The Edit-a-Thon Will take place September 30th, 2014, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai The Wikiproject:Medicine team at Mount Sinai will be co-hosting with the Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Interest Group! The theme will be Emergency Medicine, so we will focus on articles related to emergency medicine! Feel free to attend, even if this not your domain of expertise.
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Event information
edit- Date: Wednesday, September 30, 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 13-80.
- What to bring: Laptop, Keyboard, Desire to expand the knowledge of mankind
- 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
- Mjbailey (talk) 01:40, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
- VivamusAmemus (talk) 010:22, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
- Salubrious Toxin (talk) 18:28, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
- Preston.atteberry (talk) 15:45, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
Tentative
Regrets
Online
Goals
edit- Learn about the state of emergency medicine articles on Wikipedia
- Learn about a topic of interest in emergency medicine
- Edit articles prioritized by Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Emergency medicine and EMS task force
- Preferred minimum of 5 edits and 1 citation per attendee
Sample Articles
editList of Emergency Medicine Health articles here
Resources
editEditing Wikipedia:
- Help:Cheatsheet
- 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