Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Georgetown University/Understanding and Navigating Health Inequities in the time of COVID (Fall 2021)

In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment

Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:

• Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
• Evaluating Wikipedia

Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Assignment - COMPLETE TRAININGS FROM LAST WEEK IF YOU HAVE NOT YET

These are very short, from "Week 1" on this timeline. There are also slides and a video on our Canvas page for 10/7. Let me know if you have any questions!!

Please indicate your preferences to me by MIDNIGHT on Weds 10/13

• The goal with our work will be on refining and publishing work from last year's class on these two pages: Social Impact of COVID in the U.S. and Impact of COVID on Prisons.
• You could also take a deeper dive and do some additional work there.
• The class's work from last year is consolidated here, but not yet published.

I walked us through the above last time, and it was also available to you on the Discussion Board thread introducing your options.

Now, I need to know what you're most intersted in "fixing"/upating/publishing from the sub-sections that the different groups worked on, which is broken down in detail in the link in my 3rd bullet point here.

We have an Ideas Worksheet Googledoc from the 9/30 class session that I'll have everyone contribute to. Thanks!

In class - Mini Research Orientation

Understanding Content Gaps

These questions are food for thought as you proceed. You can make notes in your shared googledoc.

Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

FIRST: After you let me know by 10/13 what you're interested in, I'll email everyone confirming who's working on what, and who you'll be working with (ideally at least groups of two makes this less daunting!). I will then assign these groups within the dashboard and you'll see this reflected in "my articles" when you log in next.

NOW: You'll do this assignment based on the article that you will be moving content into -- you can focus on the specific sub-area in your evaluation, but it's good to take at least a brief global view of the article though don't feel the need to be utterly comprehensive as some of these are rather long. Focus on where you'll be making a contribution/fix/edit.

This exercise you can go through solo, just make sure you communicate your thoughts with your partner/s. I'll create COLLABORATION googledocs on Canvas for ease of connection and communication.

Assignment - Review the rules for health topics

Reviewing Sources and Plagiarism on Wikipedia

If you have questions or need clarifications on this, please make a note in your shared googledoc thanks!

Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

• these are a resource and the Medicine one is particularly useful as it lays out specific guidelines to keep in mind*

Medicine

Women's Studies

Assignment - Add to an article

In class - Research and Writing Week

Milestones

Continue drafting process, let me know if you run into any questions or concerns

In class - Continue drafting

make sure your have headings and subheadings that make sense; think about overall fit in the article; making any tweaks to the lead

Assignment - Continue Draftng

make sure your have headings and subheadings that make sense; think about overall fit in the article; making any tweaks to the lead

Assignment - Peer review an article

Guiding framework

In class - Discussion

Milestones

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

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.

Resources:

• Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
• Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Assignment - Continue improving your article

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.

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!

Assignment - Final article

It's the final week to develop your article.

• Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
• Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

In class - In-class presentation

Assignment - Reflective essay

THIS WILL BE YOUR BLOG POST

Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.