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My name is Amin Azzam, and
I'm a faculty member at

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the University of California, San
Francisco School of Medicine and

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the University of California,
Berkeley School of Public Health.

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I'd like to tell you about the biggest
thing I'm doing in my professional life:

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embracing Wikipedia. Let me tell you why.

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In 2013, I was having lunch with
a former student of mine, Mike Turken.

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I always like to give him credit for
the idea.

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And he said, Amin,
why are you faculty fighting us on this?

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We all go in Wikipedia as students because
it's written in a way we can understand.

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Why don't you help us make it better?

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And I realized he was totally right.

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So I created the world's
first medical student course

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where students are editing health-related
content of Wikipedia for academic credit.

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Since then, we've formed a number
of partnership at UCSF, and

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I'd like to tell you about those.

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First, the Wiki Education Foundation.

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That organization is dedicated to helping
faculty with resources that you can

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use for your students to learn the rules
and style guidelines of editing Wikipedia,

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plagiarism, aspects of editing that they
don't necessarily know as Wikipedia users.

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Second, WikiProject Medicine.

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This is a all-volunteer organization
dedicated to improving the health-related

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content of the English language
Wikipedia.

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They help us by rank ordering
the importance of these pages.

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So my students know exactly which pages
they can make a bigger difference on.

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Third, Translators Without Borders.

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This organization partners so

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that after the English language Wikipedia
pages reach a minimum quality threshold,

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they then translate those to
other language Wikipedias.

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Fourth, Wikipedia Zero.

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This is an initiative to provide access
to Wikipedia in the developing world

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without data access charges.

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So when you add all those partnerships
together, our students have an opportunity

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to provide high quality health
information to the world's population,

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in the language of their preference, in
the way they already access the internet.

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And for free.

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Can you see why this is the biggest
thing I'm doing in my professional life?

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Join us.