You may have heard of Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons, where rooms full of people add content and citations to Wikipedia, to make it a better, evidence-based resource.\u00a0 Does the idea intrigue you?\u00a0 Are you a killer searcher and verifier?\u00a0 Or even pretty good?\u00a0 If so, we have an opportunity for you!<\/p>\n
Join us at the NNLM Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, from 6AM to 6PM Pacific Time on April 17 (it\u2019s online only– no travel required!).\u00a0 We\u2019ll be focusing on diseases listed by the Genetic and Rare Disease Information Center<\/a> (GARD), and improving them using trusted National Library of Medicine resources like Genetics Home Reference, MedlinePlus, and PubMed. You just find a disease name in GARD, see if it needs better citations in Wikipedia, find good content to add, and then edit that page!\u00a0 Add the #citeNLM2018<\/a> tag in your edit summary, and you\u2019re done!<\/p>\n Sound daunting?\u00a0 Trust us, it isn\u2019t!\u00a0 If you set up your Wikipedia account (in advance\u2014it can take a day or two), you are most of the way there.\u00a0 For tutorials and support, check out our edit-a-thon project page on Wikipedia<\/a>, which features a recording of a teaching session by Dr. James Heilman (Doc James) from WikiProject Medicine.\u00a0 It also has the link to the WebEx page (our virtual classroom on April 17), which will be open all day for chat and support. Also, our dashboard page<\/a>, on which you can register and be counted, has some nice to-do lists in advance of the event.\u00a0 WebJunction also has some amazing content<\/a>, should you find yourself hooked!<\/p>\n We hope to \u201csee\u201d you on the 17th<\/sup>!\u00a0 If you have any questions, please don\u2019t hesitate to contact Ann Glusker, at glusker@uw.edu<\/a>.\u00a0 Happy editing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You may have heard of Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons, where rooms full of people add content and citations to Wikipedia, to make it a better, evidence-based resource.\u00a0 Does the idea intrigue you?\u00a0 Are you a killer searcher and verifier?\u00a0 Or even pretty good?\u00a0 If so, we have an opportunity for you! Join us at the NNLM Wikipedia… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,58],"tags":[89,83,90,82],"class_list":["post-16312","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-health-literacy","category-news-from-nnlm","tag-citation","tag-edit-a-thon","tag-genetic-diseases","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16314,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16312\/revisions\/16314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}