Wikipedia:Touro/Winter 2019



Please register!

Event details

 * Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 9-noon
 * Professors Shira Weiner and Yocheved Bensinger-Brody are hosting the event and providing content recommendations
 * Sara Tabaei in the Touro Midtown Library is available to provide library support
 * Presentation by Lane Rasberry, user:bluerasberry, Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Data Science Institute at the University of Virginia
 * Touro College, Department of Physical Therapy, 27 West 23rd Street
 * slides

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

 * The Wikipedia Adventure - an online tutorial
 * 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

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 editathon!
 * 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 "editathon", 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 editathon, 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) Neuropathic pain
 * 2) Pain management
 * 3) Back pain
 * 4) Sprain
 * 5) Knee pain
 * 6) Hip replacement
 * 7) Knee replacement
 * 8) Torticollis
 * 9) Whole body vibration
 * 10) Anterior cruciate ligament injury
 * 11) Gait analysis
 * 12) Rotator cuff tear
 * 13) Repetitive strain injury
 * 14) Patellofemoral pain syndrome
 * 15) Radial tunnel syndrome
 * 16) Median nerve palsy
 * 17) Infrapatellar bursitis
 * 18) Golfer's elbow
 * 19) Snapping hip syndrome
 * 20) Achilles tendinitis
 * 21) Adhesive capsulitis of shoulder
 * 22) Diabetes management
 * 23) Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
 * 24) Orofacial pain
 * 25) Rheumatoid arthritis

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. Your facilitator, user:bluerasberry, does not represent any of them except Consumer Reports. 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

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
 * DOI Wikipedia reference generator, a simple tool for converting a DOI into a citation on Wikipedia
 * The Education program provides Training/For students

Contact
For local Wikipedia support contact user:bluerasberry