Touro College Wiki Editing Party
Lane Rasberry
Wikimedian in Residence
Data Science Institute at the University of Virginia
user:bluerasberry
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Agenda
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Wiki
is
media reach
Care because Wiki is popular
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Wiki is competitive
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Wiki gets more medical traffic than any other identified source
James Heilman, Andrew G. West. "Wikipedia and medicine: quantifying readership, editors, and the significance of natural language". Journal of Medicine Internet Research, March 2015.
Communication metrics
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~40k wiki articles,
2 billion hits
in each of 2017 and 2018
Off scale of traditional media
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3.5 million paid subscriptions and… 130 million monthly readers…
Relative coverage of English Wikipedia
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Touro College, 2018
92 Touro students and faculty edited 39 Wikipedia articles adding 16,000 words to them. Since each editing intervention, humans have viewed those articles 4.3 million times."
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Post content, get metrics
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likes
tweets
Wiki views
Metrics for item
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Wiki article for CT scan
Wiki review interface
Before
After
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Linked Open Data from wiki
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How to edit wiki
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Standard wiki editing
Summarize your publications in wiki, cite, track audience metrics
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Choose the visual editor
code editor
switch to
visual editor
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"Cite" button at top
top of edit bar
accepts PMID, etc
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Optional: ask for feedback
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Thanks!
Lane Rasberry, rasberry@virginia.edu
start by going to wiki and searching for WP:Touro
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Wikidata showcase
Translation for humans and bots
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Profile people, topics, institutes
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Show hospitals
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Regions vary by coverage
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