Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Vaccine Safety on Wikipedia VSN Cafe

WMDC-VSN Cafe

VSN Cafe: Vaccine Safety on Wikipedia - November 5, 2020 @WikimediaDC

To help improve the quality and quantity of vaccine safety related content on Wikipedia, Wikimedia DC and NewsQ in partnership with the VSN, organized a pilot edit-a-thon on 28 August. The 3 hour session included training on how to navigate the editing platform, tips on making your first edits and breakout sessions with experienced wiki-editors, healthcare professionals and communicators to improve vaccine safety content on Wikipedia.

In this café session we will have Ariel Cetrone from Wikimedia DC present how to navigate Wikipedia, make your first edits and we will discuss how VSN members can contribute to the Wikipedia community to ensure reliable information is being created.

See pilot program outcomes. ^{[dead link‍]}

When

Thursday, November 5, 2020 10:30am–11:30pm ET

Agenda

Welcome

KNoW Science Introduction

Wikipedia Editing Training

Editing

Discussion

Please sign in

This is for use on the day of the event.

1) Click 'Sign in' here.

2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Save changes'. Your username will then be added to the list of attendees.

Wikimedia policies, quick tips and related resources

Policies

Your first article

Tips

Wikimedia and other related projects

Tools, Resources

Medicine, health, and Wikimedia

m:Wiki Project Med
Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine
Review of use of Wikipedia by medical students, researchers, and practitioners.^[1]
Covid-19 research in Wikipedia^[2]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/covid19/data/

Presentation

Suggested worklist

Please use this Etherpad document to share what you are currently editing. This will help to prevent cross-editing (two more more editors working on the same article simultaneously). Cross-editing can result in the loss of your edits.

Drafts

Low expertise

More organizations are listed here. Here is a sample article on GAVI that can be used for inspiration.

Medium expertise

Wikipedia lacks information about the vaccination situation of many countries of the world.

For more countries, resources and tips, please visit this page.

High expertise

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

Related Categories: Each contains an extensive article list

Category:Vaccination
Category:Vaccine controversies
Category:Drug discovery
Anything associated with Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine

Related WikiProjects to include on talk pages

WP:Medicine, WP:Pharmacology, WP:Skepticism (the last for pseudoscience)

Resource List

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

^ 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
^ Giovanni Colavizza. COVID-19 research in Wikipedia. Bioarxiv working paper. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.10.087643v3