This is a great first opportunity for a US Academy. It hits squarely home as
a rebuttal to the (relatively) recent flush of articles criticizing the
project for its medical articles.
I hope the Academy will be documented in some way that other volunteers can
draw on your experience working to educate professionals about Wikipedia.
Steven
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I will be there to assist, for one.
-Dan
On Jul 14, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Hello Frank,
This sounds very cool. Which Wikipedians will be there? Is it open to
anyone at the NIH? Is there a public agenda?
SJ
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Frank Schulenburg
<frank.schulenburg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Every day millions of people access health information online. We
> have
> recently seen some new hard evidence of Wikipedia's growing
> prominence
> as a health information resource. The rapid development and traffic
> on
> the English Wikipedia of an article on Influenza related articles
> demonstrates this trend:
>
>
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hourly_page_requests_influenza_%28Ap…
>
> Today, I'm very happy to announce that the first Wikipedia Academy
> event in the United States will take place this Thursday, July 16th
> at
> the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) headquarters in Bethesda,
> Maryland.
>
> The NIH includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the
> U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary
> federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and
> translational medical research, and it investigates the causes,
> treatments and cures for both common and rare diseases.
>
> On Thursday, a team of experienced volunteer Wikipedia editors will
> talk about Wikimedia's mission and orient the audience to Wikipedia's
> structures and community policies. Medical researchers and other
> staff
> members of the NIH will learn how to contribute to Wikipedia's
> content
> and engage with other Wikipedians to further increase Wikipedia's
> quality and credibility.
>
> We're incredibly excited about this opportunity for increasing the
> quality of health-related information on Wikipedia. I believe this
> partnership has a huge potential and we all are very excited about
> the
> upcoming event.
>
> See also our press release:
>
>
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/NIH_and_WMF_announce_fir…
Thanks,
Frank
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