Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Vaccine Safety on Wikipedia VSN Cafe

VSN Cafe: Vaccine Safety on Wikipedia - November 5, 2020       @WikimediaDC

WHO's hq in Geneva

To help improve the quality and quantity of vaccine safety related content on Wikipedia, Wikimedia DC and NewsQ in partnership with the VSN, organized a pilot edit-a-thon on 28 August. The 3 hour session included training on how to navigate the editing platform, tips on making your first edits and breakout sessions with experienced wiki-editors, healthcare professionals and communicators to improve vaccine safety content on Wikipedia.

In this café session we will have Ariel Cetrone from Wikimedia DC present how to navigate Wikipedia, make your first edits and we will discuss how VSN members can contribute to the Wikipedia community to ensure reliable information is being created.

See pilot program outcomes.

When

Thursday, November 5, 2020 10:30am–11:30pm ET

Agenda

Welcome

KNoW Science Introduction

Wikipedia Editing Training

Editing

Discussion

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Wikimedia policies, quick tips and related resources

Policies

• Wikimedia DC's Safe Space Policy
• Wikipedia:Five pillars
• Wikipedia:Core content policies
• Wikipedia:General notability guideline
• Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
• Wikipedia:No original research (Examples of Original Research)
• Wikipedia:Citing sources
• Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources
• Wikipedia: Quality control
• Wikipedia: Patrols
• Wikipedia:Admin

Your first article

• Help:Getting started
• Wikipedia:Your first article
• Help:Referencing for beginners

Tips

• Creating Redirects with Visual Editor
• Creating Redirector with Source Editor
• Using categories
• Cheatsheet for Wiki markup
• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules
• Wikicommons
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style

Wikimedia and other related projects

• Wikidata
• Wiki Education Foundation
• Covid-oriented ediathon on Sept 6

Tools, Resources

• Track Wikipedia Page Views
• Wikimedia Statistics
• Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Medicine, health, and Wikimedia

• m:Wiki Project Med
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine
• Review of use of Wikipedia by medical students, researchers, and practitioners.
• Covid-19 research in Wikipedia
• https://wikimediafoundation.org/covid19/data/

Suggested worklist

Please use this Etherpad document to share what you are currently editing. This will help to prevent cross-editing (two more more editors working on the same article simultaneously). Cross-editing can result in the loss of your edits.

Drafts

• Draft:Breast cancer vaccine
• Draft:Vaccination in Taiwan
• Vaccination in South Africa

Low expertise

• Vaccine Safety Net
• Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety
• National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (Australia)
• Croatian Institute of Public Health
• Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe
• Ministry of Health (Kingdom of Bahrain)
• Saudi Food and Drug Authority
• Public Health Institute of Chile
• National Public Health Institute (Hungary)

More organizations are listed here. Here is a sample article on GAVI that can be used for inspiration.

Medium expertise

Wikipedia lacks information about the vaccination situation of many countries of the world.

• Vaccination in Canada
• Vaccination in Brazil
• Vaccination in Sweden
• Vaccination in Poland
• Vaccination in Taiwan
• Vaccination in Qatar
• Vaccination in Singapore
• Vaccination in Bangladesh
• Vaccination in New Zealand
• Vaccination in South Africa
• Vaccination in Nigeria

For more countries, resources and tips, please visit this page.

High expertise

• Travel-related vaccination
• Vaccine storage
• List of vaccine candidates against COVID-19
• World Health Organization's response to poliomyelitis
• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on immunization (cf. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on other health issues § Childhood vaccinations)
• Vaccine reminder systems
• Vaccination of immunocompromised persons
• Breast cancer vaccination
• Nasal vaccine

Please find more general topics listed here or from the Listeria list here.

Related Categories: Each contains an extensive article list

• Category:Vaccination
• Category:Vaccine controversies
• Category:Drug discovery
• Anything associated with Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine

Related WikiProjects to include on talk pages

• WP:Medicine, WP:Pharmacology, WP:Skepticism (the last for pseudoscience)

Resource List

Here is a LINK to reliable sources from organisations publishing on vaccine safety related topics, it includes reports, blog posts, databases, maps, news articles etc.

Attendees

• Connieatwork (talk) 13:47, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
• econterms (talk) 15:48, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

• Rosiestep (talk) 15:57, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

• Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 15:57, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

• VSNTeam (talk) 15:57, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

• Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 15:57, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

• VSNTeam (talk) 15:57, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

• BackFa (talk) 15:58, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

• YvMorrissey (talk) 15:59, 5 November 2020 (UTC)