Strategies for crowdsourcing hearing health information: a comparative study of educational programs and volunteer-based campaigns on Wikimedia

• Main Authors: Thais C. Morata (Author), Fernanda Zucki (Author), Adriano Jorge Arrigo (Author), Priscila Carvalho Cruz (Author), Wei Gong (Author), Hector Gabriel Corrale de Matos (Author), Alexandre Alberto Pascotto Montilha (Author), João Alexandre Peschanski (Author), Maria Julia Cardoso (Author), Adriana Bender Moreira Lacerda (Author), Ana Paula Berberian (Author), Eliene Silva Araujo (Author), Débora Luders (Author), Josilene Luciene Duarte (Author), Regina Tangerino de Souza Jacob (Author), Shelly Chadha (Author), Daniel Mietchen (Author), Lane Rasberry (Author), Katia de Freitas Alvarenga (Author), Lilian Cassia Bornia Jacob (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Several health institutions developed strategies to improve health content on Wikimedia platforms given their unparalleled reach. The objective of this study was to compare an online volunteer-based Wikimedia outreach campaign with university course Wikipedia assignments (both fo...