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UMMS Affiliation

Lamar Soutter Library; National Network of Libraries of Medicine, NER

Publication Date

2019-11-09

Document Type

Poster

Project Name

Collaboration and Innovation: NNLM’s Nationwide Online Social Justice - Health Equity Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

Contract Cycle

2016-2021

Disciplines

Health Communication | Health Sciences and Medical Librarianship | Health Services Administration | Public Health Education and Promotion

Abstract

There is a growing trend in libraries to engage their communities with information and open data by holding Wikipedia edit-a-thons. During these events, participants learn about this widely used online resource through hands-on editing of articles, including improving citations and adding new facts. The purpose of this poster is to report on the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) health equity focused online edit-a-thon. In Spring 2019, supporting text and citations were added to existing articles for a total of 134 edits made by 54 editors.The event utilized librarians’ research skills to make Wikipedia a better, more evidence based resource by using National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases to edit content and add citations.

Keywords

Citizen Science, community engagement, open science, Wikipedia, edit-a-thon

Rights and Permissions

Copyright The Author(s)

DOI of Published Version

10.13028/w2th-st88

Journal/Book/Conference Title

WikiConference North America 2019

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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