Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/May 2013
On Tuesday, 28 May there will be a community Wikipedia meeting at the United States National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland - with a second on Thursday, 30 May for those who can't make it on Tuesday. You can participate either in-person, or via an online webinar. If you attend in person, USB sticks (but not external drives) are ok to use.
If you are interested in participating, please register by sending an email to pmhmeet@gmail.com. Please indicate if you are coming in person or if you will be joining us via the webinar. After registering, you will receive additional information about how to get to our campus (if coming in-person) or details about how to join the webinar.
Interested participants should also sign your username below, and watch this page for updates!
See also our list of articles for editing and etherpad.
Planned activities
All times are in U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4:00).
Tuesday 28 May
Webinar/Edit-a-Thon starts at 2:15PM in 4th floor training room, Lister Hill Center
Make sure you get to the campus half an hour ahead to allow time to get through security and bring a photo ID. Details about getting there and security here: visitor information
12.30 – 1.30pm: NLM introduction and tour, how to get literature onsite
1.30 – 2.00pm: Meeting with Stephen Greenberg, History of Medicine section
2.15 - 2.40pm: Wikipedia and Medicine – James Heilman (Doc James)
2.40 - 3.00pm: Finding & choosing info online from NLM – Hilda Bastian (Hildabast)
3.00 - 3.30pm: How to edit Wikipedia – Lane Rasberry (Blue Rasberry)
3.30 - 5.00pm: Hands-on help with editing & searching
5.00 - 6.30pm: Discussion
Thursday 30 May
Webinar/Edit-a-Thon starts at 9:30AM in 4th floor training room, Lister Hill Center
Make sure you get to the campus half an hour ahead to allow time to get through security and bring a photo ID. Details about getting there and security here: visitor information
9.30 - 10.00am: Wikipedia Project Medicine – James Heilman (Doc James)
10.00 - 10.30am: Finding & choosing info online from NLM – Hilda Bastian (Hildabast)
10.30 - 11.00am: How to edit Wikipedia – Lane Rasberry, Wikipedia (Blue Rasberry)
11.00 – 12.00pm: Hands-on help with editing & searching
12.00 - 12.30pm: Discussion: Wikipedia and NLM & NIH
Discussion topics will include:
- relationship with Wiki Project Med
- JMIR Wiki Medical Reviews
- cataloging of grey literature from Consumer Reports or any other organization doing layman-targeted health publication
- future relationship of National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)/NLM/NIH with Wikipedia community
Participants
If you are interested in participating, please register by sending an email to pmhmeet@gmail.com.
- Attending
- Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:40, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
- Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 20:37, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
- Hildabast (talk) 12:35, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
- Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 22:15, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
- Smallbones(smalltalk) 04:38, 24 May 2013 (UTC) (Thursday - sorry, looks like I won't make it)
- Siobhan Champ-Blackwell
- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 17:58, 24 May 2013 (UTC) - will attend part of it (remotely), can help with illustrations and with coverage of Open Access Media Importer, WP:OPENACCESS, and PLOS Computational Biology Topic Pages
- Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 06:12, 25 May 2013 (UTC) by webinar
- Klortho (talk) 22:00, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·cont) Join WER 14:26, 15 May 2013 (UTC) Not an MD; retired volunteer medic.- Friend of Smokey the Bear (Wikimedia DC MeetUp member, Thursday only)
- mijotoba (talk) 23:36, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
- --Mzorn1 (talk) 14:32, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
- GCTJ (talk) 16:48, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
- Djembayz (talk) 12:35, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
- Katiemariefunk (talk)
- Maybe
- Regrets
- ~~Ebe123~~ → report 19:34, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
- DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·cont) Join WER 21:11, 27 May 2013 (UTC) Called in to work overtime at last minute. Maybe make a later gettogether.
- Econterms (talk) 14:15, 28 May 2013 (UTC) -- Really wish I could. Maybe next time.
Best Wishes
- Awesome collaboration! Always thought of this possibility whenever I referred NCBI. Very Best wishes to everyone!! --Nicke.me (talk) 18:41, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
- Not really my thing, but sounds like a great event. Enjoy and have fun!! SarahStierch (talk) 13:56, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Articles to edit
Outcomes
Photos of event uploaded Category:2013 National Library of Medicine editathon 156.40.123.10 (talk) 18:54, 28 May 2013 (UTC)