Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Wikiproject Medicine (Winter 2015)/Timeline
Timeline edit
Syllabus for the course:
Week 1 (1/13): Wikipedia Introduction and Editing Basics edit
- In class
- Overview of the course
- Introduction: Picking an article, Using Wikipedia
- Making Accounts/Enrolling in a Course Page
- How Do I Edit?
- Tips on finding the best articles to work on for class assignments
- Talk about Wikipedia culture and etiquette, and visit the concept of sandboxes and how to use them.
- Handout: Editing Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wiki Education Foundation)
- Handouts: Citing sources on Wikipedia and Avoiding plagiarism on Wikipedia
- Milestone
- All students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.
- All students have chosen an article to add to the class’s course page.
Week 3 (1/27) CANCELED FOR SNOWSTORM: Wikipedia as a source of medical information edit
- In class
- Speaker: Jeremy Faust, PGY3 at Mount Sinai and medical writer
Week 5 (2/10): Exploring the topic with Doc James edit
- In class
- Select one classmates’ articles that you will peer review and copy-edit.
- Who is using wikipedia and why?
- Introduction to the Translation Task Force
Week 7 (2/24): Medical Writing edit
- In class
- Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good and bad articles
- Discuss how to cut down, reorganize, and add content
- Review a peer's edits and post to the talk page
- Share experiences and discuss problems.
Week 9 (3/10): Class presentations edit
- In class
- Students give in-class presentations about their experiences editing Wikipedia.
- Link to presentation
- Slide 1: Article, pageviews, rating/importance, anything else
- Slide 2: Issues you had with editing (eg finding resources, why your page was easy/difficult to edit)
- Eat pizza and cake, and celebrate!