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This Wikipedia meetup at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai invites medical students to improve the quality of Wikipedia's medical topics.

  • No commitment
  • Meetups are fun
  • Previous attendees say, "Wow, glad I came!"
  • Metrics say that Mount Sinai contributions to Wikipedia get read by large audience

Meetup goals for participants:

  1. Edit a medical article on Wikipedia, for example a condition or symptom.
  2. Become comfortable assessing quality of a Wikipedia article.
  3. Quantify how many people are reading the article you are editing.
  4. Presentation summarizing what was accomplished.