Wikipedia:Touro/Fall 2019



This page shares information about a Wikipedia editing party for Touro College's "Occupational Therapy" class. This page provides optional information! Students in the class can read this if they wish, but most of it is not necessary!

Do this before class -
 * 1) Create a Wikipedia account (1 minute)
 * 2) Please register (1 minute)
 * 3) off-wiki preparation (hours, and required, but part of your class and not wiki)
 * 4) find interesting academic medical articles
 * 5) summarize facts in your own words, write them out
 * 6) be ready to add your facts and cite your articles at the wiki event
 * 7) note - besides account creation and registration, all preparation for this is off-wiki
 * 8) come to wiki party for all wiki editing

Event details

 * Tuesday, 3 September, 2019, 3-6pm
 * Professor Beth Chiariello is hosting the event and providing content recommendations
 * Presentation by Lane Rasberry, user:bluerasberry, Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Data Science Institute 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.

Support
All of this is optional.


 * Wikipedia online training (30 minutes)
 * special training for editing medical topics
 * Teahouse Beginners can ask a question online and get an answer at Wikipedia's Teahouse

Agenda

 * 0:00-0:05 - Welcome
 * 0:05-0:20 - presentation on Wikipedia
 * 0:20-0:25 - Discussion and demos
 * 0:25-1:00 - Wikipedia editing party!
 * 1:00-1:10 - check in
 * 1:45-1:55 - showcase
 * 1:55-2:00 - 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?

Following the presentation, anyone may ask any question about Wikipedia to get answers or demonstrations. Following this, it will be time for a Wikipedia "editing party", which is an event in which a group of people edit together. Desktop view, not mobile access, is preferred for this exercise, but come regardless. At the editing party, this is the goal: 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) Come to the event with 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. See referencing for beginners or better, learn at the event

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

Here are some articles which are very popular, and which could include a physical therapy perspective, but which currently hardly mention physical therapy:


 * 1) lymphadema
 * 2) Autism (subtopic focus)
 * 3) Autism
 * 4) Autism
 * 5) Down's Syndrome
 * 6) Cerebral Palsy
 * 7) Spina Bifida
 * 8) learning disabilities
 * 9) Dementia
 * 10) Dementia
 * 11) sexuality and disability
 * 12) pain management
 * 13) pain management

Development of these articles could mean either expanding or adding a section on the intersection of that topic and physical therapy.

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 provides 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.
 * Wikimedia Medicine 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

Tools and support

 * Sara Tabaei, Library Information Literacy Director at the Touro Midtown Library is available to assist students to find resources.
 * WikiProject Medicine, Wikipedia's own community forum for developing Wikipedia's health content

Contact
For local Wikipedia support contact user:bluerasberry