The Edit-a-Thon Will take place month day, 2014, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The Wikiproject:Medicine team at Mount Sinai will be hosting! The theme will be healthcare and the LGBT community, so we will focus on articles related to LGBT+ Health. Feel free to attend, even if this not your domain of expertise.
Event information
edit- Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2014
- Time: 6:00pm - 8:00 pm
- Location: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in the Annenberg Building, 1468 Madison Avenue (at E. 101st Street). Annenberg Room 13-44.
- What to bring: Laptop
- Participants: Open to the public. New and experienced editors are all welcome. The room capacity is 25 people.
- Other info: Food will be provided.
Attendees
editPlease add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below.
Confirmed
- Salubrious Toxin (talk) 12:37, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
- Mjbailey (talk) 18:37, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
Tentative
Regrets
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Goals
edit- Learn about the state of LGBT + Health articles on Wikipedia
- Edit articles prioritized by WikiProject LGBT studies and WikiProject Medicine
- Minimum of 5 edits and 1 citation per attendee
Sample Articles
editList of LGTB Health articles here
Resources
editEditing Wikipedia:
- Help:Cheatsheet
- LGBT articles that need improving
- WP:MEDRS about referencing
- WP:MEDMOS about language usage and ordering of sections
- WP:MEDHOW about formatting refs
- WP:MEDSECTIONS on the suggested format of a health article
Secondary source, review articles available here:
- NEJM
- American Family Physician
- National Institute of Clinical Excellence
- Cochrane Collaboration
Results
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New articles created
Articles expanded, improved, cleaned up
Wiki-Metrics used to trace User participation