My name is Lane Rasberry. I edited Wikipedia for the first time in 2004 and have been editing regularly since 2008. I think that Wikipedia is a great way to share information on all topics, including health care, consumer rights issues, and science. The best way to learn about editing Wikipedia is to talk with other people about it. Anyone who wants to talk with me canpost to my Wikipedia talk pageoremail meto make an appointment for a phone or video chat.
Everyone who has a stake in community education should be supportive of Wikipedia editors. Since Wikipedia is the world's most popular source of health information for most topics in health, it is the particular responsibility of health educators to consider the influence and impact of Wikipedia in their fields of expertise and to recognize that they must acknowledge and respond to Wikipedia as a communication channel in some way if they are to are to be effective in outreach. Just as Wikipedia is popular among people seeking health information, it influences thought on every topic for which people seek information.
Lane Rasberry is Wikimedian-in-residence at the School of Data Science at theUniversity of Virginia.In this role Lane seeks to support students, faculty, and staff at the university in sharing information in Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other Wikimedia projects. In this way people at the university use Wikipedia to publish to a large audience including students, researchers, journalists, and anyone else doing basic research on a topic.
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Blackwell, Lindsay; Dimond, Jill; Schoenebeck, Sarita; Lampe, Cliff (6 December 2017). "Classification and Its Consequences for Online Harassment: Design Insights from HeartMob".Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.1(CSCW): 1–19.doi:10.1145/3134659.
Reisinger, Joan Hebert, Joan Herbert (2010),Let your voice be heard: A Practical Theology Dialogue on the Margins of the Catholic Church,Florida: St. Thomas University
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Morata, Thais C.; Zucki, Fernanda; Arrigo, Adriano Jorge; Cruz, Priscila Carvalho; Gong, Wei; Matos, Hector Gabriel Corrale de; Montilha, Alexandre Alberto Pascotto; Peschanski, João Alexandre; Cardoso, Maria Julia; Lacerda, Adriana Bender Moreira; Berberian, Ana Paula; Araujo, Eliene Silva; Luders, Débora; Duarte, Josilene Luciene; Jacob, Regina Tangerino de Souza; Chadha, Shelly; Mietchen, Daniel; Rasberry, Lane; Alvarenga, Katia de Freitas; Jacob, Lilian Cassia Bornia (30 September 2024). "Strategies for crowdsourcing hearing health information: a comparative study of educational programs and volunteer-based campaigns on Wikimedia".BMC Public Health.24(1).doi:10.1186/s12889-024-20105-8.{{cite journal}}:CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
Rasberry, Lane; Mietchen, Daniel (1 July 2021). "Wikipedia for multilingual COVID-19 vaccine education at scale".Research Ideas and Outcomes.7:e70042.doi:10.3897/rio.7.e70042.{{cite journal}}:CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
Mietchen, Daniel; Rasberry, Lane; Morata, Thais; Sadowski, John; Novakovich, Jeanette; Heilman, James (16 June 2021). "Developing a scalable framework for partnerships between health agencies and the Wikimedia ecosystem".Research Ideas and Outcomes.7:e68121.doi:10.3897/rio.7.e68121.{{cite journal}}:CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
Rasberry, Lane; Mietchen, Daniel (25 March 2021). "FAIR and open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata and Wikipedia".Research Ideas and Outcomes.7:e66490.doi:10.3897/rio.7.e66490.{{cite journal}}:CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
Bourne, Philip; Butler, Brandon; Rasberry, Lane; Mietchen, Daniel; Clark, Timothy; Basit, Nada; Zhang, Aidong; Wright, Brian; Van Horn, John; Kropko, Jonathan; Scholz, Claudia (3 February 2021). "UVA School of Data Science Open Access Guidelines and Recommendations".Libra Open.doi:10.18130/tzfc-ec92.
Rasberry, Lane; Willighagen, Egon; Nielsen, Finn; Mietchen, Daniel (2 May 2019). "Robustifying Scholia: paving the way for knowledge discovery and research assessment through Wikidata".Research Ideas and Outcomes.5.doi:10.3897/rio.5.e35820.{{cite journal}}:CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
Weiner, Shira Schecter; Horbacewicz, Jill; Rasberry, Lane; Bensinger-Brody, Yocheved (18 March 2019). "Improving the Quality of Consumer Health Information on Wikipedia: Case Series".Journal of Medical Internet Research.21(3): e12450.doi:10.2196/12450.{{cite journal}}:CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
I was a recipient of the2016 Cooke Awardfor this research. The award is granted annually by vote of the Academy of Medical Educators at the University of California, San Francisco.
Wexelbaum, Rachel; Herzog, Katie; Rasberry, Lane (2015). "Queering Wikipedia". In Wexelbaum, Rachel (ed.).Queers Online - LGBT Digital Practices in Libraries, Archives, and Museums.Sacramento, California: Litwin Books. pp. 61–80.ISBN978-1936117796.
Rasberry, L. (2014). "Wikipedia: what it is and why it matters for healthcare".BMJ.348(apr08 3): g2478–g2478.doi:10.1136/bmj.g2478.ISSN1756-1833.
I was a lead organizer for WikiConference North America 2014-2016 and have been joining organizing meetings ever since. I organized Queering Wikipedia in 2020-23. Besides that I present at local Wikimedia conferences.
Rasberry, Lane; Heilman, James; Poore, Sydney; Orlowitz, Jake; Richter, Felix (31 May 2014),"Health Science Panel",WikiConference USA,New York City: Wiki NYC
This one is incomplete and was a mess. I started making articles for government posts in India in 2010. I had a source but later decided that it did not meetWP:RS.I needed a source for top-level Indian government posts, and did not know when I would see anything like that. In 2016 someone came to Wikipedia withRight to Information (India)documents that listed government officials in posts. So far as I know, that person's Right to Information request provided the first published record of lists of high ranking government officers in India to mass media.
