Wikipedia:Meetup/Cincinnati/Emerging Technologies Edit-a-thon 2022

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2022 National Nanotechnology Day Workshop

sponsored by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

As one of the web’s most visited reference sites, Wikipedia serves as a starting point for many non-scientists to learn about public health topics. Wikipedia is an openly editable resource, meaning that you can help fulfill NIOSH's outreach mission by improving the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia entries. During this training, attendees will learn the basics of how to edit Wikipedia articles and practice their skills with experienced Wikipedians.

This training and workshop is for NIOSH staff and invited experienced Wikimedians. It continues a series of National Nanotechnology Day workshops previously held in San Diego (2016), Cincinnati (2017), Columbus (2018), and virtually (2021).

NIOSH is the leading federal agency conducting research and providing guidance on the effects of engineered nanomaterials on worker health, and methods to control or eliminate exposures, through its Nanotechnology Research Center. NIOSH also created the Emerging Technologies Branch in 2019 to facilitate forecasting, identifying, evaluating, and developing guidance on potential hazards in new or emergent technologies.

Agenda

Dr. Howard says you should edit Wikipedia articles!

• Training and brainstorming (1 hour)
• Editing (3 hours)

Articles to look at

An aerosol droplet containing nanomaterials ejected from a vial during sonication. Eliminating or limiting sonication and other handling processes reduces inhalation hazards.

A scanning electron microscope image of bundles of multiwalled carbon nanotube piercing an alveolar epithelial cell.

Electron micrograph of silver nanoparticles

See Category:Nanotechnology and especially Category:Nanoparticles for more comprehensive lists.

Nanomaterials

• Silver nanoparticle (using the new NIOSH Current Intelligence Bulletin!)
• Metal oxide nanoparticles
  • Aluminium oxide nanoparticle
  • Cobalt oxide nanoparticle
  • Iron oxide nanoparticle
  • Titanium dioxide nanoparticle
  • Zinc oxide nanoparticle

Nanotechnology topics

• Health and safety hazards of nanomaterials
• Nanotoxicology
• Engineering controls for nanomaterials
• Characterization of nanoparticles
• Nanoinformatics

General topics

See WP:NORA for a list of articles by sector

• Workplace health surveillance
• Occupational risk assessment
• Workplace exposure monitoring
• Dust explosion

Other tasks

• Upload images!
• Use the Author Disambiguator tool to link publication items to their own item as an author.

Outcomes

Also see this event's dashboard.

Articles improved:

• Health and safety hazards of nanomaterials#Occupational exposure limits
• Carbon nanotube
• Characterization of nanoparticles
• Gig worker