Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Virginia/VMED COVID-19 Initiative May 2020

The VMED COVID-19 Initiative at the University of Virginia is hosting Intro to Wikipedia's medical content for med students, a presentation of Wikipedia's place in the COVID-19 media environment. Wikipedia is a highly consulted source of information on all sorts of topics including medical topics. Attendees of this event will learn how Wikipedia works and how medical students can edit Wikipedia articles to improve global access to information.

No preparation or prior Wikipedia experience required!

This talk and all attendee participation will be recorded and available here after the event.

see video on YouTube!

Schedule

 * 0:00-0:05 - Welcome
 * 0:05-0:25 - presentation on Wikipedia
 * 0:25-0:45 - Discussion and demos
 * 0:45-0:55 - VMED student Wikipedia editing?
 * 0:55-1:00 - wrap up and thanks!

Further consideration

 * Wikipedia community projects
 * WikiProject Medicine
 * WikiProject COVID-19
 * WikiProject Disaster management
 * WikiProject Humanitarian Wikidata


 * academic research on Wikipedia's medical information
 * health information on Wikipedia profile in Scholia
 * health information on Wikipedia profile in Scholia
 * health information on Wikipedia profile in Scholia

Support
Community organizations contributing to the success of and fun of this presentation include the following:


 * University of Virginia The VMED COVID-19 Initiative is a coalition of medical students at the University of Virginia who host this meeting.
 * Wikimedia Medicine is volunteer community organization which is the center of Wikipedia medical content development
 * Cochrane remains available to provide access to Cochrane publications or talk with Wikipedia contributors about using good sources.
 * Wiki Education Foundation sponsors the infrastructure which assists academic development of Wikipedia, including the metrics tracking profiled in this talk.
 * Wikimedia New York City supports medical content development including many featured projects in this talk

Presenter Lane Rasberry is Wikimedian-in-residence at the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia. His interests include popular science, consumer protection, civic engagement, access to health information, clinical research, the Open Movement, data science, LGBT history, and Wikimedia projects.

Links

 * VMED COVID-19 Initiative