In the Touro College Physical Therapy Wiki Editing Party students will share information from their studies in Wikipedia articles! Learn the material by teaching it through publication in Wikipedia! Share the information with your community and the broader online world! Represent physical therapy in health publications! Have fun!
2021 is the fifth anniversary of Touro classroom Wikipedia editing, also marking the longest running Wikipedia classroom editing program in health. Let's do it!
While logged into your Wikipedia account register for this course. If prompted, click "join course". This permits identification of your Wikipedia edits.
For your topic, read both the Wikipedia article and the academic article on that topic. Deep familiarity is not required, especially of the Wikipedia article.
Expect that during the event, you will take information from the academic article and add it to the Wikipedia article.
The event will start with a presentation which gives the Wikipedia community perspective on the following:
To what extent does Wikipedia matter in health communication?
How does one edit Wikipedia?
What is Wikipedia's quality control system?
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:
Come to the event with some published source of good information
Identify a Wikipedia article where you think information from that source should go
In your own words, take information from your source and add it to the Wikipedia article
Cite your source.
Advance training for Wikipedia is not required but available if you want the online tutorial
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.
Participants will get experience translating information from academic journals into layman health information
The information submitted to Wikipedia will be read by the public. Wikipedia readers will be better informed based on this event'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 University of Virginia is providing the presentation at this event. Other organizations supporting Wikipedia outreach to health classes in New York include the following: