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

[Steven Walling]

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 at 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 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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