Edit 2018/Wiki Education in physical therapy at Touro College: Submissions:2019/“Wikipedians are born, not made” – applying the learnings from a 10-year-old research paper after all

Title

Wiki Education in physical therapy at Touro College

Theme (optional)

Relationship Building & Support

Academic Peer Review option

yes

Type of submission

presentation

Author

Shira Weiner, Jill Horbacewicz, Lane Rasberry

E-mail address

shira.weiner4touro.edu

Wikimedia username

for Lane - en:user:bluerasberry

Affiliation(s) (optional)

Touro College

Abstract

This talk will present an upcoming article, "A Case for improving the quality of health information on Wikipedia", published based on outcomes from series of classroom Wikipedia editing events documented at en:wp:Touro.

Wikipedia is a popular source of health information. Anyone may edit Wikipedia. Annually from 2016-18 as part of a school program three classes of physical therapy students at Touro College edited Wikipedia articles in the scope of their studies. Wikipedia's analytics tools give insight into outcomes by reporting pageviews of edited articles and editorial response to student contributions. The authors report that publishing in Wikipedia is useful as a learning exercise for students and a strategy for sharing general reference information to a large and relevant audience at low cost.

Beyond typical classroom presentations this talk will report how it measured the persistence of student edit contributions to find that all student contributions passed review and remained in Wikipedia.

Length of presentation

30 minutes

Special requests

projector

Preferred room size

25

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

No, but this will be presented again at the 2019 American Physical Therapy Association conference

If you will be incorporating a slidedeck during your presentation, do you agree to upload it to Commons before your session, with a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, including suitable attribution in the slidedeck for any images used?

yes

Will you attend WikiConference North America if your submission is not accepted?

yes

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1. Mozucat (talk) 20:15, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
2. Samantha (Wiki Education) (talk) 17:08, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
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