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 <[email protected]> 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 > > <[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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
