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.schulenb...@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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ >> foundation-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
