Wikipedia:Touro/Winter 2020



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Thanks for your patience. This event is now online only due to COVID-19.

Event details

 * Sunday, March 15, 2020, at 12:30 PM
 * 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
 * Touro College, Department of Physical Therapy online
 * slides - Touro College Wiki Editing Party

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

 * Wikipedia training, optional, use if you wish
 * 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.
 * 5) Advance training for Wikipedia is not required but available if you want the online tutorial

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.

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

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