Wikipedia:Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/librarian training January 2016

Librarian Training
When and Where

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Where:	Levy Library
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Staff at Levy Library at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are hosting a private meeting for staff to participate in Wikipedia training.

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Goals

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Participants in the training will develop the following skills:

Be more able to present positive and critical perspectives about the place of Wikipedia's health content in the digital information environment
Basic Wikipedia editing
Basic social media communication through Wikipedia - in particular, be able to direct a question to the medical forum in Wikipedia

Agenda

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Before the training

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Highly recommended Be ready to bring to the event an academic paper or other reliable source of information to cite in support of the information you will add to Wikipedia. You will use Wikipedia to distribute information from this source. Try to bring the highest quality most reputable source you can find for the information.
Create a Wikipedia account, if you do not have one already.
After creating a Wikipedia account, please register for the event by joining the program
If you wish, take Wikipedia's own 30-minute online training and tour at The Wikipedia Adventure.

At the training

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0:00-0:05 - Introductions

0:05-0:10 - Review of action plan - (1) identify fact to share and source to cite (2) identify a relevant Wikipedia article into which to place that fact (3) place fact into article

0:10-0:45 - Participants will have the Wikipedia editing experience; demos and support are offered mostly to individuals

0:45-1:00 - Break, group discussion, demos

1:00-1:45 - Wikipedia editing

1:45-2:00 - Wrap up

2:00-3:00 - Experience is ended, however, this padded period is available if anyone wants to talk further or edit more

Beginner guides

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The Wikipedia Adventure - a 30-minute tutorial for beginners
WikiProject Medicine - Anyone editing health articles is invited to ask questions and get personal support at this forum
Articles for Creation - a guide for a starting a new article
Wikipedia:Teahouse - a forum to ask any question and get a human response

Links

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