When and Where | |
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Date: | Tuesday, March 12, 2019 |
Time | 9-noon |
Venue | Touro College, School of Health Sciences |
Address | Concourse Level, Room 218, 320 West 31st Street, New York, NY 10001 |
slides | Touro College Wiki Editing Party |
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The event will start with a presentation which gives the Wikipedia community perspective on the following:
Following the presentation, anyone may ask any question about Wikipedia to get answers or demonstrations. Following this, it will be time for a Wikipedia "editathon", which is an event in which a group of people edit together. Desktop view, not mobile access, is preferred for this exercise, but come regardless. At the editathon, this is the goal:
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:
Here are some articles which are very popular, and which could include a physical therapy perspective, but which currently hardly mention physical therapy:
Development of these articles could mean either expanding or adding a section on the intersection of that topic and physical therapy.
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. Your facilitator, user:bluerasberry, does not represent any of them except Consumer Reports. The nature of the support is as follows -
For local Wikipedia support contact user:bluerasberry
When and Where | |
---|---|
Date: | Tuesday, March 12, 2019 |
Time | 9-noon |
Venue | Touro College, School of Health Sciences |
Address | Concourse Level, Room 218, 320 West 31st Street, New York, NY 10001 |
slides | Touro College Wiki Editing Party |
. |
The event will start with a presentation which gives the Wikipedia community perspective on the following:
Following the presentation, anyone may ask any question about Wikipedia to get answers or demonstrations. Following this, it will be time for a Wikipedia "editathon", which is an event in which a group of people edit together. Desktop view, not mobile access, is preferred for this exercise, but come regardless. At the editathon, this is the goal:
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:
Here are some articles which are very popular, and which could include a physical therapy perspective, but which currently hardly mention physical therapy:
Development of these articles could mean either expanding or adding a section on the intersection of that topic and physical therapy.
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. Your facilitator, user:bluerasberry, does not represent any of them except Consumer Reports. The nature of the support is as follows -
For local Wikipedia support contact user:bluerasberry