Wikipedia:Meetup/Kansas City/CiteNLM Mental Health November 2019

Event information

 * Event Title: Kansas City's #CiteNLM Mental Health Edit-a-thon
 * Date: Wednesday, November 20 2019
 * Time: 3:00pm – 6:00pm CST
 * Location: Kansas City Public Library's Waldo Branch, 1201 E. 75th St; Kansas City, MO 64111
 * Host institutions: Kansas City Public Library National Network of Libraries of Medicine
 * Edit-A-Thon Organizer:Kim Gile.
 * Event pages: | Facebook event, | The Kansas City Public Library calendar listing

Details
Join the national #CiteNLM movement in Kansas City with this Wikipedia edit-a-thon! You will learn about Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, the anatomy of a Wiki article, and how to contribute to the Wikipedia movement.

We will focus on developing articles that focus on mental health.

What to bring: - limited laptops will be available but please bring a laptop and a power cord if you are able.

No Wikipedia experience necessary; training session at 3:30pm. To participate you don’t need specialized knowledge of these topics or of Wikipedia. Please create a free user account on wikipedia.org before the event. There will be plenty of reference material and a limited number of laptops available.

Register
Please RSVP to our facebook event page so we can have enough refreshments, here.

Join the edit-a-thon in person or virtually here.

NLM Resources to use to expand articles

 * Medline Plus
 * PubMed
 * Genetics Home Reference
 * World Health Organization

Resources to learn about editing Wikipedia

 * Introduction

Results

 * Dashboard