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Marin Allen, NIH Director of Public Information, welcoming the speakers and participants.

The first Wikipedia Academy in the United States took place on July 16, 2009, at the NIH headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland.

Wikipedia Academies are public outreach events aimed at engaging academics and other subject-matter experts who are not familiar with wiki culture or online communities. In presentations and workshops, experienced Wikipedia authors teach the participants how to contribute to Wikipedia and orient the audience to Wikipedia’s structures and community policies.

Involved on our side

Wikipedians Bill Wedemeyer and Lennart Guldbrandsson at the NIH headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland.

In alphabetical order:

Core volunteer team

D.C. volunteers

WMF staff members

A special thanks goes to Jay Walsh, Wikimedia Foundation.

Other acknowledgements

A team of roughly 25 volunteers — scientists, physicians, science writers and librarians — volunteered to assist the NIH participants in their first steps of editing, not only on the day of the Academy, but in the weeks and months to follow. Their volunteering was recognized warmly by Marin Allen of the NIH in her opening remarks, and by NIH participants of all ranks throughout the day. Their gesture was taken as symbolic of the cordial relationship between the NIH and Wikipedia, and our heartfelt gratitude goes out to them.

Sseveral volunteers provided critical software for the workshop. Mr.Z-man produced "Popular pages" for several WikiProjects, which were highly praised by the participants. Cacycle made crucial improvements to his editor, wikEd, that made editing scientific and medical articles much easier by condensing references and long templates. Pyrospirit developed an extension of his article assessment script that allowed the NIH memebers to create their own lists of articles and assess their quality in batches. ClockworkSoul developed a powerful new version of his tool, Igor, for assessing and interacting with Wikipedia's articles and WikiProjects. Finally, TechSmith provided a free copy of their screencast software, Camtasia Studio, which was used to develop tutorials for the NIH participants.

Press release and press coverage

July 14, 2009

NIH and Wikimedia Foundation Collaborate to Improve Online Health Information (NIH press release)
NIH, Wikimedia to team on health info (Washington Times, Mark Kellner)

July 15, 2009

NIH, Wikimedia work toward better online health and medical information (iTWire, Steven Withers)
NIH and Wikimedia Foundation Collaborate to Improve Online Health Information (DOTmed News)

July 16, 2009

Wikipedia hosts forum to improve online health info (itnews for Australian Business, Liz Tay)
NIH and Wikimedia Foundation team up (Federal News Radio, interview with John Burklow, associate director for communications and public liaison at the NIH)

Twitter & Blogs

Twitter

Twittersearch #nihwiki – tweets about the event, including live tweets
Tim O'Reilly: “Awesome: NIH and wikimedia commons working together to improve quality of health info online […] HUGE step.”

Blogs

Welcoming medical research experts to Wikipedia (Frank Schulenburg, Wikimedia Foundation)
Wikipedia Training for US Health Department (Dana Oshiro, ReadWriteWeb)
Medical research experts on Wikipedia (Bertalan Meskó, Science Roll)
Shared Kismet: Wikipedia and the NIH (Susannah Fox, e-patients.net)

Citations

A good citation is like a god-class weapon on Wikipedia. (John Broughton)
As scientists it is our calling to provide knowledge to the world. I hope you answer that call. (Bill Wedemeyer)
An online encyclopedia can never replace the physician-patient relationship – that would be absurd. (Tim Vickers)
We hope to infect you with our enthusiasm. (Frank Schulenburg)

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 == Other acknowledgements==
-A team of roughly 25 volunteers — scientists, physicians, science writers and librarians — volunteered to assist the NIH participants in their first steps of editing, not only on the day of the Academy, but in the weeks and months to follow.  Our heartfelt gratitude goes out to them.
+A team of roughly 25 volunteers — scientists, physicians, science writers and librarians — volunteered to assist the NIH participants in their first steps of editing, not only on the day of the Academy, but in the weeks and months to follow.  Their volunteering was recognized warmly by Marin Allen of the NIH in her opening remarks, and by NIH participants of all ranks throughout the day.  Their gesture was taken as symbolic of the cordial relationship between the NIH and Wikipedia, and our heartfelt gratitude goes out to them.
 Sseveral volunteers provided critical software for the workshop.  [[User:Mr.Z-man|Mr.Z-man]] produced "Popular pages" for several WikiProjects, which were highly praised by the participants.  [[User:Cacycle|Cacycle]] made crucial improvements to his editor, [[User:Cacycle/wikEd|wikEd]], that made editing scientific and medical articles much easier by condensing references and long templates.  [[User:Pyrospirit|Pyrospirit]] developed an extension of his article assessment script that allowed the NIH memebers to create their own lists of articles and assess their quality in batches.  [[User:ClockworkSoul|ClockworkSoul]] developed a powerful new version of his tool, Igor, for assessing and interacting with Wikipedia's articles and WikiProjects.  Finally, [[TechSmith]] provided a free copy of their screencast software, [[Camtasia Studio]], which was used to develop tutorials for the NIH participants.