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Take a look at Alexa's web traffic statistics on Wikipedia - it's the 7th most visited site globally, and the 6th most visited site in the United States. In a survey of 4th-year pharmacy students at UCSF, about 65% of those students reported accessing Wikipedia or Google as an information source on their experiential rotations.
With such a wide audience accessing Wikipedia, why not use your drug information skills to improve the information stored there? That very question is the inspiration behind this Wikipedia assignment; after all, not everyone has access to Lexicomp, Micromedex, and UpToDate.
Resources: * Dr. Wikipedia: The 'Double-Edged Sword' of Crowdsourced Medicine
Resources: * Wikipedia Training for Students
Watch Learning Module #1: Background and General Information on Wikipedia
Watch Learning Module #2: Tips and Tricks for Pharmacy Students on Editing Within the Wiki Platform
Handouts: * Editing Wikipedia * Editing Wikipedia Articles on Medicine * Using Talk Pages * Evaluating Wikipedia
Watch Learning Module #3: Drug Information Research Skills
Resources: * Using MeSH to Build a Better PubMed Inquiry * Zotero: A How-To Guide
This in-class session will be split up into 2 sections:
Discussion Section in N-225 * Overview of the Wikipedia assignment * Presentation by James Heilman, MD
Lab Session in CL-230/231 * Discussion of 2 sample wikipedia articles - recommended changes and how to implement
This is an optional office hours session that will be held in room S214.
By 11/5/15 at 1200, do the following: * Submit your edits to your given Wikipedia article page. * On the Talk page of your Wikipedia article, provide some guidance to your peer reviewer on the focus of your edits.
By 11/9/15 at 1200, peer review another group's first draft edits for their Wikipedia article. Post your peer review to the Talk page, and keep the following 3 items in mind:
By 11/12/15 at 1200, submit your group's final edits to your Wikipedia article.