Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/UCSF January 2013 meetup

People at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine are selecting and improving important medical topics on Wikipedia to developing them up to a high-level of quality. More information about the collaboration between UCSF and WikiProject Medicine can be found here.

Lecture and editing sessions Jan 2013
Take the surveys!

Event times and locations – UCSF Map with Event Locations Marked
All events to take place at UCSF Parnassus, San Francisco 94143
 * Overview lectures Monday–Friday 12pm–1pm Various Locations (See Below)
 * Monday and Friday – Nursing Building, Nursing 217
 * Wednesday – Health Sciences West, HSW303
 * Tuesday and Thursday – Toland Hall – Within UC Hall at 533 Parnassus Ave
 * Hands-on editing sessions Monday-Friday 11am–3pm Nursing Building, Mezzanine
 * Article Sign-up Sheet

Presenters

 * James Heilman, MD, UBC Faculty of Medicine, Wiki. Med. 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 and has contributed thousands of medical images over the previous 5 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.


 * Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi), B.A. in Social Studies from Wesleyan university, Wiki Med. Board of Directors. Jake has been editing Wikipedia since 2007 with over 20,000 contributions to the site.  In addition to writing about international politics and alternative medicine, his work focuses in two main areas: engaging new editors and effectively orienting them to the site, and facilitating outreach between Wikipedia and likeminded organizations.  Jake has worked with hundreds of new editors through Wikipedia's online help chat, new article creation project, local editing events, and email response team.  He has written editing help guides, designed interactive instructional tutorials, and given talks about the history, culture, policies, and practices of Wikipedia.  A related focus of his is developing partnerships between Wikipedia and academic, scholarly research databases so that editors can access the best available resources for their work.

Surveys/Raffles

 * General Survey – Complete to enter raffle to win Kindle Paperwhite
 * New Editor Survey – Complete only if you have edited a Wikipedia Medicine article – Complete to enter raffle to win iPAD mini.

And the Winners of the Raffle are ...


 * New Editor – Robert Weber


 * General Survey Participant – Kaitlin Holander

Attended

 * Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 01:32, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Mike Turken (talk · contribs · email) (If I write on your page, please reply on mine.) 03:13, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll be in SF from the 6th through the 11th. Ocaasit &#124; c 20:03, 25 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Available for online assistance
 * Email me, contact me at my talk page on Wikipedia, and maybe I'll be in a chat room somewhere too.
 *  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   00:47, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Daniel Mietchen – WiR/OS (talk) 01:32, 27 December 2012 (UTC)