When and Where | |
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Date: | Monday, December 9, 2019 |
Time | 10am |
Venue | Touro College School of Health Sciences |
Address | Bay Shore, New York |
slides | Wiki Editing @ Touro College |
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The event will start with a presentation which gives the Wikipedia community perspective on the following:
At the editing event these are the activities:
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.
After some months, the class will get a report on the number of pageviews to the Wikipedia articles which the class edited. At any time after the event anyone may visit the tracking dashboard to check readership, a measurement of content added, and other statistics.
The ideal Wikipedia article to edit in this project is has the following characteristics in this order of importance:
The University of Virginia is providing the presentation at this event. Other organizations supporting Wikipedia outreach to health classes in New York include the following:
All of these organizations endorse this classroom outreach. The nature of the support is as follows -
For local Wikipedia support contact user:bluerasberry
When and Where | |
---|---|
Date: | Monday, December 9, 2019 |
Time | 10am |
Venue | Touro College School of Health Sciences |
Address | Bay Shore, New York |
slides | Wiki Editing @ Touro College |
. |
The event will start with a presentation which gives the Wikipedia community perspective on the following:
At the editing event these are the activities:
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.
After some months, the class will get a report on the number of pageviews to the Wikipedia articles which the class edited. At any time after the event anyone may visit the tracking dashboard to check readership, a measurement of content added, and other statistics.
The ideal Wikipedia article to edit in this project is has the following characteristics in this order of importance:
The University of Virginia is providing the presentation at this event. Other organizations supporting Wikipedia outreach to health classes in New York include the following:
All of these organizations endorse this classroom outreach. The nature of the support is as follows -
For local Wikipedia support contact user:bluerasberry