 talk. It is night time for the next speaker. So great to be able to be with you even though I'm not with you physically. My name is Jody Schneider. I'm in the United States where I research many topics and focused on information. What I want to tell you about today is Wikimedians as information intermediaries. I've been working particularly about COVID-19 and some other topics that I'm looking to talk with more Wikimedians about. So first I want to talk about the idea of information disorder. There's all kinds of information that we as Wikimedians often try to prevent from showing up, ranging from things that are utterly meant to be for fun, satires and parodies to things that are fabricated. So Wikimedia fights the sort of information disorder. But how? Who is it that that happens? Well, I would say it's because the systems of people and the support around is there's this information intermediary work that is happening. And information intermediary means someone who's moving knowledge around, creating connections between researchers and their various audiences. And so what I've been looking at is how is it that Wikimedians and other information intermediaries are gathering and making sense of scientific and technical information? How is it that we're assessing the quality and utility of scientific and technical information? How are we translating between experts and the general public? How do we make sure that the information that's there is good? So as I'm doing this kind of research, what I'm focusing on this to start with is COVID-19. And you see from my US context, some of the kinds of information that we've seen in the past handful of years. So we're taking in this research two different approaches. One is talking to people, having interviews with Wikimedians, journalists, activists, backchacters, filmmakers, bloggers, influencers, anyone who is that kind of information intermediary, moving information from across different communities. The second kind of thing that we're doing is what I would call document analysis. It's basically looking at stuff that people have shared to try to understand what's there. Right now, we're focusing on a particular scientific research paper that's a review article, a Cochrane review, and analyzing the online attention in the Almetrics. That's a paper called Physical Interventions to Interrupt or Reduce the Spread of Respiratory Viruses, which is some has been used since it was published to talk a lot about masks. So what I want to say is contact me if you want to talk to my team about this. So far, we've talked to 10 people about COVID-19 from various of these perspectives. And we'd love to talk to a bunch of Wikimedians. My topics coming up will be climate change and labor. Who's relevant? Anybody who's editing in these areas, who's moving information around. So the kinds of things that we talk to people, usually we try to have about an hour to have maybe a video conversation. We ask what does the process of gathering information look like for you when you're working on these scientific and technical topics? What types of information did you look for? How did you know a source was credible? How do you see your source in spreading information? Who's your typical audience? So if that sounds interesting and you'd like to have a conversation help in the research that we're doing, I look forward to coming back and telling you what we know out of this. My research lab has a web page infoquality.org and there's a Knowledge Brokers page. You can also find me on Wikis, especially English Wikipedia is my main, but you can find me on Meta and other places as user jody.a.schneider. Thanks a bunch. Have a great rest of your time in Singapore and I'll see you guys online I hope. That was very educative session. We all believe that Wikimedians have been playing a major role as intermediary between the researchers and the readers.