Wikipedia:McMaster University/Program for Faculty Development

This Wikipedia Workshop Series is a private online Wikipedia event for the Program for Faculty Development at McMaster University. The series consists of one workshop a week for three weeks. Join this even to learn how to edit Wikipedia, how to create new articles, and how to provide learning opportunities of your learners and trainees using Wikipedia.

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Week 1
Free does not mean poor: Improving health and medical information on the world’s largest encyclopedia

Wikipedia’s health and medical pages are accessed with more frequency than any other health information web site in the world, with disproportionate access from geographic areas where access to physicians, hospitals, or trusted government information is limited. If you have knowledge, you have knowledge to share. Join this workshop to learn how you can leverage your expertise to improve the world’s most popular source of health information.
 * Have you read Wikipedia recently?
 * Do your learners or trainees read Wikipedia?
 * Do you want to disseminate your publications or the publications of your peers beyond your professional community?

Program
 * 3:30 Welcome & introductions
 * 3:40 Navigate to meetup page & join the dashboard
 * 3:45 Introduction to Wikipedia
 * 4:10 Adding research publications to Wikipedia: What you need to know
 * 4:30 Edit together exercise
 * 5:15 Wrap-up

Week 2
Starting from scratch: building new health and medical pages in Wikipedia

Rare health conditions, women’s health issues, marginalized genders and racialized people are underrepresented in Wikipedia’s health and medical pages. Join this workshop to learn more about the community guidelines for new pages in Wikipedia. Participants will have an opportunity to draft a stub article on a topic or person currently not represented in the world’s most frequently accessed source of health information.
 * Do you want to do more than improve existing articles on Wikipedia?
 * Are there people or topics missing from Wikipedia that you have expertise or knowledge about?
 * Does the lead scientist in your lab have a Wikipedia page?

Program
 * 5:00 Welcome & introductions
 * 5:10 Navigate to meetup page & join the dashboard
 * 5:15 Article creation basics
 * 5:45 Creating a new article
 * 6:00 Article creation & building (in sandbox)
 * 6:30 Wrap-up

Women in Red articles for creation
 * WP:Women in Red
 * Red List
 * Jeannie Callum: This is the article we created together

Week 3
Teacher Wikipedia: Leveraging Wikipedia article editing to teach principles of evidence-based medicine and knowledge translation

Your learners have specialized skills and knowledge as well as access to high-quality health evidence. These can be leveraged to make substantial contributions to Wikipedia. Editing Wikipedia’s health and medical content can teach your learners principles of evidence-based medicine, knowledge translation skills, communication skills as they interact with the editing community across the world, and allow them to situate themselves and their privilege(s) within the broader health information landscape. Join this final workshop in the Wikipedia series to learn how you can integrate Wikipedia editing into the education of your trainees, learners, or mentees.

Program
 * 3:30 Welcome & introductions
 * 3:40 Navigate to meetup page and join the dashboard
 * 3:45 Wikipedia as an educational tool in higher education
 * 4:15 How has Wikipedia editing been applied to learning at McMaster?
 * 4:45 Integrating Wikipedia into learning practice
 * 5:00 Q&A and workshop series wrap-up

Teaching support
 * WikiEducation: for more information about WikiEdu
 * WikiEdu: Website
 * Programs & Events Dashboard

Videos

 * Students and universities have a role in public education
 * People research Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia for public health communication professionals
 * Engaging the University Community with Wikipedia Curating and Creation

General article policies and guidelines

 * WikiProject Med: Guidlines
 * Neutral point of view (NPOV)
 * Verifiability
 * No original research (NOR)
 * Righting great wrongs

Adding a citation

 * 1) Create a Wikimedia account if you do not have one.
 * 2) Please sign in to the dashboard so that the organizer can find your account name and the article you edited
 * 3) Select an article from the list below or pick your own
 * 4) Find the  tag on the article
 * 5) Use any appropriate resource to search for an retrieve a high-quality source that can be used to verify the sentence that is missing a citation
 * 6) Edit the article to add the citation

Articles with citation needed
Use the citation hunt tool or,

This list of selected articles with citation needed tags is current as of April 23, 2021. This list was derived from WikiProject Medicine's clean up list.


 * 1) Alcohol (drug)
 * 2) Assisted suicide
 * 3) Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder controversies
 * 4) Autism
 * 5) B vitamins
 * 6) Cancer stem cell
 * 7) Cholera
 * 8) Cognitive behavioral therapy
 * 9) COVID-19 vaccine
 * 10) Lipoma
 * 11) Liposarcoma
 * 12) Electrocardiography
 * 13) Endometriosis
 * 14) Fever
 * 15) Food allergy
 * 16) Geriatrics
 * 17) Hair loss
 * 18) Health effects of tobacco
 * 19) Heart rate
 * 20) Hodgkin lymphoma
 * 21) Influenza A virus subtype H1N1
 * 22) Lead poisoning
 * 23) Lyme disease
 * 24) Magnetic resonance imaging
 * 25) Measles
 * 26) Mechanical ventilation
 * 27) Mercury poisoning
 * 28) Neoplasm
 * 29) Neurology
 * 30) Nocturnal enuresis
 * 31) Organ donation
 * 32) Post-traumatic stress disorder
 * 33) Rheumatoid arthritis
 * 34) Sinusitis
 * 35) Substance dependence
 * 36) Tetrahydrocannabinol
 * 37) Tianeptine
 * 38) Varicose veins
 * 39) Vasectomy
 * 40) Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia

Creating new articles

 * Biographies of living persons
 * Notability (people)
 * Requested Articles

Thanks
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 Health Libraries Association is hosting the event
 * #1Lib1Ref is the campaign that encourages all librarians to add at least one citation to Wikipedia

Contacts

 * Denise Smith (user:Mcbrarian, dsmith@mcmaster.ca) is an academic health sciences librarian at McMaster University
 * Siraj Mithoowani
 * Teresa Chan
 * Catherine Tong
 * Ilana Bayer