Submissions:2019/Wiki medicine meetup

This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2019.

Etherpad

Title:

Wiki medicine meetup

Theme:

Reliability of Information

Type of session:

Round Table

Abstract:

This event is a meetup for discussing projects for medical and health themed content development.

This meetup will start by introducing Wikimedia Medicine, the international organization advocating for medical content development in the Wikimedia space. The event starts with everyone sharing their projects then attendees collectively decide which sorts of projects to discuss further. We use shared note-taking to record positions, then publish those thoughts to wiki to advance the conversation.

Anyone can add potential topics for discussion. Here are some ongoing projects which we might choose to discuss at this event:

• addressing alternative medicine, quackery, and corporate propaganda
• outreach to medical schools
• medical translation and offline content distribution
• ingesting medical data for Wikidata and Wikipedia
• administration of Wikimedia Medicine as an organization and sharing resources

Academic Peer Review option:

No

Author name:

Lane Rasberry

E-mail address:

lanebluerasberry.com

Wikimedia username:

bluerasberry

Affiliated organization(s):

Wikimedia Medicine

Estimated time:

45 minutes

Preferred room size:

30

Special requests:

Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?:

yes many Wikimedia events

If your submission is not accepted, would you be open to presenting your topic in another part of the program? (e.g. lightning talk or unconference session)

yes