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Wikimedia UK in combination with Wikimedia Canada and the Global Education Program organised a study day at a UK University Teaching Hospital regarding the editing of Wikipedia's medical content and how more people can get involved.

Friday August 31st, 2012

The Clinical Sciences Building at University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry CV2 2DX.

Registration was free and captured via a page here.

Morning:

• Introduction to WikiProject Medicine JFW | T@lk, acute medicine registrar in London and founder of WikiProject Medicine. Editor and administrator since 2004.

• Why Wikipedia is important and what you can do to help (Dr James Heilman, UBC Faculty of Medicine, Wikimedia Canada Board of Directors)

• Where's the Evidence? Intro to Evidence-Based Medicine and a look at some of the resources included in WP:MEDRS and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Resources
  • The Digital Detective Helga Perry, Electronic Systems & Resources Librarian, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust)
  • TRIP Database (Jon Brassey, Co-Founder of TRIP)
  • Critical Appraisal using the CASP Checklists (Petra Meeson, Knowledge Skills Librarian, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust)

Afternoon: Hands-on Wikipedia editing, facilitated by experienced editors.

Presentations

• Dr James Heilman, UBC Faculty of Medicine, Wikimedia Canada Board of Directors. He is an active editor and administrator on the English Wikipedia involved primarily with Wikiproject Medicine. He is one of the top 500 most prolific editors of the English site by edit count^[1] and has contributed hundreds of medical images over the previous 4 years. In 2009 he was involved with promoting and protecting Wikipedia's right to contain images in the public domain.^[2] In 2011 in collaboration with 18 other medical editors he published a peer reviewed article in the Journal of Medical Internet Research calling upon his peers to join in as editors.^[3][4]

• JFW | T@lk, acute medicine registrar in London and founder of WikiProject Medicine. Editor and administrator since 2004.^[5] Co-author of the JMIR paper.^[3]

• Jon Brassey from TRIP delivered a presentation.

Workshops

A hands-on opportunity to edit medical content on Wikipedia with experienced editors present for questions/comments.

Afterwards

Post-Wiki Gathering at the Red Lion, Ansty Road, Coventry CV2 2EY - close to the hospital. Good value for money pub grub, real ales etc.

• James Heilman --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:43, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Helga Perry Sharkli (talk - contribs) 06:47, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• JFW | T@lk 19:13, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Experienced Wikipedians on hand included User:RexxS, User:MistyMorn, User:MartinPoulter and others.

Some users who created accounts during the day are listed below. Some users did not manage to create an account, and edited as IPs. One user made a typo while naming her account, and since she had not made any edits, she was advised to create another, correct account when next at her home or work computer. There were about twice as many people in the afternoon session as there were computers, so some people observed the process of editing but did not create accounts or edit themselves.

• User talk:Kleblond82
• User talk:Poopathy Sris Allan
• User talk:Meenagowri
• User talk:GUmedicine
• User talk:Venice999
• User talk:Nasmall
• User talk:Abrown02
• User talk:Wedza
• User talk:Micani1000
• User talk:Pjsimpso82
• User talk:Alisonclare
• User talk:Lysfas
• User talk:Emmaallan
• User talk:Weymoor