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Vaccine Safety Edit-a-thon - June 12, 2021       @WikimediaDC

WHO's hq in Geneva

The World Health Organization has named vaccine hesitancy, or anti-vaccination, as one of the top ten threats to global health in 2019. At the same time, the spread of health-related misinformation has fueled concerns about the potential dangers or inefficacy of vaccines.

Wikipedia is an important resource for up-to-date, accurate vaccine information, and it is currently one of the most frequently visited sites for healthcare information worldwide. NewsQ’s KNoW Science initiative has partnered with the WHO’s Vaccine Safety Net and Wikimedia DC to help expand Wikipedia’s existing vaccine-related content.

As a part of these efforts KNoW Science, Wikimedia DC, and Wikimedia Mexico are organizing a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to evaluate and improve Wikimedia content about vaccines, including vaccine safety.

The event will be open to anyone interested in promoting accurate vaccine information online. Training will be provided -- so no experience is necessary to join the event!

When

Friday, June 12, 2021 11am–1:30pm ET; 10am Mexico City / Central time; 15:00 UTC

Register

Register via Eventbrite

Agenda

  • KNoW Science Overview
  • Wikimedia DC Introduction
  • Wikimedia Mexico Introduction
  • Vaccine Safety Introduction
  • Introduction to event page and editing training
  • Editing time

Please sign in

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1. Go to the Outreach Dashboard 2. Login

Agenda and notes

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Policies

Your first article

Tips

Wikimedia and other related projects

Tools, Resources

Medicine, health, and Wikimedia

Presentation

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Training slides, Vaccine safety English and Spanish edit-a--thon June 12, 2021

Suggested worklist

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View Spanish-laguage event page and work list

The PREVIOUS Outreach Dashboard from April; Please reserve the article you plan to edit. This will avoid cross-editing or two editors working on the same article at once.

Editors are not restricted to the vaccine-related content on this list. Feel free to edit other articles as well.

Low expertise

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Medium expertise

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High expertise

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Please find more general topics listed here or from the Listeria list here.

Related Categories: Each contains an extensive article list

Related WikiProjects to include on talk pages

Working with Spanish Wikipedia

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To translate from Spanish

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Pandemic on México/ Pandemia en México

Medical personal from México/Personal médico de México

Hospitals from México/ Hospitales de México

To edit in English

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To create in English and Spanish

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Pandemic on México/ Pandemia en México

Medical personal from México/Personal médico de México

Resource List

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Here is a LINK to reliable sources from organisations publishing on vaccine safety related topics, it includes reports, blog posts, databases, maps, news articles etc.

References from above

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  1. ^ Denise A. Smith. 2020. Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review. PLoS ONE 15(2): e0228786. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228786
  2. ^ Giovanni Colavizza. COVID-19 research in Wikipedia. Bioarxiv working paper. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.10.087643v3

Attendees

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