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;English Heritage and the Archaeological Data Service – What does it mean to Wikipedia?


''This post was written by Nuša Farič ([[Wikipedia:en:User:Hydra Rain|User:Hydra Rain]]), UCL, Centre for Health Informatics & Multiprofessional Education (CHIME)''
<span class="plainlinks">In October, English Heritage made 84 of their publications freely available online through the [http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/ Archaeological Data Service]. The ADS has been running since 1996 and it brings together a huge amount of information from archaeologists in the UK. Amongst the gems on the site you can find copies of unpublished fieldwork reports ([http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/greylit/ known as grey literature]) and copies of [http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/?category=journalsandseries journals] such as the ''Proceedings of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland''. These resources are freely available online. The release of the monographs by English Heritage adds to the rich tapestry of information already available.</span>


Half of the editors working on Wikipedia’s 25,000 pages of medical content are qualified medics or other healthcare professionals, providing reassurance about the reliability of the website, according to our newly published research results. Those editors, who are contributing their time for free, are motivated by a belief in the value of Wikipedia, a sense of responsibility to help provide good quality health information, and because they find editing Wikipedia supports their own learning.
Digitisation is not universal. Many archaeological societies would like to digitise their publications, particularly those which are out of copyright, but time and money can be difficult to come by. But progress is being made, and the ADS is a valuable resource to researchers. The release was so popular the ADS server struggled to keep up with the demand.


Wikipedia is known to be a go-to place for healthcare information for both professionals and the lay public. The first question everyone asks is: but how reliable is it? In a new study, just published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, we took a different approach. We wanted to know more about the people behind the medical pages on Wikipedia, what background do they come from, whether they have specific interests in health and what drives them to contribute to Wikipedia. Because getting health-related content on Wikipedia right is about more than getting the facts correct. It's about how the information is presented, how topics are covered and what perspectives taken. [http://www.jmir.org/2014/12/e260 You can read the paper here].
But what does this mean for Wikipedia? These books aren’t just reliable sources, they are written by some leading archaeologists, the likes of Philip Barker, Francis Pryor, and Timothy Darvill. In many cases, these are the definitive works on a particular subject. The 1990 survey and history of Carlisle Castle should be the starting place for anyone looking for detailed information on the site. The account of the excavations at Beeston Castle are the most detailed available.


I'm at the beginning of my research career and I'm very proud that my first published paper is on Wikipedia and Wikipedians. I did this study over 8 months as part of my [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology/teachingandcourses/msc-health-%20psychology Master's course in Health Psychology at UCL]. The project was with Dr Henry Potts, a senior lecturer at UCL's Institute of Health Informatics, who is also a long-time Wikipedian as [[Wikipedia:en:User:Bondegezou|User:Bondegezou]].
<span class="plainlinks">[https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2014/12/english-heritage-and-the-archaeological-data-service-what-does-it-mean-to-wikipedia/<nowiki>[</nowiki>Read the full post here...<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</span>
 
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