The VMED COVID-19 Initiative at the University of Virginia is hosting Intro to Wikipedia's medical content for med students, a presentation of Wikipedia's place in the COVID-19 media environment. Wikipedia is a highly consulted source of information on all sorts of topics including medical topics. Attendees of this event will learn how Wikipedia works and how medical students can edit Wikipedia articles to improve global access to information.
No preparation or prior Wikipedia experience required!
This talk and all attendee participation will be recorded and available here after the event.
Wikimedia Medicine is volunteer community organization which is the center of Wikipedia medical content development
Cochrane remains available to provide access to Cochrane publications or talk with Wikipedia contributors about using good sources.
Wiki Education Foundation sponsors the infrastructure which assists academic development of Wikipedia, including the metrics tracking profiled in this talk.
Wikimedia New York City supports medical content development including many featured projects in this talk