View source for Submissions:2021/Engaging subject-matter experts during a national emergency: Wiki Education and COVID-19

{{WCNA 2021 Session Submission
|theme=Global & Local, Relationship Building & Support, Depth & Breadth for Newer Editors
|type=Presentation
|abstract=In 2020 and early 2021, Wiki Education undertook a campaign to improve the quality of information related to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over several months, Wiki Education ran a series of courses affiliated with our Wikipedia Scholars & Scientists program. To our knowledge, this initiative was the first effort ever to engage subject-matter experts during a national emergency to systematically improve Wikipedia’s coverage of a topic crucial to the general public. In this presentation, we'll review what we learned about running multiple courses in the same topic area, how we engaged subject-matter experts to improve both local and global information about the pandemic, and how their specialized backgrounds helped improve Wikipedia's coverage of impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
|academic=No
|author=Jami Mathewson, Ian Ramjohn, Will Kent
|email=jami{{@}}wikiedu.org, ian{{@}}wikiedu.org, will{{@}}wikiedu.org
|username=Jami (Wiki Ed), Ian (Wiki Ed), Will (Wiki Ed)
|affiliates=Wiki Education
|time=30 minutes
|presented=No, but we published an evaluation report on Meta
|present-other=Probably not enough time in a lightning talk; possibly unconference
|status=Submit
}}