Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Virginia/VMED COVID-19 Initiative May 2020
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| Event details | |
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| Date: | Monday May 18, 2020 |
| Time | 5-6pm EST |
| Where: | https://virginia.zoom.us/my/wikilgbt |
| slides | Intro to Wikipedia's medical content for med students |
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The VMED COVID-19 Initiative at the University of Virginia is hosting Intro to Wikipedia's medical content for med students, a presentation of Wikipedia's place in the COVID-19 media environment. Wikipedia is a highly consulted source of information on all sorts of topics including medical topics. Attendees of this event will learn how Wikipedia works and how medical students can edit Wikipedia articles to improve global access to information.
No preparation or prior Wikipedia experience required!
This talk and all attendee participation will be recorded and available here after the event.
Schedule[edit]
- 0:00-0:05 - Welcome
- 0:05-0:25 - presentation on Wikipedia
- 0:25-0:45 - Discussion and demos
- 0:45-0:55 - VMED student Wikipedia editing?
- 0:55-1:00 - wrap up and thanks!
Further consideration[edit]
- Wikipedia community projects
- WikiProject Medicine
- WikiProject COVID-19
- WikiProject Disaster management
- WikiProject Humanitarian Wikidata
- academic research on Wikipedia's medical information
- Weiner, Shira Schecter; Horbacewicz, Jill; Rasberry, Lane; Bensinger-Brody, Yocheved (18 March 2019). "Improving the Quality of Consumer Health Information on Wikipedia: Case Series". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 21 (3): e12450. doi:10.2196/12450. PMC 6441860. PMID 30882357.
- Azzam, Amin; Bresler, David; Leon, Armando; Maggio, Lauren; Whitaker, Evans; Heilman, James; Orlowitz, Jake; Swisher, Valerie; Rasberry, Lane; Otoide, Kingsley; Trotter, Fred; Ross, Will; McCue, Jack D. (2016). "Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia". Academic Medicine. 92 (2): 194–200. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000001381. ISSN 1040-2446. PMC 5265689. PMID 27627633.
- health information on Wikipedia profile in Scholia
- Smith, Denise A.; Triberti, Stefano (18 February 2020). "Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review". PLOS ONE. 15 (2): e0228786. Bibcode:2020PLoSO..1528786S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228786. PMC 7028268. PMID 32069322.
Support[edit]
Community organizations contributing to the success of and fun of this presentation include the following:
- University of Virginia The VMED COVID-19 Initiative is a coalition of medical students at the University of Virginia who host this meeting.
- Wikimedia Medicine is volunteer community organization which is the center of Wikipedia medical content development
- Cochrane remains available to provide access to Cochrane publications or talk with Wikipedia contributors about using good sources.
- Wiki Education Foundation sponsors the infrastructure which assists academic development of Wikipedia, including the metrics tracking profiled in this talk.
- Wikimedia New York City supports medical content development including many featured projects in this talk
Presenter Lane Rasberry is Wikimedian-in-residence at the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia. His interests include popular science, consumer protection, civic engagement, access to health information, clinical research, the Open Movement, data science, LGBT history, and Wikimedia projects.