Wikipedia:Upstate April 2016

This is the event page for the Wikipedia editing presentation and event at Upstate Medical University.

Event details

• Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 2:30 p.m.
• 2231 Weiskotten Hall at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York
• contact Amy Slutzky, UPSTATE Health Sciences Library, for details at (315) 464-7091 slutzkyaupstate.edu
• Presentation by Lane Rasberry, user:bluerasberry, Wikipedian-in-Residence at Consumer Reports

Before class

1. Consider if you wish to participate in an optional-one hour Wikipedia editing workshop. If you do, prepare as follows -
2. Create a Wikipedia account
3. While logged into your Wikipedia account, click "Join event" below. This permits the organizers to know who attended.
4. Find a reliable source of information, like an academic paper, and choose a fact from that source that you would share on Wikipedia
5. Expect that during the event, you will take information from the academic article and add it to the Wikipedia article.

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Agenda

"Editing Wikipedia articles on medicine", a classroom handout

2:30-3 - Welcome, and presentation on Wikipedia

3-3:30 - Discussion and demos

3:30-4:30 - Wikipedia editathon!

4:30-4:45 - wrap up, until we meet again!

4:45 - goodbye!

The event will start with a presentation which gives the Wikipedia community perspective on the following:

1. To what extent does Wikipedia matter in health communication?
2. How does one edit Wikipedia?
3. What is Wikipedia's quality control system?

Following the presentation, anyone may ask any question about Wikipedia to get answers or demonstrations. Following this, it will be time for a Wikipedia "editathon", which is an event in which a group of people edit together. Desktop view, not mobile access, is preferred for this exercise, but come regardless. At the editathon, this is the goal:

1. Come to the event with some published source of good information
2. Identify a Wikipedia article where you think information from that source should go
3. In your own words, take information from your source and add it to the Wikipedia article
4. Cite your source. See referencing for beginners or better, learn at the event

Hopefully everyone at the event will add at least 1-3 sentences in the time we have. After making additions, since Wikipedia is public, participants will review the accuracy and quality of classmate's edits. As we leave, participants will be invited to check back on Wikipedia after some time (3-7 days) to see if there is any online community response to anyone's contributions.

Goals

• All participants will gain the ability to describe the nature of health information on Wikipedia, and have more insight into health information on the Internet
• Participants will get experience translating information from academic journals into layman health information
• The information submitted to Wikipedia will be read by the public. Wikipedia readers will be better informed based on this event's contributions.

A continuosly updated report presents the number of pageviews to the Wikipedia articles which participants edited. At any time after the event anyone may visit the tracking dashboard to check readership, a measurement of content added, and other statistics.

Other support

The presentation is provided by Consumer Reports. Other organizations supporting Wikipedia outreach to health classes in New York include the following:

• 
  Consumer Reports
• 
  Upstate Medical University
• 
  Choosing Wisely
• 
  Cochrane
• 
  Wiki Project Med
• 
  New York Academy of Sciences
• 
  Wikimedia New York City
• 
  Wiki Education Foundation
• 
  Docgraph

All of these organizations endorse this classroom outreach. Your facilitator, user:bluerasberry, does not represent any of them except Consumer Reports. The nature of the support is as follows -

• Consumer Reports sponsors the outreach and presentation.
• Upstate Medical University hosts the event and students and faculty are the participants.
• Choosing Wisely is the outreach health campaign on which this Wikipedia outreach program is based.
• Cochrane remains available to provide access to Cochrane publications or talk with Wikipedia contributors about using good sources.
• New York Academy of Sciences encourages universities in New York to contribute to Wikipedia.
• Wikimedia New York City is the local volunteer chapter of the Wikipedia community.
• Wiki Project Med is the international volunteer chapter of the Wikipedia community supporting the development of Wikipedia's medical coverage.
• Wiki Education Foundation provides support for professors in assignment design and students as they navigate editing Wikipedia for the first time, and software to report impact of Wikipedia editing by groups of students.
• DocGraph is providing analysis of Wikipedia use by medical students. Please consider opting in to participate.

Tools and support

• Amy Slutzky, Reference and Liaison Librarian, Health Sciences Library, Upstate Medical University, is available to assist event participants in finding library resources.
• WikiProject Medicine, Wikipedia's own community forum for developing Wikipedia's health content
• DOI Wikipedia reference generator, a simple tool for converting a DOI into a citation on Wikipedia
• The Wikipedia Adventure, an online training program
• The Wikipedia:Education program provides Wikipedia:Training/For students

Contact

For local Wikipedia support contact user:bluerasberry, lrasberryconsumer.org.