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--Tom
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Bastian, Hilda (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
<hilda.bastian(a)nih.gov> wrote:
G'day!
Read all about what happened when the world's largest encyclopedia met
the world's largest medical library!
Hilda Bastian
PubMed Health
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Wikipedia visits the National Library of Medicine and
NIH<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGl
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th/blog/2013/07/Wikipedia-visits-National-Library-of-Medicine-NIH/>
07/17/2013 10:00 AM EDT
[Image of Wikipedians.]
PubMed Health¹s collaboration with Wikipedia took an exciting leap
forward when WikiProject Medicine came to visit at the end of May.
WikiProject
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pedia:WikiProject_Medicine> is where people gather to collaborate on
medicine and health in Wikipedia.
"Wikipedia really is a miracle," said David Lipman, Director of the
National Center for Biotechnology Information
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in
his welcoming remarks. "Almost any topic - I go to Wikipedia, and I find
something useful. At the very least, it¹s always the beginning of
finding useful information."
That¹s why Wikipedia is now the most
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most_popular_websites> reference website in the world. There are over 20
billion
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9/wikimedia-projects-500-million/> to Wikipedia pages in a month and
over 200
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edia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages> of those are to pages related
to medicine or health.
When the National Library of Medicine¹s NCBI began developing PubMed
Health to help people find and use systematic
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health/blog/2013/04/keep-up-with-evidence/>, Wikipedia was a logical
port of
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ki/Submissions/US_National_Library_of_Medicine¹s_PubMed_Health:_systemati
c_reviews_as_a_resource_for_Wikipedia_medical_pages>.
Systematic reviews aim to minimize bias and
"NPOV<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpb
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ia:Neutral_point_of_view>" (a neutral point of view) is central to
Wikipedia. Wikipedia designates systematic reviews as "ideal" reliable
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What¹s more, Wikipedia called on the medical community to join in
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along with the U.S. National Library of Medicine
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wiki/Home>, establishing guidelines for participating in Wikipedia from
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es/wikipedia/>. And the Wikimedia community has since begun an outreach
program with cultural institutions called
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AM> (for "galleries, libraries, archives and museums").
[Image of Wikipedia logo at NLM.]
World¹s biggest encyclopedia meet the world¹s biggest medical library!
The activities at NLM were a joint
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Heilman<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWF
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s/91/1/13-030113.pdf> traveled to Bethesda from Canada, and Lane
Rasberry traveled from New York. James is an emergency room doctor who¹s
a Wikipedia
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/Wikipedia:Administrators> (the Wikipedia equivalent of moderators).
Lane is
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Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon> in a packed training room and
invited meetings over three days attracted over 60 people. There were
Wikipedians and staff from PubMed Health, the National Library of
Medicine and from all around the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
We started on Tuesday 28 May with a tour of the Library organized by
NLM Office of Communications and Public Liaison
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Medical information motherlode! You can see photos of Wikipedians
enjoying themselves down amongst the closed library stacks underground
and more at NLM in the Wikimedia Commons' photo
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ki/Category:2013_National_Library_of_Medicine_editathon> for the week.
Plans for future joint activity bubbled up early. Melanie Modlin from
OCPL pointed out the oil paintings of NLM¹s directors dotting the walls
of the Reading Room. Local Wikipedians quickly established there weren¹t
digital versions online or Wikipedia entries, volunteering to write the
articles. NLM OCPL will supply images and pointers to bio information.
By the end of the day, the first Wikipedia entry for an NLM director
current director, Dr Donald
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ld_A.B._Lindberg> had begun. It was the first of many initiatives of
the week, as NIH-ers and Wikipedians worked their way through the role
of an institution in the generation of accurate but independent
encyclopedia content about it.
[Image of edit-a-thon participants.]
Wikipedia edit-a-thons at the NLM
What¹s a Wikipedia edit-a-thon? Turns out it's a lot of fun!
Experienced Wikipedia editors get together with newcomers who are
curious and eager to learn the ropes. We packed out a training room
twice (28 and 30 May), with more joining by webinar. Each webinar
started with talks, including an inspiring and fascinating overview of
Wikipedia globally and Wikipedia in medicine by James Heilman and an
introduction into how to edit Wikipedia by Lane Rasberry (see below).
Hilda Bastian spoke about PubMed Health¹s interest and activities with
Wikipedia, focusing on our plans to routinely incorporate Wikipedia
editing as part of our process of featuring
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/feed/rss.cgi?ChanKey=pmhfeaturedreviews> at PubMed Health (see below).
There is a list of the talks and David Lipman¹s opening remarks below,
along with links to tips on editing Wikipedia and where you can get
people to help you with any issues you have when you get started.
Learning the ropes of the software can be challenging, but a new visual
editor coming in the next few months aims to make it much easier for
newcomers.
The edit-a-thons were fun, building relationships and skills. Many took
the plunge of their first edit. A bonus was improvement to more than a
dozen Wikipedia pages, at least two new Wikipedia entries started and a
lot of discussion about ways that NIH Institutes can engage in improving
information about themselves without compromising either NIH or
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drew a wide range of NIH Institutes interested in ongoing collaboration.
Presentations by James Heilman, Lane Rasberry and Kristin Anderson from
our local chapter, Wikimedia
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explored next steps in building on the NIH relationship with Wikipedia.
Our thanks to the many people at WikiProject Medicine, Wikimedia DC,
NCBI, NLM and NIH OCPL who made the week such a success. We'll keep you
posted as our planned activities bear fruit.
The PubMed Health Team
Would you like to be kept informed of future Wikipedia activities at
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View recorded talks from webinar, including captions and slides:
* Dr David Lipman (NCBI) and Dr James Heilman (WikiProject
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Slides from the Edit-a-thons:
* James Heilman Wikipedia and
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* Hilda Bastian PubMed Health: Finding & choosing info online or
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The Wikipedia logo is a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, used
here with permission.
Photos:
At top: Kristin Anderson, James Heilman and Lane Rasberry: Wilson Hall,
NIH on Wednesday, 29 May 2013.
Below: The first WikiProject Medicine/NLM edit-a-thon in NLM¹s Lister
Hill Center on Tuesday, 28 May 2013. From left: Mary Mark Ockerbloom,
James Heilman, Janice Rice Okita.
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