Hi all, this will be starting in about 15 minutes. On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 2:20 PM Janna Layton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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/> > -- Janna Layton (she/her) Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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