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- Course name
- Osmosis Wikipedia-editing course July 2019
- Institution
- Osmosis
- Instructor
- Amin Azzam, MD, MA
- Wikipedia Expert
- Shalor (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Medicine
- Course dates
- 2019-07-08 00:00:00 UTC – 2019-08-03 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 27
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 course will help you better understand the WP “ecosystem” including Wikiprojects, Translators Without Borders, and the offline Wikipedia health app. And you will 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 July 2019 | Tuesday, 9 July 2019 | Thursday, 11 July 2019 | Friday, 12 July 2019
- In class - Opening Session
Either Mon 7/8 
9 - 10:30am Eastern or Mon 7/8 1 - 2:30pm Eastern
Welcome to your Wikipedia course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for this course, with links to training modules and our collective workspaces.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.
- Overview of the course & your intros to each other
- Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.
- Presentation by Amin: "Becoming a Wikipedian in medical school"
Tasks to complete before the subsequent session:
- Complete all Wiki-Ed training modules
- Orient yourself to Wikiproject Medicine's project page
- Begin selecting what page you will work on during this course
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
- shortcut to course folder on gDrive
- shortcut to minimum expectations document
- shortcut to Amin's presentation
- shortcut to participant directory
- shortcut to video recording of this session
- Assignment - Basic Wikipedia training modules
These are the Wiki Ed produced training modules that I believe are important and relevant to our work in this course. You are expected to complete all of them by the end of Day 1 of the course.
- Assignment - Editing Wikipedia as a health-professional student
These are additional training modules that are especially relevant to you as medical students. You are expected to complete these by the end of Day 2 of the course.
- In class - Workplan & Peer Review (WPPR) session
Either Tues 7/9 9 - 10:30am Eastern or Tues 7/9 1 - 2:30pm Eastern
- Discuss workplan strategies
- Define expectations of peer-review
- Define expectations of WIP's, gDocs, and slack
- Discuss hemingway editor (time permitting, or defer until WIP#1)
- Walk through gDrive folder architecture (including Wiki literature subfolder)
- Presentation by Johnathon: "Library resources/searching strategies/techniques"
- Presentation by Amin: "An emerging global movement: Embracing Wikipedia-editing in health professional schools"
Tasks to complete before the subsequent session:
- Finalize and declare the page you will work on
- Complete your workplan and post it onto the talk page of your selected page
- Make sure you're included and able to use Slack for our asynchronous communications
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
- shortcut to course folder on gDrive
- shortcut to Workplan advice (from both WPPR sessions)
- shortcut to Workplan template (be sure to make a copy if you intend to use it)
- shortcut to Amin's Important vs. Urgent framework
- shortcut to Amin's presentation
- shortcut to Jonathon's handout
- Jonathon's video resources:
https://youtu(.)be/-lLwFyB6fBU - Introduction to resources for Wikipedia editing
https://youtu(.)be/oXa0wVPTIXc - Full access literature available in PLOS and BMC
https://youtu(.)be/tmjeqRyZnec - Finding images for Wikipedia
https://youtu(.)be/5FqwA3-FLh8 - PubMed overview
- shortcut to video recording of this session
- Assignment - How to assign yourself an article for this course
- In class - Slack stuff
We're going to use slack as our asynchronous communication platform. Here are details:
- Create your slack username and account.
- Hillary from Osmosis should have added you to the slack workspace: osmosis.slack.com
- Hillary should have also added you to the channel "#wiki_summercourse2019"
- You can create any needed additional channels for work teams. Be sure to add Amin to those channels so he can contribute PRN (as needed)
- Assignment - Workplan
By 10am on the day you participate in WIP#1 (e.g. before we start the zoom meeting), 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, I 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:
- shortcut to Workplan template (be sure to make a copy if you intend to use it)
- In class - Work-in-Progress (WIP#1)
Either Thurs 7/11 
10 - 11am Eastern or Fri 7/12 10 - 11am
You will informally present your work-in-progress to Amin and your classmates. We will help troubleshoot or discuss your evolving thoughts on your work.
IF we didn't get to the hemingway editor during WPPR we'll cover that here.
Resources:
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 18 July 2019 | Friday, 19 July 2019
- Milestones
A month-long sumer course may feel like a long time, but it's remarkably short for this kind of work! I expect each of you will have begun making edits live on Wikipedia (e.g. not merely in your sandboxes) before the end of this week.
- In class - Work-in-Progress (WIP#2)
Either Thurs 7/18 9 - 10am Eastern or Fri 7/19 4 - 5pm
You will informally present your work-in-progress to Amin and your classmates. We will help troubleshoot or discuss your evolving thoughts on your work.
Resources:
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 23 July 2019 | Wednesday, 24 July 2019
- In class - Work-in-Progress (WIP#3)
Either Tues 7/23 10 - 11am Eastern or Wed 7/24 10 - 11am (zoom links below)
====== You will informally present your work-in-progress to Amin and your classmates. We will help troubleshoot or discuss your evolving thoughts on your work.
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Resources:
- Assignment - Peer review an article
Please perform peer reviews beginning on Wed 7/24
- What should a peer-review look like? During our WPPR discussion in class on Tues 7/9, we will define specific attributes we will itemize here.
- Peer review of summer 2019:
- Use the SMART framework
- Depersonalize the review by focusing on the task, not the person
- Check for completeness
- Offer suggestions for additional content to add
- Assume best intent in both Wikipedians and fellow student contributors
- Watch closely for intellectual synthesis beyond what is known to be true
- Read your peer's workplan first
- Offer feedback specifically based on your peer's intended goal BUT/AND
- It's OK to offer feedback on other aspects of the page since you're reading it anyways
- It's OK to give the "sandwich method" of feedback as well
- Positive feedback is ALWAYS appreciated!
- Post the peer review on the actual talk page
- Include the good and the “areas for improvement”
- Read their work FIRST before jumping to writing your review
- (time permitting) at least skim example heavily referenced citations to ensure they are appropriately being cited
- Look for examples of erroneous citation (e.g. original authored research)
- Consider categories of peer-review (e.g. sentence structure/grammar, citations, comprehensive, understandability). Remember the categories of the Wikipedia grading scale
- Be respectful with the peer-review
- Read the peer’s workplan before conducting the peer-review
- Consider using actual conversations to discuss/deliver the peer-review
- Offer suggestions for improvement
- 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:
- Peer reviews are DUE by beginning of week 4 = Before you go to sleep on Sun 7/28.
- Post the peer-review on the TALK page of the article you are reviewing.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
- Shortcut to Wiki Ed Wikipedia peer-review rubric
- Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
- In class - Discussion
- 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.
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 29 July 2019 | Friday, 2 August 2019
- Milestones
BEFORE we start our WIP#4 on Mon 7/29 10am, ALL peer-reviews should have been completed and posted to the talk page of the page being reviewed.
- In class - Work-in-Progress (WIP#4)
Either Mon 7/29 10 - 11am Eastern or Mon 7/29 1 - 2pm
====== You will informally present your work-in-progress to Amin and your classmates. We will help troubleshoot or discuss your evolving thoughts on your work.
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Resources:
- 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 draft to make those changes.
How to respond to the peer-reviewer's comments? We'll insert this here during class discussion on Tues 7/9
- Don't take it personally because growth can be challenging
- Peer review is intended to be a gift, not a hostile intent
- Thank them for their review
- Work on their recommended suggestions!
- Be respectful in receiving the feedback
- Appreciate the opportunity to hear a different point of view
- When there is conflicting reviewer comments, it's OK to disrgard one of them
- When you disagree with your reviewer, respectfully explain why
- Try to address all of the reviewer's points, but it's OK if you can't get to them all
- Be cognizant of any work you're avoiding responding to [think of your unconscious]
- Post your response on the talk page where the peer-review is
- Don’t take it personally when reading the review
- Consider responding to the peer reviewer's recommendations
- Don’t be afraid for clarifications, suggestions for improvement
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
- Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
- 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 - Closing Session
Either Fri 8/2 9 - 10am Eastern or Fri 8/2 1 - 2pm Eastern
Final presentations will be structured as follows: round robin "reports" (maximum of 10 minutes each) from each of you as follows:
- What did I accomplish this month (broad overview)?
- What did I learn?
- What will I take forward with me into the future?
- Now in hindsight, is there anything I would have done differently?
Resources:
Tasks to complete before parting ways:
- Complete feedback for Amin for future cycles of the course (in the above gDoc)
- Be sure you give us your preferred mailing address for your Osmosis swag and certificate of completion (in the above gDoc)
- If you are willing to participate in the research study about this course complete the gsurvey here
- Research Study Stuff
Since this is the inaugural time offering this course with a distributed-network of medical students, I'm conducting some medical education research on the course. You are enthusiastically encouraged to participate, but are also welcome to decline to participate.