Page values for "Submissions:2021/Engaging subject-matter experts during a national emergency: Wiki Education and COVID-19"
"2021_submissions" values
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| title | String | Engaging subject-matter experts during a national emergency: Wiki Education and COVID-19 |
| status | String | Accepted |
| theme | String | Global & Local, Relationship Building & Support, Depth & Breadth for Newer Editors |
| type | String | Presentation |
| abstract | Wikitext | 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 | Boolean | No |
| author | String | Jami Mathewson, Ian Ramjohn, Will Kent |
| List of Email, delimiter: , | jami@wikiedu.org • ian@wikiedu.org • will@wikiedu.org | |
| username | String | Jami (Wiki Ed), Ian (Wiki Ed), Will (Wiki Ed) |
| affiliates | String | Wiki Education |
| time | String | 30 minutes |
| requests | Wikitext | |
| presented | Wikitext | No, but we published an evaluation report on Meta |