Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Vaccine Safety Wikipedia Edit-a-thon June 12, 2021

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Vaccine Safety Edit-a-thon - June 12, 2021 @WikimediaDC

The World Health Organization has named vaccine hesitancy, or anti-vaccination, as one of the top ten threats to global health in 2019. At the same time, the spread of health-related misinformation has fueled concerns about the potential dangers or inefficacy of vaccines.

Wikipedia is an important resource for up-to-date, accurate vaccine information, and it is currently one of the most frequently visited sites for healthcare information worldwide. NewsQ’s KNoW Science initiative has partnered with the WHO’s Vaccine Safety Net and Wikimedia DC to help expand Wikipedia’s existing vaccine-related content.

As a part of these efforts KNoW Science, Wikimedia DC, and Wikimedia Mexico are organizing a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to evaluate and improve Wikimedia content about vaccines, including vaccine safety.

The event will be open to anyone interested in promoting accurate vaccine information online. Training will be provided -- so no experience is necessary to join the event!

When

Friday, June 12, 2021 11am–1:30pm ET; 10am Mexico City / Central time; 15:00 UTC

Register

Register via Eventbrite

Agenda

KNoW Science Overview
Wikimedia DC Introduction
Wikimedia Mexico Introduction
Vaccine Safety Introduction
Introduction to event page and editing training
Editing time

Please sign in

1. Go to the Outreach Dashboard 2. Login

Agenda and notes

Wikimedia policies, quick tips and related resources

Policies

Your first article

Tips

Wikimedia and other related projects

Tools, Resources

Medicine, health, and Wikimedia

m:Wiki Project Med
Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine
Review of use of Wikipedia by medical students, researchers, and practitioners.^[1]
Covid-19 research in Wikipedia^[2]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/covid19/data/

Presentation

Training slides, Vaccine safety English and Spanish edit-a--thon June 12, 2021

Suggested worklist

View Spanish-laguage event page and work list

The PREVIOUS Outreach Dashboard from April; Please reserve the article you plan to edit. This will avoid cross-editing or two editors working on the same article at once.

Editors are not restricted to the vaccine-related content on this list. Feel free to edit other articles as well.

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.
List of COVID-19 vaccine authorizations (add missing countries to the list)

Medium expertise

Wikipedia lacks information about the vaccination situation of many countries of the world. For more countries, resources and tips, please visit this page.
Fact-check and improve articles on COVID-19 vaccines
- Widely used: Oxford–AstraZeneca, Pfizer–BioNTech, Sputnik V, Sinopharm, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, CoronaVac
- Less widely used: Covaxin, Sputnik Light, Convidecia, Sinopharm–WIBP, EpiVacCorona, RBD-Dimer, CoviVac, QazCovid-in, Minhai
- Authorization pending: Novavax, Sanofi–GSK, CureVac, CoVLP, SOBERANA 02, Valneva, ZyCoV-D

High expertise

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)

Working with Spanish Wikipedia

To translate from Spanish

Pandemic on México/ Pandemia en México

Medical personal from México/Personal médico de México

Hospitals from México/ Hospitales de México

To edit in English

To create in English and Spanish

Pandemic on México/ Pandemia en México

Medical personal from México/Personal médico de México

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.

References from above

^ Denise A. Smith. 2020. Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review. PLoS ONE 15(2): e0228786. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228786
^ Giovanni Colavizza. COVID-19 research in Wikipedia. Bioarxiv working paper. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.10.087643v3

Attendees

econterms (talk) 16:44, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Denise A. Smith. 2020. Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review. PLoS ONE 15(2): e0228786. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228786

[2] Giovanni Colavizza. COVID-19 research in Wikipedia. Bioarxiv working paper. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.10.087643v3

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