{"id":15459,"date":"2019-11-26T18:11:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/ner\/?p=15459"},"modified":"2019-11-26T18:11:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:11:47","slug":"crowdsourcing-citizen-science-and-edit-a-thons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2019\/11\/26\/crowdsourcing-citizen-science-and-edit-a-thons\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science and Edit-a-Thons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thank you to all who participated in the Fall 2019 #citeNLM virtual edit-a-thon. In the November crowdsourcing campaign, over 548 articles were edited, over 47 thousand words added, all by 108 editors. To see the amazing work everyone did, check out the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org\/campaigns\/citenlm_fall_2019\/programs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> #citeNLM Program Dashboard<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to see statistics on the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, if you get the opportunity, try to attend next year\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wikiconference.org\/wiki\/2019\/Main_Page\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WikiConference North America<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> either online or in person. This year, the conference was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.The theme was reliability\/credibility. There were many great information sessions, posters, meet-ups, open hacking and brainstorming sessions. Many of the sessions were live streamed and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wikiconference.org\/wiki\/2019\/Streaming\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">recordings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are available. It is a great conference for both experienced and novice Wikipedians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wikipedia\u2019s health topics pages are visited nearly 7 billion times a year, making it possibly the world\u2019s most visited health information resource. All of us working together, or crowdsourcing, improves Wikipedia\u2019s credibility, reliability, and content. The amazing power of becoming an editor is editing can be done anytime.\u00a0 If you have specialized knowledge of a topic, see an error or notice missing or incorrect information, or references missing, editors can review, add and correct information at any time. The more people reviewing the content the more reliable it will become.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you did not get a chance to participate in the latest #citeNLM campaign, it is not too late to become a Wikipedian. There is information about how to become an editor, online training and a guide for organizers for hosting your own edit-a-thon at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/national\/guides\/ccs\/wikipedia-edit-thon\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nnlm.gov<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and be sure to join us in the Spring for our next #citeNLM\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/national\/guides\/ccs\/wikipedia-edit-thon\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The role of Wikipedia and the importance of edit-a-thons<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Become-a-Wikipedia-Editor\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How to become a Wikipedia editor<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/national\/guides\/ccs\/wikipedia-edit-thon\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Citing NLM resources and best practices for editing articles on medical and health topics<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hosting your own event using the #citeNLM<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/ccs_citenlm_org_guide\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Guide for Organizers<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congratulations everyone for your hard work and thank you again for your help making Wikipedia a credible, reliable resource.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to all who participated in the Fall 2019 #citeNLM virtual edit-a-thon. In the November crowdsourcing campaign, over 548 articles were edited, over 47 thousand words added, all by 108 editors. To see the amazing work everyone did, check out the #citeNLM Program Dashboard to see statistics on the event. In addition, if you&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2019\/11\/26\/crowdsourcing-citizen-science-and-edit-a-thons\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1174,"featured_media":15462,"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":[242],"tags":[348,248,450,288,346,216,316],"class_list":["post-15459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-citizen-science","tag-community-engagement","tag-credibility","tag-data_science","tag-open-science","tag-technology","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/11\/CiteNLM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15459","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\/1174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15463,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15459\/revisions\/15463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}