User:Mcbrarian
| This user is an instructor for the course Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/McMaster_University/HTHSCI_3E03_(Fall_2023). |
| This user is an instructor for the course Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/McMaster_University/HTHSCI_3E03_(Fall_2022). |
| This user is an instructor for the course Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/McMaster_University/HTHSCI_3E03_(Fall_2021). |
| This user is an instructor for the course Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/McMaster_University/HTHSCI_3E03_(F-2020). |
Introduction
[edit]I am an academic librarian and I research Wikipedia and consumer health information behaviour.
Current work
[edit]- I am a PhD student in Canada. Currently working on a dissertation proposal. My research interest is consumer health information behaviour and user engagement with Wikipedia's health information.
Past work
[edit]- Wikipedia and consumer health: A research project that explores how Wikipedia users engage with its health and medical content. This project received a rapid grant from WMF in June 2021 to fund participant stipends and the purchase of qualitative analysis software.
- I taught a course in the Bachelor of Health Sciences program at McMaster University that requires students to edit Wikipedia. Dashboards for each iteration of the course are below:
- Collaboration with McMaster University's Institute for Pain Research & Care:
- Binge eating disorder
- Purging disorder
- Indigenous health project with Jwabba (BHSc, 2021)
- Women's health project with Sahrishmasood (BHSc, 2022)
- In Summer 2021 I began updating articles on Wikipedia about Canadian cities by adding an indigenous land acknowledgment or improving the indigenous history content already present. This work is presently on hold.
- Supervision of two undergraduate honours students in the Bachelor of Health Sciences who requested to edit Wikipedia
Research interests and academics
[edit]- I research Wikipedia as a health information resource and health information behaviour
- I am (slowly) working towards becoming a more active editor on Wikipedia and Wikidata making any contributions of value that fall within my skill set or expertise
- Feel free to ask me about my research interests or for comment on qualitiative research methods, systematic reviews, health librarianship and information/digital literacy
Publications related to Wikipedia's health content
[edit]2020
[edit]2021
[edit]2022
[edit]2023
[edit]2024
[edit]2025
[edit]- Engaging with Wikipedia's health content[7]
- Les savoirs publics lors de l’infodémie COVID-19[8]
- Public knowledge during the COVID-19 infodemic: Health literacy and the effect of Wikipedia. In The Wikimedia Movement in Canada: Communities, Institutions, Culture.[9]
2026
[edit]- Wikipedia & Open Pedagogy (presentation)
- Canadian Post-Secondary Sector Wikipedians (in progress)
- Constructing Authority in Wikipedia's Health & Medical Content (PhD Thesis - In progress)
Past Events
[edit]- Wikipedia:Western New York Library Resources Council/February 2017 - Participant
- Wikipedia:McMaster University/Health and Aging 2017 - Workshop Lead
- Wikipedia:McMaster University/Canadian Conference on Medical Education 2021 - Workshop Lead
- Wikipedia:McMaster University/Canadian Health Libraries Association Conference 2021 - Workshop Lead
- Wikipedia:McMaster University/Program for Faculty Development - Event Lead
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Authority control
[edit]Authority control databases – Denise A. Smith | |
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- ↑ Smith, Denise A. (2020). "Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review". PloS One. 15 (2): e0228786. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228786. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 7028268. PMID 32069322.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ↑ Smith, Denise A. (2021). "Wikipedia: An unexplored resource for understanding consumer health information behaviour in library and information science scholarship". Journal of Documentation. 78 (3). doi:10.1108/JD-03-2021-0049.
- ↑ Smith, Denise A. (2023-04-03). "It's Time to Recognize Wikipedia as a Health Information Resource". Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 27 (2): 210–220. doi:10.1080/15398285.2023.2211498. ISSN 1539-8285.
- ↑ Smith, Denise A. (2023-08-12). ""I'm comfortable with it": User stories of health information on Wikipedia". First Monday. doi:10.5210/fm.v28i8.12897. ISSN 1396-0466.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ↑ Smith, Denise (2023). "Leveraging Wikipedia in undergraduate health sciences education: a key tool for information literacy and knowledge translation". The Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association. 44 (3): 79–84. doi:10.29173/jchla29688. ISSN 1708-6892. PMC 11081111. PMID 38737529.
- ↑ Smith, Denise; McKinnell, Jennifer; Young, Jack (2024-04-01). "Citations in Wikipedia for understanding research reach". Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA. 112 (2): 88–94. doi:10.5195/jmla.2024.1730. ISSN 1558-9439. PMC 11305477. PMID 39119167.
- ↑ Smith, Denise (2025-03-31), "Engaging with Wikipedia's health content", Le mouvement Wikimédia au Canada, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, ISBN 978-2-7606-5109-8, retrieved 2025-09-16
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link) - ↑ Smith, Denise (2025-03-31), "Les savoirs publics lors de l'infodémie COVID-19", Le mouvement Wikimédia au Canada (in French), Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, ISBN 978-2-7606-5109-8, retrieved 2025-09-16
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link) - ↑ Lapointe, Jean-Michel; Martel, Marie D., eds. (2026-04-28). The Wikimedia Movement in Canada. Athabasca University Press. doi:10.15215/aupress/9781771994521.01. ISBN 978-1-77199-453-8.
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