Health Information on Wikipedia: Can You Trust It?

Epstein, Helen-Ann Brown

doi:10.1080/15398285.2022.2069391

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“…The practices of checking and confirming the content accessed in Wikipedia, illustrate how participants "actively weave their own information web" and use this to establish trustworthiness of Wikipedia's health and medical article (Longo, et al, 2010). It has been suggested that Wikipedia users "should be made aware that the information found may not be accurate and easy to read" (Epstein, 2022). However, the public may have informal searching skills that allow them to discern whether they trust the information they find.…”

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“I’m comfortable with it”: User stories of health information on Wikipedia

Smith

2023

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Applying a critical-constructivist approach, 21 semi-structured interviews conducted from June to October 2021 were analyzed thematically. Qualitative analysis suggests that users reported that Wikipedia’s health content can facilitate personal agency, is familiar and convenient to access, and that individuals’ trust in Wikipedia is contextual, conditional, and framed by their personal experiences.

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“I’m comfortable with it”: User stories of health information on Wikipedia

Smith

2023

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Where experts and amateurs meet: the ideological hobby of medical volunteering on Wikipedia

Konieczny¹

2023

Wiki J Med

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The following paper advances our understanding of online volunteering in the medical context, through the study of Wikipedia volunteers who edit medical topics. It employs the Volunteer Functions Inventory (VFI) model to study volunteers' motivations through a survey carried out in 2021 (N=74). It highlights the importance of the non-traditional VFI dimensions of "fun" and "ideology" which have not been adequately discussed in the context of medical volunteering. The findings also show that Wikipedia volunteers who edit medical topics are older, more gender-balanced, and better educated than typical Wikipedia volunteers from a decade ago. Many are medical professionals, and their significant involvement helps to explain the above-average quality of Wikipedia medical topics. Conversely, the study reveals the need for more experts to engage with Wikipedia. Lack of volunteers, in particular, experts, and inadequate support from professional institutions, are identified as main reasons for problems in Wikipedia's quality.

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Health Information on Wikipedia: Can You Trust It?

Cited by 2 publications

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“I’m comfortable with it”: User stories of health information on Wikipedia

“I’m comfortable with it”: User stories of health information on Wikipedia

Where experts and amateurs meet: the ideological hobby of medical volunteering on Wikipedia

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