User:Craig Hicks

About Me
My interest in online collaboration and communication has roots in the exhilarating low-bandwidth days of  dial-up bulletin board systems and  MOOs.

I launched the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) online service on America Online (AOL) in 1994, moderating science, health and engineering discussion boards and producing live chat events featuring guests such as Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist E.O. Wilson.

As the World Wide Web became increasingly commercialized (in other words, a more viable medium for reaching general audiences), the service transitioned from AOL to the NAS website, where I expanded its offerings to include interactive audio webcasts.

I now work as an electronic outreach strategist and science writer for organizations such as the National Institutes of Health.

I've been a Wikipedia reader since 2001.

Read more about me in my LinkedIn profile.

Wiki Resources

 * My Wikipedia sandbox
 * My Wikipedia contributions summary and edit count
 * Wikipedia Manual of Style
 * Style for medicine-related articles
 * Reliable sources for medicine-related articles
 * Words to avoid
 * List of commonly misused English words
 * How to copy-edit
 * How to edit a page, a short guide to wiki markup
 * Frequently asked questions about Wikipedia, with links to related FAQs
 * Community portal, a clearinghouse of news for the Wikipedia community and links to help pages
 * NIH Wikipedia Academy welcome page