[Foundation-l] NIH and Wikimedia Foundation collaborate to improve online health information

[Samuel Klein]

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 at 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_%28April_2009%29.png
>
> 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_first_WP_Academy_July_2009
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
>
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