This user is an instructor for the course Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/McMaster_University/HTHSCI_3E03_(Fall_2023). |
This user is an instructor for the course Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/McMaster_University/HTHSCI_3E03_(Fall_2022). |
This user is an instructor for the course Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/McMaster_University/HTHSCI_3E03_(Fall_2021). |
This user is an instructor for the course Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/McMaster_University/HTHSCI_3E03_(F-2020). |
Introduction edit
My name is Denise Smith. I am an academic health sciences librarian at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and I research Wikipedia and consumer health information behaviour. I am instructor in McMaster's Bachelor of Health Sciences (BHSc) program and in Western University's Library and Information Science (MLIS) program.
Current work edit
- Wikipedia and consumer health: A research project that explores how Wikipedia users engage with its health and medical content. This project received a rapid grant from WMF in June 2021 to fund participant stipends and the purchase of qualitative analysis software.
Past work edit
- I teach a course in the Bachelor of Health Sciences program at McMaster University that requires students to edit Wikipedia. Dashboards for each iteration of the course are below:
- Collaboration with McMaster University's Institute for Pain Research & Care:
- Binge eating disorder
- Purging disorder
- Indigenous health project with Jwabba (BHSc, 2021)
- Women's health project with Sahrishmasood (BHSc, 2022)
- In Summer 2021 I began updating articles on Wikipedia about Canadian cities by adding an indigenous land acknowledgment or improving the indigenous history content already present. This work is presently on hold.
- Supervision of two undergraduate honours students in the Bachelor of Health Sciences who requested to edit Wikipedia
Research interests and academics edit
- I research Wikipedia as a health information resource and health information behaviour
- I am (slowly) working towards becoming a more active editor on Wikipedia and Wikidata making any contributions of value that fall within my skill set or expertise
- Feel free to ask me about my research interests or for comment on qualitiative research methods, systematic reviews, health librarianship and information/digital literacy
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- Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: a scoping review[1]
- Does the packaging of health information affect the assessment of its reliability? A randomized controlled trial protocol
- Wikipedia and consumer health
- Wikipedia: An unexplored resource for understanding consumer health information behaviour in library and information science scholarship[2]
- Public knowledge during the COVID-19 infodemic: Health literacy and the effect of Wikipedia. Forthcoming chapter in “Open Knowledge and Wikimedia Projects in Canada”
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Authority control edit
- ^ Smith, Denise A. (2020). "Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review". PloS One. 15 (2): e0228786. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228786. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 7028268. PMID 32069322.
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: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Smith, Denise A. (2021). "Wikipedia: An unexplored resource for understanding consumer health information behaviour in library and information science scholarship". Journal of Documentation. 78 (3). doi:10.1108/JD-03-2021-0049.