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Past Editathons

#citeNLM Spring Edit-a-thon 2020

#citeNLM Spring Edit-a-thon 2019

We had our first in-person edit-a-thon in the form of a MLA '19 Immersion Session called "Elevating Health Equity Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon." The session described the importance of Wikipedia as a resource for health information and how librarians can utilize their research skills to make Wikipedia a better evidence-based resource. In planning for the session, we also eliminated the year from the hashtag that we ask participants to use and decided not to conduct a WebEx session to support virtual participants. The edit-a-thon took place on Monday, May 6th, 2019 from 2:00pm-3:25pm CT. According to our outreach dashboard, there were 42 articles edited, 134 total edits, 54 editors, 6.98k words added, and 410k article views: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/National_Network_of_Libraries_of_Medicine/Spring_2019_Edit-A-Thon/home

#citeNLM2018 Fall Edit-a-Thon

This session focused on Women's Health and was held on Wednesday, November 7th, 2018. During the tracking period from 10/3/2018 to 11/7/2018, 18 articles were created, 204 articles edited, 705 total edits, 50 editors, 27.7k words added and 3.45m article views. The WebEx room for instruction and support on the day of the editathon was staffed from 10am to 8pm EST. We asked users to add their name to this project page. And like the previous edit-a-thon, users were asked to register on a dashboard to track stats: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/National_Network_of_Libraries_of_Medicine/NNLM_Edit-a-thon_-_fall_2018/

Finding a Women's Health Topic

With so many woman's health-related topics, how do you choose? Wikipedia has a quality scale. C-class, Start-class, and Stub-class articles will probably the easiest to revise. You can find descriptions of all the different classes here. Below is a tabulation of all the articles by quality and importance. It may be helpful in finding a topic to edit.

Assessment stats

Women's health articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	3	1	2	1			7
GA	6	6	7	12		1	32
B	37	55	108	141		33	374
C	23	64	192	322		190	791
Start	11	50	192	505		352	1,110
Stub	1	2	52	254		186	495
List	4	2	11	25		3	45
Category				1	280		281
Disambig					2		2
File					4		4
Project			1		12		13
Template					111		111
NA	1	3	8	14	68		94
Other					26		26
Assessed	86	183	573	1,275	503	765	3,385
Unassessed						15	15
Total	86	183	573	1,275	503	780	3,400

Women's Health Resources

Overview of Women's Health Resources - Selected women's health resources from NLM, NIH, and other trusted sources

#citeNLM2018 Spring Edit-a-Thon

This webinar focused on rare diseases and was held on Tuesday, April 17th, 2018. During the tracking period from 3/29/2018 to 4/29/2018, 7 articles were created, 111 articles edited, 736 total edits, 32 editors, 43.5k words added, and 838k article views. The WebEx room for instruction and support on the day of the editathon was staffed from 9am to 9pm EST. A pre-recorded video was played at the top of every two-hour shift, and the final two hours featured OCLC Wikipedian-in-Residence Monika Sengul-Jones. Users were asked to register on the following dashboard to track stats: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/National_Network_of_Libraries_of_Medicine/NNLM_Edit-a-thon_-_Spring_2018/home'

In preparation for our first edit-a-thon, we had a free webinar from 2:00-3:00pm EST with Dr. James Heilman (Doc James) as he discussed and gave a demonstration on how to edit Wikipedia. You can find the recording here

Rare Diseases Instructions

Browse GARD (Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center) to find some potential diseases to edit. Search for these diseases on Wikipedia. Rare disease entries are often incomplete. Look at this entry for Kabuki Syndrome for instance. The box that is centered on the top of the article states that it has insufficient inline citations. This makes it a good candidate as an entry to update.
Once of you selected a suitable entry, read through the article, paying close attention to inline citations. They will be in superscript like the inline citation attached to this sentence.^[1] Are there statements or facts that lack a citation? Are there citations that reference unreliable sources? Update it using information from one of many National Library of Medicine resources!
Click on the Edit source tab on the right side of the page (located in between "Read" and "View history"). It will take you to an editor.
You can scroll down to find the text or use Ctrl + F to find text. Click the cursor so it is blinking on the immediate right of the period.
In the editor toolbar, there should be a Cite tool. If you click on it, a set of tools will appear directly in the row before. The first tool is a dropdown menu that says "Templates." If you click on it, it will give you a number of citation options: cite web, cite news, cite book, and cite journal. Since we're are updating this entry with information from online NLM resources, you will click on cite web.
Fill out the Title, URL, Access date, Website name, and Publisher. Also, fill out the Ref name with a unique identifying name of your choice. This will allow the reference to be reusable.
Last but not least, before you Publish changes, it's good practice to add a brief description in the Edit summary section just below the text editor. Be sure to add the #citeNLM2018 hashtag.

Primary Reference List

Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center - Find articles to edit using this as a reference tool

Prior standalone events

^ "Wikipedia:Inline Citation". Wikipedia. Retrieved 22 March 2018.

[inline-1] "Wikipedia:Inline Citation". Wikipedia. Retrieved 22 March 2018.

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