Wikipedia:Wikipedia in Health Professions Education/Start Your Own Course

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This page offers a beginner's step-by-step guide and teaching resources to help HPE instructors learn about teaching with Wikipedia and designing their own course.


Starting Your Own Wikipedia HPE Course


1. Introductory Materials


2. Create a Wikipedia User Account


3. Practice being a Wikipedian!


4. Design your Wikipedia course


* Additional Teaching Resources



1. Introductory Materials[edit]

Learn the basics of what it means to be a Wikipedian, including how to edit health articles, with the help of the following resources:

Introduction to medical editing video



2. Create a Wikipedia User Account[edit]

You do not need a Wikipedia account to read and edit Wikipedia articles, but you will need a Wikipedia account to start your own WikiEdu course. By creating an account you will also gain access to a number of other useful Wikipedia resources and features.

You can read more about the benefits of creating an account, and find a step-by-step tutorial using the following resources:

Ready to create an account? Click on the link below.


3. Practice being a Wikipedian![edit]

It is important to have some familiarity with the process of editing in the Wikipedia space. The following tutorial page will help give you some practice on what it means to be a Wikipedian. It is geared toward newcomers, but it also offers links to help anyone more easily navigate Wikipedia editing.


4. Design Your Wikipedia Course[edit]

Now that you've created an account and have some practical knowledge it's time to learn begin the process of designing your course. This process will look different for every instructor, but the following pages by the Wikipedia Education Foundation will help break some of this down and start you own your way to setting up your own HPE course.

Additional Teaching Resources[edit]

Wiki Education[edit]

Wiki Education is 501(c) nonprofit organization designed to connect higher education and Wikipedia. Their Wikipedia Student Program includes a range a resources for university faculty who incorporate Wikipedia assignments into their courses.

Wikipedia Student Information Page and Editing Guides[edit]

In response to numerous teaching initiatives on Wikipedia, Wikipedians created an information page with suggestions for developing student assignments editing Wikipedia. This page contains information for instructors on best practices for course design, including a specific section for editing medical articles.

Wikipedia relies on volunteer editors and the Wikipedia community provides many resources and guidelines about how to edit in Wikipedia. Some basic Wikipedia sites are listed here:

Those who edit medical articles in Wikipedia follow strict guidelines, which include Wikipedia's Guideline for Reliable Sources for Medical Articles and Medical Manual of Style. We encourage educators to first familiarize themselves with these guidelines before sharing evidence on Wikipedia.

WikiProject Medicine[edit]

WikiProject Medicine was developed to manage and help in curation of Wikipedia's medical articles. WikiProject Medicine has generated a number of resources that are helpful for university faculty who incorporate Wikipedia assignments into courses in the health care fields. WikiProject Medicine has created a resource to guide new student editors of Wikipedia pages about healthcare. This notice for students includes information about proper Wikipedia editing formats and is designed to be added to student talk pages.

  • Template (copy and past the following template onto student talk pages): {{subst:Medical student notice}} ~~~~
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