Wikipedia:Touro/December 2019



Event report!

Event details

 * Monday, December 10, 2019, 10am
 * Professor Shira Weiner is hosting the event and providing content recommendations
 * Presentation by Lane Rasberry, user:bluerasberry, Wikipedian-in-Residence at the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia

Getting started

 * 1) Create a Wikipedia account
 * 2) While logged into your Wikipedia account, visit the course dashboard. 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.
 * 5) If you feel lost or shy, there are online training options. These take time, and it would be better to try editing and ask questions at the event.

Agenda

 * 0:00-0:05 - Welcome
 * 0:05-0:10 - presentation on Wikipedia
 * 0:10-0:15 - Discussion and demos
 * 0:15-1:00 - Wikipedia editing party!
 * 1:00-1:10 - check in
 * 1:10-1:25 - showcase
 * 1:25-1:30 - wrap up and thanks!

The event will start with a presentation which gives the Wikipedia community perspective on the following:
 * 1) To what extent does Wikipedia matter in health communication?
 * 2) How does one edit Wikipedia?
 * 3) What is Wikipedia's quality control system?

At the editing event these are the activities: Hopefully everyone at the event will add at least 1-3 sentences in the time we have. After making additions, since Wikipedia is public, participants will review the accuracy and quality of classmate's edits. As we leave, participants will be invited to check back on Wikipedia after some time (3-7 days) to see if there is any online community response to anyone's contributions.
 * 1) Review some published source of good information
 * 2) Identify a Wikipedia article where you think information from that source should go
 * 3) In your own words, take information from your source and add it to the Wikipedia article
 * 4) Cite your source.

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
 * Participants will get experience translating information from academic journals into layman health information
 * 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.

Suggested topics
The ideal Wikipedia article to edit in this project is has the following characteristics in this order of importance:
 * 1) Outside of Wikipedia, reliable medical sources present the topic of the article
 * 2) The topic of the article is within the scope of what the class studies
 * 3) The Wikipedia article is important, typically meaning that it gets lots of pageviews (3000/month is great, more is better)
 * 4) The Wikipedia article is underdeveloped in general
 * 5) The Wikipedia article might be developed, but it is lacking the perspective of the theme of this program

Other support
The University of Virginia is providing the presentation at this event. Other organizations supporting Wikipedia outreach to health classes in New York include the following:

All of these organizations endorse this classroom outreach. The nature of the support is as follows -
 * Touro College students and faculty are the participants and the event is hosted at Touro.
 * University of Virginia sponsors the outreach and presentation.
 * Cochrane remains available to provide access to Cochrane publications or talk with Wikipedia contributors about using good sources.
 * Wikimedia New York City is the local volunteer chapter of the Wikipedia community.
 * Wiki Project Med is the international volunteer chapter of the Wikipedia community supporting the development of Wikipedia's medical coverage.
 * Wiki Education Foundation provides support for wiki editing in classrooms and educational programs

Contact
For local Wikipedia support contact user:bluerasberry