post the peer-review on the TALK page of the article you are reviewing.
- While we have not formally assigned you a due date for peer reviews, you should balance time for you to conduct the review with time for your classmates to read and respond to that peer review before everyone's final team presentations on Mon 9/19.
Resources:
- Milestones
Well before your final Inquiry small groups on 9/19, ALL peer-reviews should have been completed and posted to the talk page of the page being reviewed. Each student should individually review and post his/her/their own INDIVIDUAL review of the page being reviewed.
- In class - Discussion
- 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 article to make those changes.
How to respond to the peer-reviewer's comments? Here are suggested guidelines as compiled by prior UCSF medical students enrolled in the MS-4 elective version of this assignment:
- Consider incorporating all their suggestions as best you can in the remaining time of our course
- Respond professionally
- Where you disagree with your peer-reviewer explain why you disagree
- he peer-reviewer has the best of intentions
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- Specifically address each (all?) of their recommendations
- If you disagree, politely explain why you disagree
Resources:
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 29 August 2022
- 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.
- 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 - Inquiry In Action
- Wikipedia Editing for Health Professionals Small Group 3
Mon 9/19
Final presentations will be structured as follows:
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- Assignment Research Study (if you are willing to participate)