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The Promotion of Hearing Health through Wikipedia Campaigns: Article Quality and Reach Assessment

Alexandre Alberto Pascotto Montilha et al. Healthcare (Basel). 2023.

Abstract

This case study examined the feasibility, reach, and potential impact of using Wikipedia as a tool for hearing health promotion. Activities involved editing existing Portuguese-language Wikipedia hearing health articles, as well as translating English-language hearing health articles to Portuguese during the Wiki4WorldHearingDay2019 and Wiki4YearOfSound2020 online campaigns. The Wikipedia efforts that took place in Brazil were carried out by 10 volunteer undergraduate students in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Brazil. Among new and existing Wikipedia articles, the group edited 37 articles, which attracted more than 220,000 views during the set tracking period. Students were responsible for 60% of the Portuguese-language edits during the Wiki4WorldHearingDay2019 campaign and more than 90% of the Portuguese-language edits during the first half of the Wiki4YearOfSound2020 campaign. Moreover, the quality indexes for pages either created or edited were improved in all situations by registering an increase rate ranging from 33% to 100%. Wikipedia-centered activities expanded the availability of quality scientific content, written in plain language, to the public. Students worked together in order to select topics, assess existing information, validate it, create new content, and share information-steps that contributed to the mission of health promotion and knowledge dissemination for the benefit of society.

Keywords: audiology; crowdsourcing; educational technology; encyclopedia; health campaigns; health promotion.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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The ORES User Interface (UI) tool and the articlequality model. The tool is hosted at

https://ores.wikimedia.org/ui/

(accessed on 6 April 2023).

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This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. Authors conducted this study as part of their employment duties. No other funding was provided.

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