Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of California San Francisco/Health Policy (Fall 2017)
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- Course name
- Health Policy
- Institution
- University of California San Francisco
- Instructor
- Courtney Gomas
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Health Policy
- Course dates
- 2017-08-14 00:00:00 UTC – 2017-10-20 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 20
This course will help you learn skills that help you to advocate effectively for change in direct patient care, within health care organizations, and in the wider political infrastructure. Policy changes can dramatically shift health care and public health outcomes: examples include the passage of the Affordable Care Act, tobacco control, motor vehicle safety, occupational safety, lead poisoning prevention, funding for prevention and control of infectious diseases, and preparedness and response for epidemics and terrorism. These changes and others decreased the age-adjusted death rate in the US from 881.9 per 100,000 in 1999 to 731.9 per 100,000 in 2013.
Timeline
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 11 September 2017 | Tuesday, 12 September 2017 | Wednesday, 13 September 2017 | Thursday, 14 September 2017 | Friday, 15 September 2017
- Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia
- Create a Wikipedia account for each member of your discussion group to use for editing your selected article. This will be the primary mechanism for tracking your edits, so please exercise professional judgment in selecting your account names. Note that Wikipedia does not allow group accounts, and will shut down accounts that appear to be named for groups.
- Join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.
- It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.
- Assignment - Choose a Policy Topic
The first step is to choose a policy topic.
- First, take the "Editing Medical Topics" training and review page 6 of your Editing Wikipedia guidebook.
- Then, do some research to help you pick your topic. Please begin by considering topics that Wikiproject Medicine has identified as high priority areas for editing. The Wikiproject Medicine page is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine. Go to “Tools” and check Tasks and Requests for details.
- Another method of finding relevant pages is to look at the “Priority Assessment” header under WikiProject Medicine/Assessment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Assessment.
- You may also choose a topic that appeals to your group, even if it is listed as a low priority.
Each group should choose a different topic; topics are available to groups in the course on a first-come, first-served basis. Once you have chosen your topic, please enter it on the course spreadsheet and the dashboard so that others will not edit the same page.
Important: Some topics, such as vaccines, are considered to be “high risk” for bad-faith editing, and attempted edits to Wikipedia pages on these topics may be locked to limit the need for cleanup. Members of your group should check the talk page of any page that may be viewed as risky in advance to ensure that any edits you make will be accepted and uploaded in time to complete the assignment. If you would like to edit one of these topics, you may need to consult directly with the editor in advance. You can also choose to edit a different, unlocked topic/page.
Once your group has your topic selected, each member of your group should assign themselves your topic in the My Articles section of the Home tab of this course page. You can review all the topics other groups and students have picked by visiting the Students tab of this course page.
- In class - Intertwine
- get started on Wikipedia with your peers!
Intertwine is a platform where you you will be chatting with student editors enrolled in other Wiki Education courses. This week, the featured activities include:
- Creating your own User page
- Learning about user talk page, and writing on others' Talk pages
- Getting to know more Wikipedia editors and learning from each other's experiences
Sign up for a session here. If you haven’t logged in using your Wikipedia account, you will first be redirected to Wikipedia logging page. After logging in using your Wikipedia credentials, you will be able to sign up for our activity.
- Assignment - Draft your changes
- Review and complete the resources below (some listed items include the trainings you should have completed earlier in this week's assignment).
- Determine the nature of the edits you wish to make, research the topic as suggested in the resources, and begin your editing process through the Sandbox. The tutorials and videos provide specific examples of how to edit.
- After completing your edits, provide guidance to your group’s peer reviewers by noting the goals and focus of the group’s edits, and which sections of the article were prioritized, using the “Talk” page.
What kinds of edits are appropriate? The kinds of page edits you should make will depend on the stated needs of the editor on the talk page. Typically editors will ask for additional detail on certain topics, more references, and revision of language to be objective. In the past, students have turned stubs into short articles, turned short articles into long articles, and added one or more sections to longer articles.
Adding several paragraphs of well-referenced content that express a neutral point of view will always be an appropriate edit for this assignment. However edits that do nothing more than change the language of an article to be more neutral, without adding content or references, are not sufficient for this assignment. Other modifications may be appropriate if they are specifically requested by the editor: if in doubt, please post to the course page for clarification.
Each member of the group should be responsible for some portion of the edits; the individual account will be linked to each edit and will show who has made every change and update. When you're done with your group work elect one group member to copy and paste the information you've composed into a Word or Google Doc and upload that to the Forum in the CLE under Week 5. This is how your peers will be able to access and review your content using track changes and/or comments.
Resources
- Editing Wikipedia articles (pdf)
- Editing Wikipedia articles on Medicine (pdf)
- Wikipedia Student Training Modules: https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students
- “Basics”: All sections
- “Special Topics”: Editing Medical Topics and Contributing Images and Media Files
- “How-to refreshers”: All sections
- Setting up a Sandbox and testing edits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2nE6Y5K-BY&feature=youtu.be
- WikiProject Medicine/How to edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/How_to_edit
Optional resources
- Learning Module #1: Background information https://vimeo.com/143296989
- Learning Module #2: Learning Module #2 – Tips and Tricks for Pharmacy Students on Editing Within the Wiki Platform https://vimeo.com/143601106
- Optional: Learning Module #3 – Drug Information Research Skills – A Quick Review https://vimeo.com/143597860
- NPR: Dr. Wikipedia http://www.npr.org/2014/02/08/273680018/dr-wikipedia-the-double-edged-sword-of-crowd-sourced-medicine
- Editing guide (pdf)
- Refworks guide (pdf)
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Sunday, 17 September 2017 | Monday, 18 September 2017 | Tuesday, 19 September 2017 | Wednesday, 20 September 2017 | Thursday, 21 September 2017
- In class - Intertwine
- evaluate a Wikipedia article with your peers!
Intertwine is a platform where you you will be chatting with student editors enrolled in other Wiki Education courses. This week, the featured activities include:
- Learning Wikipedia’s five pillars as evaluation criteria
- Evaluating an existing Wikipedia article with your peers
- Getting to know more Wikipedia editors and learning from each other's experiences
Sign up for a session here. If you haven’t logged in using your Wikipedia account, you will first be redirected to Wikipedia logging page. After logging in using your Wikipedia credentials, you will be able to sign up for our activity.
- Assignment - Peer Review (Individually) the item assigned to you
The components of this week's assignments will take place in the course CLE.
https://courses.ucsf.edu/course/view.php?id=3908
Last week, you & your group completed a first draft of the “Wikipedia” assignment. This week, you will peer review your classmates’ assignments, and next week, you & your group will revise your own assignment to reflect the feedback you have received.
You must return your comments (on your peers' Wikipedia entries) to your peers by this Saturday, 9/23 in order to receive credit.
Please consider both the editor's goals and focus on their edits along with Wikipedia's principles and manual of style. The group editing the Wikipedia page should provide guidance to you by nothing the goals and focus of the edits, and which sections of the article they prioritized. Your reviews should justify your scoring and provide suggestions for improvement.
Directions for peer review
- Visit the Forum Post in Week 5 that has been assigned to you. Download the document, add your comments or track changes
- Complete the Review Form (found in the CLE)
- Return to the Week 5 forum and respond to the original post (with the team's file) by uploading/attaching the document you've commented on and the Peer Review Form
- Additionally, submit those documents in the CLE in Week 6 where you will find an assignment submission link.
Late completion of the peer reviews will result in a 20% reduction in grades every 24 hours. Your peer review will be assessed using the grading rubric in the CLE.
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Sunday, 24 September 2017 | Monday, 25 September 2017 | Tuesday, 26 September 2017 | Wednesday, 27 September 2017 | Thursday, 28 September 2017
- Assignment - Final Wikipedia Article Revisions
Using the comments of your peer reviewers, revise your draft, then move your work to the article on Wikipedia.
Resource
- How to move from sandbox to article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNtaefBjZlI&feature=youtu.be
In addition to moving your content to the actual article (from the sandbox) each student (each member of the group) must copy and create a file of those final edits to attach to the assignment submission link in the CLE (so that you can be graded using the rubric you've found there).
- In class - Intertwine
- review your Wikipedia article draft with your peers!
Intertwine is a platform where you you will be chatting with student editors enrolled in other Wiki Education courses. This week, the featured activities include:
- Sharing the Wikipedia article your drafted with your peers.
- Getting feedbacks from your peers on how to make your Wikipedia article even better
- Providing feedbacks to your peers and help them improve their article
Sign up for a session here. If you haven’t logged in using your Wikipedia account, you will first be redirected to Wikipedia logging page. After logging in using your Wikipedia credentials, you will be able to sign up for our activity.