Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Editor outreach/Delhi 2011

Wikimedia Canada as part of the Global Education Program and in collaboration with the Medical Education Unit of University College of Medical Sciences of India is working on organizing a half day workshop in New Delhi, India to discussion the significance of Wikipedia in medicine and how one becomes involved. Please post questions on the discussion page.

Date and venue
This event will be held on 1.11.11 (Nov 1) starting at 9 am at Conference hall, library block, UCMS & GTB Hospital. The breakout workshop will be held in the Medical Education Unit room on second floor of conference hall.

Presenters are

 * 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 1000th most prolific editors of the English site by edit count 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. 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.


 * Hisham Mundol leads the India Programs for the Wikimedia Foundation. This is a catalyst that seeks to increase participation (both access and editorial contribution) to Wikimedia projects in India. It encompasses efforts in both English and Indic language projects.

Presentations

 * A presentation given at McMaster and UBC. Feel free to reuse.
 * Videos of presentations given at UBC Oct 6th, 2011

Contact
For further details, contact Dr Satendra Singhat dr.satendra@gmail.com. All are invited for the lectures but only 20 pre-registered participants will be allowed for the break out hands-on workshop.

Signatures of participants

 * Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:05, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Dr Satendra (talk) 10:06, 2 November 2011 (UTC) contribs
 * Nikunj Mendiratta (talk) 15:53, 2 November 2011 (GMT) contribs
 * Parth NSY (talk) 13:42, 2 November 2011 (UTC) contribs
 * Navjeevansingh (talk) 15:39, 2 November 2011 (UTC)contribs
 * Amirkm (talk) 17:08, 2 November 2011 (UTC)contribs
 * Bhavesh contribs
 * Karambeer (talk) 06:21, 5 November 2011 (UTC) contribs
 * Siddharthchand (talk) 14:31, 5 November 2011 (UTC) contribs
 * drsumitrai (talk) contribs
 * Drparthnsy (talk) 07:30, 24 November 2011 (UTC) contribs

Sign up if attending
(To give us some idea of numbers)

The presentations are open for all but hands-on breakout workshop is limited to 20 participants. List of participants for Hands-on workshop (All from UCMS & GTB Hospital, Delhi):