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Wikipedia & Medicine: Practical Details for Educators
problemAre you a medical educator? Want to work with your students on adding quality medical content to Wikipedia and don't know how to get started?
solutionThis learning pattern will provide some links that will give you an idea on how to get started.
creatorEsh77
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created on15:00, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
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What problem does this solve?

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Are you a medical educator? Want to work with your students on adding quality medical content to Wikipedia and don't know how to get started? This learning pattern will provide some links that will give you an idea on how to get started.

What is the solution?

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Wonderful news! You will be joining a growing group of educators who teach with Wikipedia and specifically contribute to medical content in Wikipedia. Besides the education portal on outreach, where you can find general resources for implementing Wikipedia into your curriculum, here are some specific links relevant to working on medical content you might find useful.

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Getting started

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  • WikiProject Medicine translation project – WikiProject medicine has started a cross-languages translation project, in collaboration with Translators Without Boarder. They've mapped the most important medical articles needed in every language and created shorter versions of these 797 articles. One activity you can do with your students is ensuring these articles are available in your language. We track the articles in different languages via this google doc. You can also use this Wikidata query to see a list of all articles available in English but not in your language. Under "Not in Language", just change the initial to that of your home wiki.
  • An Online tutorial on editing medical topics - this 10 minutes tutorial will give you an idea for the type of issues you should be conveying to your students. If needed, it could be translated and adapted to your local wiki.
  • Wikipedia & Medicine Facebook group – we've just opened this FB group, where you can connect with the people who run similar projects with their students, ask questions, share your experience and get inspired.
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For further question, please don't hesitate to contact me via this talk page on my email: shani wikimedia.org.il.

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  • When working on adding medical content to Wikipedia in higher education

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