Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Virginia/Introductions
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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
[edit]- 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
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Disaster management
- d:Wikidata:WikiProject United Nations
- d:Wikidata:WikiProject Humanitarian Wikidata
- meta:Wikimedians for Sustainable Development
Support
[edit]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
[edit]- Lane Rasberry (user:bluerasberry)