{"id":14287,"date":"2018-03-28T13:18:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T13:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/ner\/?p=14287"},"modified":"2018-03-28T13:18:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T13:18:51","slug":"nnlm-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-april-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2018\/03\/28\/nnlm-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-april-17th\/","title":{"rendered":"NNLM Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon &#8211; April 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you interested in improving the consumer health information available on Wikipedia? Do you want to utilize your librarian research skills towards making Wikipedia a better, evidence-based resource? Have you always wanted to participate in an edit-a-thon? Join the National Network of Libraries of Medicine on April 17<sup>th<\/sup> as we add citations to existing Wikipedia articles on rare diseases! We\u2019ll be working on those diseases listed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/rarediseases.info.nih.gov\/diseases\">Genetic and Rare Disease Information Center<\/a>, using trusted National Library of Medicine resources like Genetics Home Reference, MedlinePlus, and PubMed.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re new to adding citations, NNLM will be hosting a webinar with Dr. James Heilman, a physician and active WikiProject Medicine editor. Dr. Heilman will give attendees an overview of the importance of Wikipedia, and will demo how to add a citation. NNLM\u2019s webinar with Dr. Heilman is scheduled for 2-3 pm ET on Thursday, March 29<sup>th<\/sup>. Participants are encouraged to <a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/class\/Wikipedia_training\">register for the training<\/a> even if they can\u2019t attend, as all registered participants will receive a recording of the webinar. <strong>Please note:<\/strong> you must <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&amp;returnto=Main+Page\">create a Wikipedia user account<\/a> prior to the event to be able to participate.<\/p>\n<p>NNLM staff from across the region will be available Tuesday, April 17th from <em>9 am ET to 9 pm ET<\/em> to support you as you add your citations. Follow along with the fun on Twitter&#8211;check for hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;q=%23CiteNLM2018&amp;src=typd\">#citeNLM2018<\/a>!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14288 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/ner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/03\/CiteNLM_GHR_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/03\/CiteNLM_GHR_final.jpg 500w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/03\/CiteNLM_GHR_final-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14286 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/ner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/03\/CiteNLM_mock_PubMed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/03\/CiteNLM_mock_PubMed.jpg 500w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/03\/CiteNLM_mock_PubMed-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14289 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/ner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/03\/CiteNLM_medlineplus_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/03\/CiteNLM_medlineplus_final.jpg 500w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/03\/CiteNLM_medlineplus_final-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you interested in improving the consumer health information available on Wikipedia? Do you want to utilize your librarian research skills towards making Wikipedia a better, evidence-based resource? Have you always wanted to participate in an edit-a-thon? Join the National Network of Libraries of Medicine on April 17th as we add citations to existing Wikipedia&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2018\/03\/28\/nnlm-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-april-17th\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,10,18],"tags":[317,228,316],"class_list":["post-14287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-nlm","category-nlm_resources","category-trainings","tag-event","tag-training","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14290,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions\/14290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}