Episode 02 - Meta-Research Citation needed? Wikipedia and the COVID-19 pandemic
Preprints in Motion
English - June 16, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 45.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLife Sciences Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Join us as we learn why referencing Wikipedia might not be such a bad idea. We speak to Omer Benjakob @omerbenj, Jonathan Sobel @JonathanSobel1 & Rona Aviram @rona_av who have been investigating the scientific backbone of Wikipedia pages and how referencing on Wikipedia has changed over the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss how Wikipedia manages to reliably keep up to date with a constantly evolving topic, could this be applied to a social media format to prevent disinformation and could Wikipedia be a great way to engage the general population in science?
Read the full preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.01.433379v2
Other link:
Wikipedia is not a newspaper
This episode was produced by Emma Wilson and edited by John D Howard.
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