Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Virginia/Introductions

Introduction to Wikipedia's Information
Event details
Date:	Saturday 22 February 2020
Where:	National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Introductions to Wikipedia Medical Information and Climate information are talks at MisinfoCon 2020. Join Lane Rasberry, Wikimedian in Residence at the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia, for a chat about Wikipedia's coverage of medical and climate change topics, why this matters, how you can participate, and what interesting projects others are doing.

Introduction to Wikipedia's Medical Information slides

Orientation to Wikipedia and Climate Change

Further consideration

Wikipedia and Credibility plate

for health

health information on Wikipedia profile in Scholia
WikiProject Medicine on English Wikipedia
Smith, Denise A.; Triberti, Stefano (18 February 2020). "Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review". PLOS ONE. 15 (2): e0228786. Bibcode:2020PLoSO..1528786S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228786. PMC 7028268. PMID 32069322.

for climate change

Support

Wikipedia community organizations contributing to the success of and fun of this presentation include the following:

Wikimedia Medicine is volunteer community organization which is the center of Wikipedia medical content development
Wikimedia D.C. is the local Wikimedia volunteer chapter whose members organized this event
New England Wikimedians organize climate change wiki events
Wikimedia New York City supports medical content development including many featured projects in this talk
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development is the primary wiki community addressing climate change
Wiki Education Foundation sponsors the infrastructure which assists academic development of Wikipedia, including the metrics tracking profiled in this talk.
University of Virginia sponsored speaker Lane Rasberry in presenting

Contact

Lane Rasberry (user:bluerasberry)