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Hilda Bastian
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Wikipedia visits the National Library of Medicine and
NIH<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbW…
07/17/2013 10:00 AM EDT
[Image of Wikipedians.]
PubMed Health’s collaboration with Wikipedia took an exciting leap forward when
WikiProject Medicine came to visit at the end of May. WikiProject
Medicine<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzP…
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
(
NCBI<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmb…);http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/>),
in his welcoming remarks. "Almost any topic - I go to Wikipedia, and I find something
useful. At the very least, it’s always the beginning of finding useful information."
That’s why Wikipedia is now the most
used<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmb…
reference website in the world. There are over 20 billion
visits<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTE…
to Wikipedia pages in a month – and over 200
million<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPT…
of those are to pages related to medicine or health.
When the National Library of Medicine’s NCBI began developing PubMed Health to help people
find and use systematic
reviews<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPT…2013/04/keep-up-with-evidence/>,
Wikipedia was a logical port of
call<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmb…ce_for_Wikipedia_medical_pages>.
Systematic reviews aim to minimize bias – and
"NPOV<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTMwNzE3LjIxMjA1NzYxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDEzMDcxNy4yMTIwNTc2MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3MTk3OTI4JmVtYWlsaWQ9aGlsZGEuYmFzdGlhbkBuaWguZ292JnVzZXJpZD1oaWxkYS5iYXN0aWFuQG5paC5nb3YmZmw9JmV4dHJhPU11bHRpdmFyaWF0ZUlkPSYmJg==&&&108&&&http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view>"
(a neutral point of view) is central to Wikipedia. Wikipedia designates systematic reviews
as "ideal" reliable
sources<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPT…
for its medical pages.
What’s more, Wikipedia called on the medical community to join in editing
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Wikipedia<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFz…
– and the NIH houses a formidable pool of
expertise<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFz…
along with the U.S. National Library of Medicine
(
NLM<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbW…);&http://www.nlm.nih.gov/>).
In 2009, the NIH had organized a Wikipedia
Academy<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPT…
with the Wikimedia
Foundation<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWF…imediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>,
establishing guidelines for participating in Wikipedia from
NIH<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbW…d/od/ocpl/resources/wikipedia/>.
And the Wikimedia community has since begun an outreach program with cultural institutions
called
GLAM<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmb…
(for "galleries, libraries, archives and museums").
[Image of Wikipedia logo at NLM.]
World’s biggest encyclopedia – meet the world’s biggest medical library!
The activities at NLM were a joint
project<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPT…
with WikiProject Medicine. James
Heilman<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPT…
traveled to Bethesda from Canada, and Lane Rasberry traveled from New York. James is an
emergency room doctor who’s a Wikipedia
Administrator<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=…
(the Wikipedia equivalent of moderators). Lane is
Wikipedian-in-residence<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click…
at Consumer Reports.
Edit-a-thons<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=Z…
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
(
OCPL<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmb…)
and its History of Medicine
division<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzP…mp;http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/>.
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
collection<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWF…
for the week.
Plans for future joint activity bubbled up early. Melanie Modlin from OCPL pointed out the
oil paintings of NLM’s directors dotting the walls of the Reading Room. Local Wikipedians
quickly established there weren’t 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
Lindberg<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzP…
– 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
What’s 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 Health’s interest and activities with Wikipedia, focusing
on our plans to routinely incorporate Wikipedia editing as part of our process of
featuring
reviews<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPT…
at PubMed Health (see below).
There is a list of the talks and David Lipman’s 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
Wikipedia
norms<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEm…d/od/ocpl/resources/wikipedia/>.
A meeting on 29 May at NIH’s Wilson Hall organized by Marin Allen, NIH Office of
Communications and Public
Liaison<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPT…ttp://www.nih.gov/icd/od/ocpl/>,
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
DC<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWF…tp://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Home>,
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 NLM and NIH? Then
email pmhmeet@nih.gov<mailto:pmhmeet@nih.gov> or add your name at
Wikipedia<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFz…:WikiProject_Medicine/May_2013>.
Read about how to edit Wikipedia medical
pages<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEm…
Or start with a more general introduction on editing
Wikipedia<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFz…
Get editing help online from the friendly people at Wikipedia
Teahouse<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzP…
Evaluation of Wikipedia content on
PubMed<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTE…
View recorded talks from webinar, including captions and slides:
* Dr David Lipman (NCBI) and Dr James Heilman (WikiProject
Medicine)<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFz…
[40 min]
Slides from the Edit-a-thons:
* James Heilman – Wikipedia and
Medicine<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTMwNzE3LjIxMjA1NzYxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDEzMDcxNy4yMTIwNTc2MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3MTk3OTI4JmVtYWlsaWQ9aGlsZGEuYmFzdGlhbkBuaWguZ292JnVzZXJpZD1oaWxkYS5iYXN0aWFuQG5paC5nb3YmZmw9JmV4dHJhPU11bHRpdmFyaWF0ZUlkPSYmJg==&&&134&&&http://bit.ly/1aAh0Cf>
* Hilda Bastian – PubMed Health: Finding & choosing info online or at the
NLM<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTMwNzE3LjIxMjA1NzYxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDEzMDcxNy4yMTIwNTc2MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3MTk3OTI4JmVtYWlsaWQ9aGlsZGEuYmFzdGlhbkBuaWguZ292JnVzZXJpZD1oaWxkYS5iYXN0aWFuQG5paC5nb3YmZmw9JmV4dHJhPU11bHRpdmFyaWF0ZUlkPSYmJg==&&&135&&&http://bit.ly/12S7usy>
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 NLM’s Lister Hill Center on
Tuesday, 28 May 2013. From left: Mary Mark Ockerbloom, James Heilman, Janice Rice Okita.
There are more photos in Wikimedia
Commons<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPT…_Library_of_Medicine_editathon>.
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