Improving Wikipedia: educational opportunity and professional responsibility

Callis, Kristine L.; Christ, Lindsey R.; Resasco, Julian; Armitage, David; Ash, Jeremy D.; Caughlin, T. Trevor; Clemmensen, Sharon F.; Copeland, Stella M.; Fullman, Timothy J.; Lynch, Ryan L.; Olson, C. A.; Pruner, Raya; Vieira‐Neto, Ernane H. M.; West-Singh, Raneve; Bruna, Emilio M.

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.01.003

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“…A wide variety of Wikipedia assignments have been described: creating a new article, translating, copy editing, reviewing or adding references to an existing one (Konieczny 2007;Witzleb 2009) as well as monitoring how their own contribution was changed by other Wikipedia editors (Chandler & Gregory 2010). These assignments been reported for various domains: history (Chandler & Gregory 2010;Pollard 2008;Nix 2010), ecology (Callis et al 2009), law (Witzleb 2009) and chemistry (Moy et al 2010). In this section, we discuss studies where students have been organized to contribute to Wikipedia.…”

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The People’s Encyclopedia Under the Gaze of the Sages: A Systematic Review of Scholarly Research on Wikipedia

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Wikipedia has become one of the ten most visited sites on the Web, and the world's leading source of Web reference information. Its rapid success has inspired hundreds of scholars from various disciplines to study its content, communication and community dynamics from various perspectives. This article presents a systematic review of scholarly research on Wikipedia. We describe our detailed, rigorous methodology for identifying over 450 scholarly studies of Wikipedia. We present the WikiLit website (http://wikilit.referata.com), where most of the papers reviewed here are described in detail. In the major section of this article, we then categorize and summarize the studies. An appendix features an extensive list of resources useful for Wikipedia researchers.

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“…In a graduate seminar on plant-animal interactions, participants assessed the quality and content of ecology content on Wikipedia (Callis et al 2009). They found Wikipedia generally limited in depth and breadth and that it had too few citations.…”

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The People’s Encyclopedia Under the Gaze of the Sages: A Systematic Review of Scholarly Research on Wikipedia

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“…6 Eysenbach and Diepgen suggested that doctors, medical societies, and associations should critically appraise internet information and act as decentralized 'label services' to rate the value and trustworthiness of information found on the internet. 7 In particular, the molecular-biology scientific community has taken this opportunity and has so far incorporated several specially labeled molecular biology databases into Wikipedia e RNA WikiProject, WikiProteins, GeneWiki, and Proteopedia.…”

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Wikipedia and osteosarcoma: a trustworthy patients' information?

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The English version of the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has been recently reported to be the prominent source of online health information. However, there is little information concerning the quality of information found in Wikipedia. Therefore, we created a questionnaire asking for scope, completeness, and accuracy of information found on osteosarcoma. Three independent observers tested the English version of Wikipedia, as well as the patient version and the health professional version of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) website. Answers were verified with authoritative resources and international guidelines. The results of our study demonstrate that the quality of osteosarcomarelated information found in the English Wikipedia is good but inferior to the patient information provided by the NCI. Therefore, non-peer-reviewed commonly used websites offering health information, such as Wikipedia, should include links to more definitive sources, such as those maintained by the NCI and professional international organizations on healthcare treatments. Furthermore, frequent checks should make sure such external links are to the highest quality and to the bestmaintained aggregate sites on a given healthcare topic.

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“…Even junior physicians consult information provided on the Internet to reinforce the diagnosis and treatment decisions they make on a daily basis [11]. One example of how people use Internet sources to assess their illness is Wikipedia [12,13], which hosts a large quantity of information about medical data [14], even comparable with commercial encyclopedias [15]. The easy access and the easy-to-understand development of health topics are turning Wikipedia into the first-choice Internet source to find brief and clear definition of a specific term, including health terminologies [14].…”

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Evaluating the Social Media Performance of Hospitals in Spain: A Longitudinal and Comparative Study

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BackgroundSocial media is changing the way in which citizens and health professionals communicate. Previous studies have assessed the use of Health 2.0 by hospitals, showing clear evidence of growth in recent years. In order to understand if this happens in Spain, it is necessary to assess the performance of health care institutions on the Internet social media using quantitative indicators.ObjectivesThe study aimed to analyze how hospitals in Spain perform on the Internet and social media networks by determining quantitative indicators in 3 different dimensions: presence, use, and impact and assess these indicators on the 3 most commonly used social media - Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. Further, we aimed to find out if there was a difference between private and public hospitals in their use of the aforementioned social networks.MethodsThe evolution of presence, use, and impact metrics is studied over the period 2011- 2015. The population studied accounts for all the hospitals listed in the National Hospitals Catalog (NHC). The percentage of hospitals having Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube profiles has been used to show the presence and evolution of hospitals on social media during this time. Usage was assessed by analyzing the content published on each social network. Impact evaluation was measured by analyzing the trend of subscribers for each social network. Statistical analysis was performed using a lognormal transformation and also using a nonparametric distribution, with the aim of comparing t student and Wilcoxon independence tests for the observed variables.ResultsFrom the 787 hospitals identified, 69.9% (550/787) had an institutional webpage and 34.2% (269/787) had at least one profile in one of the social networks (Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube) in December 2015. Hospitals’ Internet presence has increased by more than 450.0% (787/172) and social media presence has increased ten times since 2011. Twitter is the preferred social network for public hospitals, whereas private hospitals showed better performance on Facebook and YouTube. The two-sided Wilcoxon test and t student test at a CI of 95% show that the use of Twitter distribution is higher (P<.001) for private and public hospitals in Spain, whereas other variables show a nonsignificant different distribution.ConclusionsThe Internet presence of Spanish hospitals is high; however, their presence on the 3 main social networks is still not as high compared to that of hospitals in the United States and Western Europe. Public hospitals are found to be more active on Twitter, whereas private hospitals show better performance on Facebook and YouTube. This study suggests that hospitals, both public and private, should devote more effort to and be more aware of social media, with a clear strategy as to how they can foment new relationships with patients and citizens.

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Improving Wikipedia: educational opportunity and professional responsibility

Cited by 39 publications

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The People’s Encyclopedia Under the Gaze of the Sages: A Systematic Review of Scholarly Research on Wikipedia

The People’s Encyclopedia Under the Gaze of the Sages: A Systematic Review of Scholarly Research on Wikipedia

Wikipedia and osteosarcoma: a trustworthy patients' information?

Evaluating the Social Media Performance of Hospitals in Spain: A Longitudinal and Comparative Study

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