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

[Dan Rosenthal]

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 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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