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An educator framework for organizing Wikipedia editathons for computational biology
Nelly Sélem-Mojica1, Tiago Lubiana2, Toni Hermoso Pulido3
1Centro de Ciencias Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia 58089, México.
Motivation:
Wikipedia is a vital open educational resource in computational biology; however, a significant knowledge gap exists between English and non-English Wikipedias. Reducing this knowledge gap via intensive editing events, or "editathons," would be beneficial in reducing language barriers that disadvantage learners whose native language is not English. Results: We present a framework to guide educators in organizing editathons for learners to improve and create relevant Wikipedia articles. As a case study, we present the results of an editathon held at the 2024 ISCB Latin America conference, in which ten new articles were created for the Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia. We also present a web tool, "compbio-on-wiki," which identifies relevant English Wikipedia articles missing in other languages. We demonstrate the value of editathons to expand the accessibility and visibility of computational biology content in multiple languages.
Availability And Implementation:
Source code for the compbio-on-wiki Toolforge site is available at: https://github.com/lubianat/compbio-on-wiki.
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