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Wikipedia and Healthcare: effective uses, future directions. Introduction to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation projects, focusing on medical articles and projects.
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Wikipedia and healthcare:effective uses, future directions
Phoebe AyersUC Davis
Wikimedia Foundation
Outline
• Introductions• How Wikipedia works • Wikipedia and health• Discussion/Questions?
Taipei, Wikimania 2007
How Wikipedia Works
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all
knowledge.
- Wikimedia’s vision statement
inter-language links
Wikimedia is global
Wikimedia chapters, 2013 (dark blue = founded)
What is Wikimedia?12 projects
280 languages25 million Wikipedia articles
18 million media files• 100,000 active editors• 100s of local meetup groups• 39 local/national level chapters• 180 employees at the Wikimedia Foundation, San
Francisco• 1,130,000 individual financial donors (in 2011-12)• 500,000,000 readers/month
Wikimania 2005
[[user:Walkerma]]
Bangalore, 2010
Wikimania, Buenos Aires 2009
Wikimania, Haifa 2011
• Free [to use and reuse]• Volunteer-written• Supported by readers• Everyone can participate• No top down editorial control:• Community curated work
Overview
• Neutrality (NPOV)• Verifiability (references!)• Notability• Encyclopedic treatment• … and many, many style guidelines
Core editorial policies
Wikipedia editors
Becoming an editor
…saving an edit
History of an article
compareDate of edit
usernameTheir other contributions
Edit summary
Revision of an article – one “edit”
Evaluating an article
Wikipedia and health
From Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RedCrossNursen.jpg
• The 28,000 Wikipedia articles covered by WikiProject Medicine get over 2 million hits a month.– This includes topics like:
• Asthma• Diabetes mellitus• Gout• Malaria• Vaccination • Pharmaceutical drug• Palliative care
Some statistics
• “Studies have found that 70% of junior physicians use Wikipedia in a given week, while nearly 50% to 70% of practicing physicians use it as an information source in providing medical care.”
(from James Heilman et al, “Wikipedia: A Key Tool for Global Public Health Promotion”, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2011. http://www.jmir.org/2011/1/e14, Ref 34-36.)
Not just patients
Still lots to do
Red link = no article
Still lots to do
Improving existing articles
Finding articles with categories
Mission: To make clear, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date educational resources and information in the biomedical and related social sciences freely available to all people in the language of their choice.http://meta.wikimedia.org/WPMED
Wikipedia and education
Sample assignments
• Referencing and expanding articles• Copyediting articles• Creating technical illustrations or
videos• Translating articles• Analyzing articles, reflecting on
Wikipedia usage
Planning for the next 10 years
Thoughts?
Thank you
psayers@ucdavis.edu
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