Wikipedia:McMaster University/Canadian Conference on Medical Education 2021

Leveraging open scholarship in medical education with Wikipedia is a private online Wikipedia event for attendees of the 2021 Canadian Conference on Medical Education. Join the event to get an introduction to editing Wikipedia and have fun editing the Wikipedia article of your choice. No prior Wikipedia editing experience is required.

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Preparation
Just show up
 * 1) Create a Wikimedia account if you do not have one.
 * 2) Please sign in so that the organizer can find your account name and the article you edited
 * 3) Editing Wikipedia requires citing sources. Check out some Cochrane Reviews if you would like some inspiration.

Program
All doctors will treat patients who read Wikipedia medical articles about medical conditions, drugs, and procedures. Attendees of this event will gain some understanding of what Wikipedia is and why it matters in health and medical education. Everyone who joins will get the opportunity to add information any Wikipedia article of their choice.


 * Intro to Wikipedia's medical information
 * 3:30-3:32 - Welcome
 * 3:32-3:50 - Intro to Wikipedia
 * 3:50-4:00 - Questions


 * Wikipedia editing
 * 4:00-4:05 - hands on! register account, step out if you just wanted the lecture
 * 4:05-4:30 - We all edit Wikipedia!


 * Attendee show and tell


 * 4:30-4:45 - Show what you edited on Wikipedia
 * 4:45-4:50 - Review of this event page for more resources
 * 4:50-5:00 - thanks, wrap up, see you next time

Videos

 * People research Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia for public health communication professionals
 * Students and universities have a role in public education

Rationale/Background
In conventional health communication and education, expert organizations take for granted that the quality of their information is high. However, the distribution and dissemination of this information to relevant audiences can be challenging. Wikipedia has the opposite challenge. It has a large audience requesting particular information but seeks expert partnerships to develop its content. English Wikipedia is the 7th most accessed web page in Canada and at the end of 2013, its medical content had collectively received 4.8 billion page views (Heilman, 2015). We will review the precedent of experts and organizations sharing medical information through Wikipedia and measure the impact of these efforts. We will provide participants with an opportunity to explore Wikipedia's medical information, their potential to help build its medical content, and its utility as a tool in educating medical students who can learn to find, critically appraise, and summarize in plain language, high-quality evidence.

About the event
A brief introduction to the utility of Wikipedia as an educational tool (15-20 minutes) followed by small-group editing training with guidance from the instructor(s)
 * Instructional Methods

Anyone curious about Wikipedia, its role in medical education, its internal review system, its reliability and utility, or a gentle introduction to editing. No experience required. Experienced editors are welcome.
 * Target audience

Participants will be able to add one sentence and one citation to Wikipedia and access Wikipedia's specialized educator tools. Skills taught include: Monitoring students during editing projects; Publishing in Wikipedia; Measuring readership and impact; How to query Wikipedia's general reference structured data
 * Learning Objective

Wikipedia tools
These tools are supplements to the presentation, and explaining them is beyond the scope of this event! The following are examples of Wikipedia tools which educators and communication professionals may use to evaluate Wikipedia article quality, development, and community participation. Users who want to learn Wikipedia's monitoring processes can test these tools for themselves.

Pageviews is a tool which reports how many times readers have accessed a given Wikipedia article. Within the tool there are variants, such as "Massviews" which gives an aggregate report for any set of Wikipedia articles, and "Langviews" which gives a report for a single Wikipedia article but in every language Wikipedia translation.
 * Pageviews


 * example: Pageviews traffic report for Wikipedia articles related to COVID-19 vaccination

To access this feature, go to any Wikipedia article, click "history", then click "Pageviews".

The Programs and Events Dashboard is a event management tool which, for example, instructors may use to manage a class where each student edits a different Wikipedia article as part of a class project. With this tool the instructor can see each individual student's contributors and also display class results in aggregate.
 * Programs and Events Dashboard


 * example: a report of COVID-19 editing

"Article Info" counts the number of edits and editors which any given Wikipedia article has, then displays data visualizations which show what percentage of edits and content came from the most active users. This tool is useful for exploring how many people developed an article, and the extent to which its development was distributed among many contributors.
 * Article Info, a feature of the Wikipedia Xtools Suite


 * example: Xtools' Article Info for COVID-19 pandemic.

To access this feature, go to any Wikipedia article, click "history", then click "Page Statistics".

This is one of many tools which reviewers may use to judge whether to accept or reject edits to Wikipedia. This tool is popular because (1) it makes a game of reviewing (2) new users can quickly learn to play (3) it has a user-friendly interface, which is uncommon in Wikipedia's clunky software and (4) people trust it because robots keep records of how often reviewers are in consensus with each other on their judgements.
 * Wikiloop Doublecheck

To play, login to your Wikipedia account then click "anonymous" in the top right to log into this tool.
 * WikiLoop Doublecheck

Thanks
Organizations providing Wikipedia support for this event include the following:

Developing Wikipedia is a collaborative effort. Thanks to everyone who contributes to the success of this and other Wikipedia programs in medicine. The nature of the support is as follows -
 * The Canadian Conference on Medical Education is hosting the event
 * Wikimedia Medicine is the international volunteer chapter of the Wikipedia community supporting the development of Wikipedia's medical coverage.
 * Cochrane is available to support Wikipedia contributors in accessing its publications.
 * Wiki Education Foundation provides support for wiki editing in classrooms and educational programs

Contact

 * Denise Smith (user:Mcbrarian, dsmith@mcmaster.ca) is an academic health sciences librarian at McMaster University
 * Lane Rasberry (user:bluerasberry, rasberry@virginia.edu) is Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Virginia.