Wikipedia visits the National Library of Medicine and NIH - Blog - National Library of Medicine - PubMed Health

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-07-19

Summary:

PubMed Health’s collaboration with Wikipedia took an exciting leap forward when WikiProject Medicine came to visit at the end of May. WikiProject Medicine is where people gather to collaborate on medicine and health in Wikipedia. 'Wikipedia really is a miracle,' said David Lipman, Director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), in his welcoming remarks. 'Almost any topic - I go to Wikipedia, and I find something useful. At the very least, it’s always the beginning of finding useful information.' That’s why Wikipedia is now the most used reference website in the world. There are over 20 billion visits to Wikipedia pages in a month – and over 200 million of those are to pages related to medicine or health. When the National Library of Medicine’s NCBI began developing PubMed Health to help people find and use systematic reviews, Wikipedia was a logical port of call. Systematic reviews aim to minimize bias – and 'NPOV' (a neutral point of view) is central to Wikipedia. Wikipedia designates systematic reviews as "ideal" reliable sources for its medical pages. What’s more, Wikipedia called on the medical community to join in editing Wikipedia – and the NIH houses a formidable pool of expertise along with the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). In 2009, the NIH had organized a Wikipedia Academy with the Wikimedia Foundation, establishing guidelines for participating in Wikipedia from NIH. And the Wikimedia community has since begun an outreach program with cultural institutions called GLAM (for "galleries, libraries, archives and museums") ... The activities at NLM were a joint project with WikiProject Medicine. James Heilman traveled to Bethesda from Canada, and Lane Rasberry traveled from New York. James is an emergency room doctor who’s a WikipediaAdministrator (the Wikipedia equivalent of moderators). Lane is Wikipedian-in-residence at Consumer Reports.  Edit-a-thons in a packed training room and invited meetings over three days attracted over 60 people. There were Wikipedians and staff from PubMed Health, the National Library of Medicine and from all around the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ... What’s a Wikipedia edit-a-thon? Turns out it's a lot of fun! Experienced Wikipedia editors get together with newcomers who are curious and eager to learn the ropes. We packed out a training room twice (28 and 30 May), with more joining by webinar. Each webinar started with talks, including an inspiring and fascinating overview of Wikipedia globally and Wikipedia in medicine by James Heilman and an introduction into how to edit Wikipedia by Lane Rasberry (see below).  Hilda Bastian spoke about PubMed Health’s interest and activities with Wikipedia, focusing on our plans to routinely incorporate Wikipedia editing as part of our process of featuring reviews at PubMed Health (see below).  There is a list of the talks and David Lipman’s opening remarks below, along with links to tips on editing Wikipedia and where you can get people to help you with any issues you have when you get started. Learning the ropes of the software can be challenging, but a new visual editor coming in the next few months aims to make it much easier for newcomers ..."

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/blog/2013/07/Wikipedia-visits-National-Library-of-Medicine-NIH/

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Date tagged:

07/19/2013, 07:11

Date published:

07/19/2013, 03:11