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

[Chad]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Steven Walling<steven.walling at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Awesome. Only wish we had known about it sooner. I might've
tried coming up to the DC area for this.

-Chad