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Program for Faculty Development (Wikipedia Series)
Event details
Date 12 Nov 2021
Time 13:30 - 5:00 PM EST
Date 29 Nov 2021
Time 25:00 - 6:30 PM EST
Date 316 Nov 2021
Time 33:30 - 5:00 PM EST
Where:Online
SlidesWikipedia Workshop Series 2021
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This Wikipedia Workshop Series is a private online Wikipedia event for the Program for Faculty Development at McMaster University. The series consists of one workshop a week for three weeks. Join this even to learn how to edit Wikipedia, how to create new articles, and how to provide learning opportunities of your learners and trainees using Wikipedia.

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Week 1

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Free does not mean poor: Improving health and medical information on the world’s largest encyclopedia

  • Have you read Wikipedia recently?
  • Do your learners or trainees read Wikipedia?
  • Do you want to disseminate your publications or the publications of your peers beyond your professional community?

Wikipedia’s health and medical pages are accessed with more frequency than any other health information web site in the world, with disproportionate access from geographic areas where access to physicians, hospitals, or trusted government information is limited. If you have knowledge, you have knowledge to share. Join this workshop to learn how you can leverage your expertise to improve the world’s most popular source of health information.

Program

  • 3:30 Welcome & introductions
  • 3:40 Navigate to meetup page & join the dashboard
  • 3:45 Introduction to Wikipedia
  • 4:10 Adding research publications to Wikipedia: What you need to know
  • 4:30 Edit together exercise
  • 5:15 Wrap-up

Week 2

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Starting from scratch: building new health and medical pages in Wikipedia

  • Do you want to do more than improve existing articles on Wikipedia?
  • Are there people or topics missing from Wikipedia that you have expertise or knowledge about?
  • Does the lead scientist in your lab have a Wikipedia page?

Rare health conditions, women’s health issues, marginalized genders and racialized people are underrepresented in Wikipedia’s health and medical pages. Join this workshop to learn more about the community guidelines for new pages in Wikipedia. Participants will have an opportunity to draft a stub article on a topic or person currently not represented in the world’s most frequently accessed source of health information.

Program

  • 5:00 Welcome & introductions
  • 5:10 Navigate to meetup page & join the dashboard
  • 5:15 Article creation basics
  • 5:45 Creating a new article
  • 6:00 Article creation & building (in sandbox)
  • 6:30 Wrap-up

Women in Red articles for creation

Week 3

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Teacher Wikipedia: Leveraging Wikipedia article editing to teach principles of evidence-based medicine and knowledge translation

Your learners have specialized skills and knowledge as well as access to high-quality health evidence. These can be leveraged to make substantial contributions to Wikipedia. Editing Wikipedia’s health and medical content can teach your learners principles of evidence-based medicine, knowledge translation skills, communication skills as they interact with the editing community across the world, and allow them to situate themselves and their privilege(s) within the broader health information landscape. Join this final workshop in the Wikipedia series to learn how you can integrate Wikipedia editing into the education of your trainees, learners, or mentees.

Program

  • 3:30 Welcome & introductions
  • 3:40 Navigate to meetup page and join the dashboard
  • 3:45 Wikipedia as an educational tool in higher education
  • 4:15 How has Wikipedia editing been applied to learning at McMaster?
  • 4:45 Integrating Wikipedia into learning practice
  • 5:00 Q&A and workshop series wrap-up

Teaching support

Videos

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Literature

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  • Mendes, Thiago Bosco; Dawson, Jennifer; Evenstein Sigalov, Shani; Kleiman, Nancy; Hird, Kathryn; Terenius, Olle; Das, Diptanshu; Geres, Nour; Azzam, Amin (2021-09-29). "Wikipedia in Health Professional Schools: from an Opponent to an Ally". Medical Science Educator. 31 (6): 2209–2216. doi:10.1007/s40670-021-01408-6. ISSN 2156-8650. PMC 8480752. PMID 34608425.
  • Brezar, Aleksandar; Heilman, James (2019). "Readability of English Wikipedia's health information over time". WikiJournal of Medicine. 6: 7. doi:10.15347/WJM/2019.007. S2CID 208149595.
  • Maggio, Lauren A.; Willinsky, John M.; Costello, Joseph A.; Skinner, Nadine A.; Martin, Paolo C.; Dawson, Jennifer E. (1 December 2020). "Integrating Wikipedia editing into health professions education: a curricular inventory and review of the literature". Perspectives on Medical Education. 9 (6): 333–342. doi:10.1007/s40037-020-00620-1. PMID 33030643. S2CID 216055022.
  • Smith, Denise A. (18 February 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. PMID 32069322.
  • Azzam, Amin; Bresler, David; Leon, Armando; Maggio, Lauren; Whitaker, Evans; Heilman, James; Orlowitz, Jake; Swisher, Valerie; Rasberry, Lane; Otoide, Kingsley; Trotter, Fred; Ross, Will; McCue, Jack D. (February 2017). "Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia: Final-Year Medical Student Contributions to Wikipedia Articles for Academic Credit at One School". Academic Medicine. 92 (2): 194–200. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000001381. S2CID 24613560.
  • Murray, Heather; Walker, Melanie; Maggio, Lauren; Dawson, Jennifer (June 2018). "24 Wikipedia medical page editing as a platform to teach evidence-based medicine". Oral Sessions: A12.2–A13. doi:10.1136/bmjebm-2018-111024.24. S2CID 158656094.
  • Heilman, James M; West, Andrew G (4 March 2015). "Wikipedia and Medicine: Quantifying Readership, Editors, and the Significance of Natural Language". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 17 (3): e62. doi:10.2196/jmir.4069. PMID 25739399.

Resources

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General article policies and guidelines

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Adding a citation

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"Editing Wikipedia articles on medicine", a classroom handout
  1. Create a Wikimedia account if you do not have one.
  2. Please sign in to the dashboard so that the organizer can find your account name and the article you edited
  3. Select an article from the list below or pick your own
  4. Find the [citation needed] tag on the article
  5. Use any appropriate resource to search for an retrieve a high-quality source that can be used to verify the sentence that is missing a citation
  6. Edit the article to add the citation

Articles with citation needed

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Use the citation hunt tool or,

This list of selected articles with citation needed tags is current as of April 23, 2021. This list was derived from WikiProject Medicine's clean up list.

  1. Alcohol (drug)
  2. Assisted suicide
  3. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder controversies
  4. Autism
  5. B vitamins
  6. Cancer stem cell
  7. Cholera
  8. Cognitive behavioral therapy
  9. COVID-19 vaccine
  10. Lipoma
  11. Liposarcoma
  12. Electrocardiography
  13. Endometriosis
  14. Fever
  15. Food allergy
  16. Geriatrics
  17. Hair loss
  18. Health effects of tobacco
  19. Heart rate
  20. Hodgkin lymphoma
  21. Influenza A virus subtype H1N1
  22. Lead poisoning
  23. Lyme disease
  24. Magnetic resonance imaging
  25. Measles
  26. Mechanical ventilation
  27. Mercury poisoning
  28. Neoplasm
  29. Neurology
  30. Nocturnal enuresis
  31. Organ donation
  32. Post-traumatic stress disorder
  33. Rheumatoid arthritis
  34. Sinusitis
  35. Substance dependence
  36. Tetrahydrocannabinol
  37. Tianeptine
  38. Varicose veins
  39. Vasectomy
  40. Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia

Creating new articles

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Thanks

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Developing Wikipedia is a collaborative effort. Thanks to everyone who contributes to the success of this and other Wikipedia programs in medicine. The nature of the support is as follows -

Contacts

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  • Denise Smith (user:Mcbrarian, dsmith mcmaster.ca) is an academic health sciences librarian at McMaster University
  • Siraj Mithoowani
  • Teresa Chan
  • Catherine Tong
  • Ilana Bayer
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