Wikipedia:WikiProject Columbia University/SIPA meetup April 2017

The School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University is hosting a private Wikipedia meetup for friends of the Wiki loves the Dominican Republic project. Only invited persons may attend.

Event details

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Columbia School of International and Public Affairs

• Tuesday, 5 April, 2017, 4-6pm
• School of International and Public Affairs, 118th and Amsterdam, 8th floor room 823

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Results from Dominican Republic visit

Anelsona, Jes2336, Lh2814, Marielavzla, Mgonzalezmillan and Vivavariola visited the Dominican Republic to share Internet-in-a-Box devices preloaded with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/App article set presented as Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline. They were there for about 10 days in March. Among other findings, they reported that among a group of 30 medical students, all but 3 of them were able to look up offline Wikipedia articles through the offline wifi connection on the device with the phones in their pockets. The students used English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole content. The Columbia students observed a case in which one student explained the device to another who had not heard of it, and through this peer-to-peer explanation, the newer student was able to access the offline articles.

Adam Holt, Internet-in-a-Box developer and Lane Rasberry, bluerasberry joined along with some administrators from the school department.

A more complete report is forthcoming.

Other support

The presentation is provided by Consumer Reports. Organizations supporting Wikipedia outreach to health classes in New York include the following:

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  Consumer Reports
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  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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  Cochrane
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  Wiki Project Med
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  Wikimedia New York City
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  Wiki Education Foundation

All of these organizations endorse this classroom outreach. Your facilitator, user:bluerasberry, does not represent any of them except Consumer Reports. The nature of the support is as follows -

• Consumer Reports sponsors the outreach and presentation.
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is providing review of medical information and many other types of support in this project.
• Choosing Wisely is the outreach health campaign on which this Wikipedia outreach program is based.
• Cochrane remains available to provide access to Cochrane publications or talk with Wikipedia contributors about using good sources.
• Wikimedia New York City is the local volunteer chapter of the Wikipedia community.
• Wiki Project Med is the international volunteer chapter of the Wikipedia community supporting the development of Wikipedia's medical coverage.
• Wiki Education Foundation provides support for professors in assignment design and students as they navigate editing Wikipedia for the first time, and software to report impact of Wikipedia editing by groups of students.
• DocGraph is providing analysis of Wikipedia use by medical students. Please consider opting in to participate.

Tools and support

• WikiProject Medicine, Wikipedia's own community forum for developing Wikipedia's health content
• DOI Wikipedia reference generator, a simple tool for converting a DOI into a citation on Wikipedia
• The Wikipedia Adventure, an online training program
• The Wikipedia:Education program provides Wikipedia:Training/For students

Contact

For local Wikipedia support contact user:bluerasberry, lrasberryconsumer.org.