TY - JOUR
T1 - An educator framework for organizing Wikipedia editathons for computational biology
AU - Sélem-Mojica, Nelly
AU - Lubiana, Tiago
AU - Pulido, Toni Hermoso
AU - Gallego-Crespo, Aarón
AU - Karakulak, Tülay
AU - Hegde, Megha
AU - Näpflin, Nicolas C
AU - Anjum, Audra
AU - Eranti, Pradeep
AU - DeBlasio, Dan
AU - García-Chávez, Jorge Noé
AU - Rangel-Chávez, Cynthia Paola
AU - Rodriguez-Gomez, Divanery
AU - López-Ramírez, Varinia
AU - Vázquez-Martínez, Juan
AU - Welch, Lonnie R
AU - Kilpatrick, Alastair M
AU - Rahman, Farzana
PY - 2025/7
Y1 - 2025/7
N2 - Wikipedia is a vital open educational resource in computational biology; however, a significant knowledge gap exists between English and non-English Wikipedias. Reducing this knowledge gap via intensive editing events, or “editathons,” would be beneficial in reducing language barriers that disadvantage learners whose native language is not English. Results: We present a framework to guide educators in organizing editathons for learners to improve and create relevant Wikipedia articles. As a case study, we present the results of an editathon held at the 2024 ISCB Latin America conference, in which ten new articles were created for the Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia. We also present a web tool, “compbio-on-wiki,” which identifies relevant English Wikipedia articles missing in other languages. We demonstrate the value of editathons to expand the accessibility and visibility of computational biology content in multiple languages.
AB - Wikipedia is a vital open educational resource in computational biology; however, a significant knowledge gap exists between English and non-English Wikipedias. Reducing this knowledge gap via intensive editing events, or “editathons,” would be beneficial in reducing language barriers that disadvantage learners whose native language is not English. Results: We present a framework to guide educators in organizing editathons for learners to improve and create relevant Wikipedia articles. As a case study, we present the results of an editathon held at the 2024 ISCB Latin America conference, in which ten new articles were created for the Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia. We also present a web tool, “compbio-on-wiki,” which identifies relevant English Wikipedia articles missing in other languages. We demonstrate the value of editathons to expand the accessibility and visibility of computational biology content in multiple languages.
U2 - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf216
DO - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf216
M3 - Conference article
SN - 1367-4803
VL - 41
SP - i12-i20
JO - Bioinformatics
JF - Bioinformatics
IS - Supplement_1
T2 - 33rd Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and 24th European Conference on Computational Biology
Y2 - 20 July 2025 through 24 July 2025
ER -