Wikipedia:McMaster University/Program for Faculty Development
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Date 1 | 2 Nov 2021 |
Time 1 | 3:30 - 5:00 PM EST |
Where: | Online |
Slides | [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vuak7yyywif_4QOkVogSsq7sZuK7Crihs4kqqJEo650/edit?usp=sharing Wikipedia Workshop Series (Program for Faculty Development, McMaster University, 2021) |
Date 3 | 16 Nov 2021 |
Time 3 | 3:30 - 5:00 PM EST |
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This Wikipedia Workshop Series is a private online Wikipedia event for the Program for Faculty Development at McMaster University. The series consists of one workshop a week for three weeks. Join this even to learn how to edit Wikipedia, how to create new articles, and how to provide learning opportunities of your learners and trainees using Wikipedia.
Create a Wikipedia user account
Program
1. Free does not mean poor: Improving health and medical information on the world’s largest encyclopedia
Have you read Wikipedia recently? Do your learners or trainees read Wikipedia? Do you want to disseminate your publications or the publications of your peers beyond your professional community? Wikipedia’s health and medical pages are accessed with more frequency than any other health information web site in the world, with disproportionate access from geographic areas where access to physicians, hospitals, or trusted government information is limited. If you have knowledge, you have knowledge to share. Join this workshop to learn how you can leverage your expertise to improve the world’s most popular source of health information.
Agenda
- Welcome
- Navigate to meetup page & join the Dashboard
Videos
- Students and universities have a role in public education
- People research Wikipedia
- Wikipedia for public health communication professionals
- Engaging the University Community with Wikipedia Curating and Creation
Adding a citation

- Create a Wikimedia account if you do not have one.
- Please sign in to the dashboard so that the organizer can find your account name and the article you edited
- Select an article from the list below or pick your own
- Find the [citation needed] tag on the article
- Use any appropriate resource to search for an retrieve a high-quality source that can be used to verify the sentence that is missing a citation
- Edit the article to add the citation
Articles with citation needed
Use the citation hunt tool or,
This list of selected articles with citation needed tags is current as of April 23, 2021. This list was derived from WikiProject Medicine's clean up list.
- Alcohol (drug)
- Assisted suicide
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder controversies
- Autism
- B vitamins
- Cancer stem cell
- Cholera
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- COVID-19 vaccine
- Lipoma
- Liposarcoma
- Electrocardiography
- Endometriosis
- Fever
- Food allergy
- Geriatrics
- Hair loss
- Health effects of tobacco
- Heart rate
- Hodgkin lymphoma
- Influenza A virus subtype H1N1
- Lead poisoning
- Lyme disease
- Magnetic resonance imaging
- Measles
- Mechanical ventilation
- Mercury poisoning
- Neoplasm
- Neurology
- Nocturnal enuresis
- Organ donation
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sinusitis
- Substance dependence
- Tetrahydrocannabinol
- Tianeptine
- Varicose veins
- Vasectomy
- Vitamin B12 deficiency anemia
Literature
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- Maggio, Lauren A.; Willinsky, John M.; Costello, Joseph A.; Skinner, Nadine A.; Martin, Paolo C.; Dawson, Jennifer E. (1 December 2020). "Integrating Wikipedia editing into health professions education: a curricular inventory and review of the literature". Perspectives on Medical Education. 9 (6): 333–342. doi:10.1007/s40037-020-00620-1.
- Smith, Denise A. (18 February 2020). "Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review". PLOS ONE. 15 (2): e0228786. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228786.
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: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - Azzam, Amin; Bresler, David; Leon, Armando; Maggio, Lauren; Whitaker, Evans; Heilman, James; Orlowitz, Jake; Swisher, Valerie; Rasberry, Lane; Otoide, Kingsley; Trotter, Fred; Ross, Will; McCue, Jack D. (February 2017). "Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia: Final-Year Medical Student Contributions to Wikipedia Articles for Academic Credit at One School". Academic Medicine. 92 (2): 194–200. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000001381.
- Murray, Heather; Walker, Melanie; Maggio, Lauren; Dawson, Jennifer (June 2018). "24 Wikipedia medical page editing as a platform to teach evidence-based medicine". Oral Sessions: A12.2–A13. doi:10.1136/bmjebm-2018-111024.24.
- Heilman, James M; West, Andrew G (4 March 2015). "Wikipedia and Medicine: Quantifying Readership, Editors, and the Significance of Natural Language". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 17 (3): e62. doi:10.2196/jmir.4069.
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Thanks
Developing Wikipedia is a collaborative effort. Thanks to everyone who contributes to the success of this and other Wikipedia programs in medicine. The nature of the support is as follows -
- The Canadian Health Libraries Association is hosting the event
- #1Lib1Ref is the campaign that encourages all librarians to add at least one citation to Wikipedia
Contacts
- Erin Johnson (user:erniee_jo, ejohns83
uwo.ca)) is acting head, Discovery, Description, & Metadata at Western Libraries
- Denise Smith (user:Mcbrarian, dsmith
mcmaster.ca) is an academic health sciences librarian at McMaster University