Wikimedia Workshop VCCA

• Workshop
• Wikipedia
• Wikidata

During the Wikimedia Workshop at the 2024 Virtual Conference on Computational Audiology, participants will get the chance to learn the basics of Wikipedia editing, make substantive changes to Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items within content on hearing, sound, acoustics, signal processing, artificial intelligence, big data, environmental noise and related topics.

The workshop will include practical editing examples and on-hand moments on Wikipedia and Wikidata, with a focus on improving topics in hearing and computational audiology.

Purpose

This workshop aims to briefly explore the use of Wikipedia and Wikidata to disseminate scientifically grounded information through an interactive Edit-a-Thon focused on hearing health and audiology-related topics.

More about the organization

Background

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Wikipedia and Wikidata are integral to the open knowledge ecosystem maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation. The core mission of these coordinated projects is to ensure that the sum of all possible human knowledge is openly accessible. These content platforms are collaboratively maintained by countless volunteers, who contribute by writing texts and curating data.

Wikipedia is the most-read general reference source on the internet. It is available in 336 languages, accessed by a global user base. Wikidata functions as an open database of structured and categorized data readable by both humans and machines, providing tools for knowledge curation.

Wiki4WorldHearingDay is an example of an activity involving students, researchers, audiologists, and patients around the world, editing Wikimedia projects to raise awareness and crowdsource knowledge about hearing health. These efforts have resulted in 18.1 million accesses to edited content related to hearing health and audiology on Wikipedia from 2022 to 2024.

Get started

1. Step 1: Create a Wikipedia account
2. Step 2: Sign up to the event
3. Step 3: Monitor activities and pageviews of your articles

Activities

	Improve Wikipedia articles	Help improve existing Wikipedia articles (a good place to start before writing a new article).	15 minutes
	Translate Wikipedia articles	Translate Wikipedia articles from one language to another	20 minutes
	Write new Wikipedia articles	Write a Wikipedia article which will be reviewed by experienced contributors before it is published.	30 minutes