Submissions:2021/Vaccine Safety Edit-a-thon
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Title:
- Vaccine Safety Edit-a-thon
Theme:
- Global & Local, Other
Type of session:
- Workshop
Abstract:
During WikiConference North America, KNoW Science and Wikimedia DC would like to build on momentum from previous events to facilitate a Spanish and English Vaccine Safety Edit-a-thon. We hope to update our submission with support from Wikimedia Mexico as well.
This edit-a-thon will be the culmination of an event series which is aimed at improving vaccine safety information on different language Wikipedias. Our multilingual events have brought together Wikipedians and health/science subject matter experts who are interested in creating, editing and improving citations for vaccine-related task lists being compiled through the Vaccine Safety Project created by Netha Hussain.
Our kick-off event in August 2020 was organized with support from the World Health Organization’s Vaccine Safety Net (VSN), the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) and Wikimedia DC. Subsequent events were organized with Wikimedia Mexico and Malayalam Wikipedia in English, Spanish and Malayalam.
Please see the following links for more information about our initiative and past events:
KNoW Science: https://newsq.net/activities/know-science-vaccine-safety-edit-a-thon-series/
Vaccine Safety Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vaccine_safety
Previous Vaccine Safety Edit-a-thons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Vaccine_Safety_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_June_12,_2021
Academic Peer Review option:
- No
Author name:
E-mail address:
- andrea
hackshackers.com
Wikimedia username:
- BackFa
Affiliated organization(s):
- KNoW Science - NewsQ
Estimated time:
- 1.5 hours
Special requests:
Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?:
- Yes,
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!
Early notes: Vaccine editathon along the lines of a series like this one: w:Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Vaccine_Safety_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_June_12,_2021. We'll have WHO people, KnowScience people, and ... We will work in English and Spanish, in a couple of zoom breakout rooms. We'll offer training if needed.