Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
Mission Impossible? Utilizing Wikipedia in the Pandemic Era: Building our Community of Practice
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
Mission Impossible? Utilizing Wikipedia in the Pandemic Era: Building our Community of Practice
Mission Impossible? Utilizing Wikipedia in the Pandemic Era: Building our Community of Practice
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Mission Impossible, Utilizing Wikipedia, the Pandemic Era, Building our Community of Practice
Description
Introduction: Wikipedia is the dominant online global reference for patients, health providers and the public. Wikipedia ranks as the seventh most accessed internet web site. This presentation examines how Wikipedia is currently used by NIOSH, and its specific use during a crisis communication events
Materials and Methods: This presentation is guided by the results of a continuing investigation of how traffic from Wikipedia articles correlates with traffic to the main NIOSH web site and how page
view statistics compare to organic search and other web site drivers of the information dissemination. Investigators compared Wikipedia’s occurrence, mean position, and topic page views and examined which factors influenced web site ranking.
Results and Conclusions: Data shows that by developing and imple-
menting a carefully crafted online strategy Wikipedia edits can become animportant driver of evidenced-basedinformation during a crisis communication event. Currently, after organic searchWikipedia
is the number one driver of visitors to the Institute’s web site. The rank of a web sites among search engines results depends on search engine algorithms and search engine optimization strategies (SEO), which aim to influence rankings. Wikipedia enhances global search algorithms. Given Wikipedia’s unique global reach the possibility for international collaboration has the potential of enhancing the worldwide delivery of free, high quality, and up to date health and safety research findings.
Materials and Methods: This presentation is guided by the results of a continuing investigation of how traffic from Wikipedia articles correlates with traffic to the main NIOSH web site and how page
view statistics compare to organic search and other web site drivers of the information dissemination. Investigators compared Wikipedia’s occurrence, mean position, and topic page views and examined which factors influenced web site ranking.
Results and Conclusions: Data shows that by developing and imple-
menting a carefully crafted online strategy Wikipedia edits can become animportant driver of evidenced-basedinformation during a crisis communication event. Currently, after organic searchWikipedia
is the number one driver of visitors to the Institute’s web site. The rank of a web sites among search engines results depends on search engine algorithms and search engine optimization strategies (SEO), which aim to influence rankings. Wikipedia enhances global search algorithms. Given Wikipedia’s unique global reach the possibility for international collaboration has the potential of enhancing the worldwide delivery of free, high quality, and up to date health and safety research findings.
Creator
Max Lum
Publisher
Elsevier Korea LLC
Date
January 2022
Contributor
Sri Wahyuni
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PDF
Language
English
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
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Max Lum, “Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
Mission Impossible? Utilizing Wikipedia in the Pandemic Era: Building our Community of Practice,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed April 26, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/2498.
Mission Impossible? Utilizing Wikipedia in the Pandemic Era: Building our Community of Practice,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed April 26, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/2498.