Icahn School has been hosting Wikipedia meetups for some time now.
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May 2014 Edit-A-Thon. Microbio themed.
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June 2014 Edit-A-Thon. Write about our summer research.
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September 2014 Edit-A-Thon. Emergency Medicine.
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December 2014 Holiday Edit-a-thon
user:Bluerasberry from Consumer Reports will be on hand and on call to assist anyone in the course with anything - email if you need anything
Join the meetup
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4 minute video, The Impact of Wikipedia
- Bookmark this meetup page!
- Review this meetup agenda
- Watch the video "The Impact of Wikipedia", posted to the right
- Create a Wikipedia account
- Click the enroll button at the top left of this course page. You should see your Wikipedia username at the bottom of this course page after enrolling.
- Optionally - go through Wikipedia Training for Students, an online lesson which will help you set up your account and test basic Wikipedia features.
- First meeting Thursday October 1
Meetup 1: Why edit Wikipedia?
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3-minute editing guide for contributors to health topics
- In class
- Discuss purpose of meetup series
- Overview of the meetup series
- Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the meetup series
- Choose a Wikipedia health article to edit
- Edit the article a bit
- On your own - Please complete before meetup 2
- Milestone
- All participants have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on this course page.
- Everyone has made their first Wikipedia edits.
Meetup 2: Editing basics
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a five minute video demonstrating the use of the reference generator
- In class
- Basics of editing
- Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good and bad articles
- Tips on finding articles to develop
- Talk pages and communication on Wikipedia
- On your own - Please complete by meetup 3
- The video to the right about adding references is a simple tutorial on making a reference. If you like, watch the video.
- Reading material for next week - Using Talk Pages and How to get help
- Milestones
- Participants can communicate with their colleagues on Wikipedia
- Everyone has commented on a colleague's Wikipedia edits
Meetup 3: How to ask for assistance
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"Editing Wikipedia articles on medicine", a classroom handout
- In class
- Review of Wikipedia's community oversight processes
- 10 ways to ask a human on Wikipedia for help
- Discussion of the kinds of help that people request
- On your own - Please complete ASAP for good meetup impact metrics
- Respond to whatever feedback you have gotten from your Icahn School colleagues
- Respond to whatever feedback you have gotten from reviewers in Wikipedia
- Milestones
- Everyone edited the Wikipedia article that they liked
- Everyone in meetup reviewed another person's Wikipedia contributions (quality control)
- Everyone responded to the feedback they got from their wiki-meetup colleagues and new friends on Wikipedai
May 2014 Edit-A-Thon. Microbio themed.
June 2014 Edit-A-Thon. Write about our summer research.
September 2014 Edit-A-Thon. Emergency Medicine.
December 2014 Holiday Edit-a-thon
Why Wikipedia in Medicine? - video version of meetup presentation