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 <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
