Wikipedia:Acoustical Society of America/2021 conference



In Wikipedia Editing Hands-on Workshop / International Year of Sound at the 2021 Acoustical Society of America annual meeting attendees will discuss and edit Wikipedia.

Acoustics experts can become Wikipedia experts and contribute to the International Year of Sound by taking part in this Wikipedia Workshop. The purpose of the workshop is to acquaint new and experienced editors to improving acoustics content on Wikipedia. In the first hour, participants will learn the basics of Wikipedia and how to edit followed by hands-on editing with guidance and support from the experts. More experienced editors are invited to stop by in the second hour to help improve Acoustics content areas of need. At the end of the program, all participants will have contributed to improving Wikipedia Acoustics and feel more comfortable editing on their own.

Please bring your computer and create a Wikipedia account in advance of the Workshop.

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Event details

 * Monday, 29 November, 2021, at 1-3pm
 * Presentations by
 * Thais Morata, User:TMorata, audiologist, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
 * Lane Rasberry, user:bluerasberry, Wikipedian-in-Residence at the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia
 * slides - TBD

Getting started

 * 1) Create a Wikipedia account
 * 2) While logged into your Wikipedia account register for this event through the link above. If prompted, click "join course". This permits identification of your Wikipedia edits.
 * 3) For your topic, read both the Wikipedia article and the academic article on that topic. Deep familiarity is not required, especially of the Wikipedia article.
 * 4) Expect that during the event, you will take information from the academic article and add it to the Wikipedia article.

Agenda

 * 0:00-0:05 - Welcome
 * 0:05-0:20 - Wikipedia: How it works and Why it Matters
 * 0:20-0:35 - Wikipedia's coverage of Medicine and Science
 * 0:35-0:45 - Discussion and demos
 * 0:45-0:50 - End of Lecture; Attendees may leave or stay for Wikipedia editing
 * 0:50-1:00 - Getting started with Wikipedia editing
 * 1:00-1:40 - Edit Wikipedia
 * 1:40-1:50 - Show and tell - what did you edit?
 * 1:50-2:00 - wrap up and thanks!

Goals

 * All participants will gain the ability to describe the nature of health information on Wikipedia, and have more insight into health information on the Internet
 * Learn how to access Wikipedia traffic reports to assess "communication impact" with social media metrics
 * The information submitted to Wikipedia will be read by the public. Wikipedia readers will be better informed based on this event's contributions.

After some months, the class will get a report on the number of pageviews to the Wikipedia articles which the class edited. At any time after the event anyone may visit the tracking dashboard to check readership, a measurement of content added, and other statistics.

Support services
None of this is required, but if you like, use Wikipedia's online support services.
 * Wikipedia training
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox - if you are shy, post sentences to your private sandbox before copy/pasting them to a live Wikipedia article
 * Teahouse Beginners can ask a question online and get an answer at Wikipedia's Teahouse
 * WikiProject Medicine, Wikipedia's own community forum for developing Wikipedia's health content
 * Read 10,000 pages of Wikipedia editing documentation at Help:Contents

Supporting organizations
Organizations supporting this Wikipedia editing event include the following:

Contact
For local Wikipedia support contact user:bluerasberry