On-boarding checklist — for determining whether it is a Wiki Ed-supported courseedit
We know the maximum number of students expected in the course.
If there are more than 50 students in a general course (or between 35—50 in a medical/psychology course), the program manager will:
schedule a phone call and determine:
the instructor's experience either editing or teaching with Wikipedia
the amount of content the students are expected to add
the number of articles the students are expected to edit
the number of Teaching Assistants or co-instructors in the course
advise, based on this information, whether the assignment is too big for the instructor's experience
between 70—100 courses, the program manager will only approve the assignment if the students are working in groups, adding no new pages or significant content (e.g., writing a lead based on the existing content in the article), or adding a small amount of content after posting on the article talk page
If there are more than 50 students in a medical or psychology course, we have actively discouraged them from doing a Wikipedia assignment in this course.
If there are 100+ students expected in the course, the program manager has contacted the instructor to indicate why this will be a problem and that s/he needs to pull the Wikipedia assignment.
If the instructor still intends to do the assignment, the program manager will add any known details to the Education noticeboard to alert the community.
The instructor has indicated that students might edit medical/psychology articles.
mail the medical or psychology brochure to each student
follow up: will instructor actively discourage if the topic of the course is not primarily medical or psychology (e.g., an information studies or composition course)?
add a Wiki Ed category to the Course Page so WikiProject Med members can monitor if they want
Program manager has reviewed the course plan and assignment description?
We cross-referenced this description with our list of red flags (see below)?
Has the instructor included our online training as part of their assignment?
If not, the program manager has reached out to stress the importance of having all of their students go through it.
If they will not require it, the program manager has determined what other training methods they have in place and whether this sounds reasonable.
The instructor will have their students start work either in sandboxes or the article namespace—students will not use other off-line spaces like Word.
The students will still be in the class for at least a week after they publish live articles.
