Hello all, Reminder that this very topical Research Showcase will be happening on Wednesday.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 12:26 PM Janna Layton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, July 15, at > 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC. > > Wikipedia is one of the most important online resources for health > information. This has been especially highlighted during the Covid-19 > pandemic: since the beginning of the year more than 5000 articles related > to Covid-19 have been created receiving more than 400M pageviews. > Therefore, for this month’s showcase our two invited speakers will help us > get a better understanding of the state of medical knowledge in Wikipedia. > In the first talk, Denise Smith will give an overview on how Wikipedia's > health content is used by different audiences (public, students, or > practitioners). In the second talk, Giovanni Colavizza will present results > on how editors on Wikipedia find, select, and integrate scientific > information on Covid-19 into Wikipedia articles. > > YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIV26lWrD9c > > As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You > can also watch our past research showcases here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase > > This month's presentations: > > Wikipedia for health information - Situating Wikipedia as a health > information resource > > By Denise Smith (McMaster University, Health Sciences Library & Western > University, Faculty of Information & Media Studies) > > Wikipedia is the most frequently accessed web site for health information, > but the various ways users engage with Wikipedia’s health content has not > been thoroughly investigated or reported. This talk will summarize the > findings of a comprehensive literature review published in February. It > explores all the contexts in which Wikipedia’s health content is used that > have been reported in academic literature. The talk will focus on the > findings reported in this paper, the potential impact of this study in > health and medical librarianship, the practice of medicine, and medical or > health education. > > > - > > D.A. Smith (2020). "Situating Wikipedia as a health information > resource in various contexts: A scoping review". PLoS ONE. > https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0228786 > > > > COVID-19 research in Wikipedia > > By Giovanni Colavizza (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) > > Wikipedia is one of the main sources of free knowledge on the Web. During > the first few months of the pandemic, over 4,500 new Wikipedia pages on > COVID-19 have been created and have accumulated close to 250M pageviews by > early April 2020.1 At the same time, an unprecedented amount of scientific > articles on COVID-19 and the ongoing pandemic have been published online. > Wikipedia’s contents are based on reliable sources, primarily scientific > literature. Given its public function, it is crucial for Wikipedia to rely > on representative and reliable scientific results, especially so in a time > of crisis. We assess the coverage of COVID-19-related research in Wikipedia > via citations. We find that Wikipedia editors are integrating new research > at an unprecedented fast pace. While doing so, they are able to provide a > largely representative coverage of COVID-19-related research. We show that > all the main topics discussed in this literature are proportionally > represented from Wikipedia, after accounting for article-level effects. We > further use regression analyses to model citations from Wikipedia and show > that, despite the pressure to keep up with novel results, Wikipedia editors > rely on literature which is highly cited, widely shared on social media, > and has been peer-reviewed. > > > - > > G. Colavizza (2020). "COVID-19 research in Wikipedia". bioRxiv. > https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.10.087643v2 > > > -- > Janna Layton (she/her) > Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > > -- > Janna Layton (she/her) > Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > -- Janna Layton (she/her) Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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