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Vaccine Safety Edit-a-thon - October 9, 2021       @WikimediaDC

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The World Health Organization has named vaccine hesitancy, or anti-vaccination, as one of the top ten threats to global health in 2019. At the same time, the spread of health-related misinformation has fueled concerns about the potential dangers or inefficacy of vaccines.

Wikipedia is an important resource for up-to-date, accurate vaccine information, and it is currently one of the most frequently visited sites for healthcare information worldwide. NewsQ’s KNoW Science initiative has partnered with the WHO’s Vaccine Safety Net and Wikimedia DC to help expand Wikipedia’s existing vaccine-related content.

As a part of these efforts KNoW Science, Científicas Mexicanas, and Wikimedia DC are organizing a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to evaluate and improve Wikimedia content about vaccines, including vaccine safety.

The event will be open to anyone interested in promoting accurate vaccine information online. Training will be provided -- so no experience is necessary to join the event!

When

October 9 - Time: 2pm-3:25 pm US Eastern time

Register

Please register for the conference to attend

Agenda

  • KNoW Science Overview
  • Científicas Mexicanas
  • Wikimedia DC Introduction
  • Introduction to event page and editing training
  • Editing time

Please sign in using the dashboard[edit]

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  3. John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) 19:32, 9 October 2021 (UTC) (for some reason it didn't enroll me on the dashboard)[reply]

Agenda and notes[edit]

Wikimedia policies, quick tips and related resources[edit]

Policies

Your first article

Tips

Wikimedia and other related projects

Tools, Resources

Medicine, health, and Wikimedia

Presentation[edit]

Suggested worklist in English[edit]

View Spanish-laguage event page and work list

Editors are not restricted to the vaccine-related content on this list. Feel free to edit other articles as well.

Low expertise[edit]

Medium expertise[edit]

High expertise[edit]

Please find more general topics listed here or from the Listeria list here.

Related Categories: Each contains an extensive article list

Related WikiProjects to include on talk pages

Suggested worklist in Spanish[edit]

To translate from Spanish to English[edit]

COVID-19 Pandemic in México/ Pandemia de COVID-19 en México

Medical personel from México/Personal médico de México

Hospitals from México/ Hospitales de México

Note: to link to a Spanish or other foreign language article from an English Wikipedia page, use the {{ill}} (inter-language link) template

Create both in English and Spanish[edit]

Pandemic on México/ Pandemia en México

Medical personel from México/Personal médico de México

Improve articles in both English and Spanish Wikipedia[edit]

Medical personel from México/Personal médico de México

Hospitals from México/ Hospitales de México

Resource List[edit]

Here is a LINK to reliable sources from organisations publishing on vaccine safety related topics, it includes reports, blog posts, databases, maps, news articles etc.

References from above[edit]

  1. ^ Denise A. Smith. 2020. Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review. PLoS ONE 15(2): e0228786. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228786
  2. ^ Giovanni Colavizza. COVID-19 research in Wikipedia. Bioarxiv working paper. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.10.087643v3

Attendees[edit]

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