Submissions:2021/Engaging subject-matter experts during a national emergency: Wiki Education and COVID-19
This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2021.
Title:
- Engaging subject-matter experts during a national emergency: Wiki Education and COVID-19
Theme:
- Global & Local, Relationship Building & Support, Depth & Breadth for Newer Editors
Type of session:
- 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 Peer Review option:
- No
Author name:
E-mail address:
- jami
wikiedu.org, ianwikiedu.org, willwikiedu.org
Wikimedia username:
- Jami (Wiki Ed), Ian (Wiki Ed), Will (Wiki Ed)
Affiliated organization(s):
- Wiki Education
Estimated time:
- 30 minutes
Special requests:
Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?:
- No, but we published an evaluation report on Meta
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)
- Probably not enough time in a lightning talk; possibly unconference