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#WTwiki

Tweet coverage of internal seminar on Wikipedia and the Wellcome Trust: how science, medical humanities, public engagement, and our organisation, might utilise, benefit and give back through Wikipedia.

  1. keatl
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 10:31:25
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  2. ayasawada
    Me too! MT @dannybirchall Looking forward to big internal WT wikipedia seminar today with @bnglaser, @matthewcock, @Alexbateman1 @oh_henry
    ayasawada
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 03:43:46
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  3. dannybirchall
    Looks like we have a full house for the wikipedia seminar.... is it the free lunch?
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 07:08:27
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  4. dannybirchall
    First up: Alex Bateman on the case for working with wikipedia. #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 07:14:11
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  5. dannybirchall
    Wikipedia: the death of the pub argument, says @Alexbateman1 #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 07:19:14
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  6. Bilkisbm
    RT @dannybirchall: If you don't get it right, someone else will fix it for you! -- @Alexbateman1 #WTWiki
    Bilkisbm
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 08:03:38
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  7. dannybirchall
    Watching Jon Udell's Heavy Metal Umlaut. Full film at http://t.co/RiLWUUN #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 07:24:35
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  8. dannybirchall
    Watching how quickly vandalism is reverted in wikipedia -- in 2 mins! #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 07:27:30
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  9. dannybirchall
    The Google factor... Wikipedia rules search results. #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 07:34:17
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  10. dannybirchall
    Next: @darrenlogan (inadvertently missed off my list if speakers earlier) on Biomedical Research and Wikipedia #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 07:37:04
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  11. dannybirchall
    2 factors ... 1) crowdsourcing the curation & annotation of scientific data - @darrenlogan #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 07:38:57
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  12. dannybirchall
    2) Public engagement & understanding of science - freely accessible information for a global audience #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 07:40:20
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  13. dannybirchall
    The Rfam database harvests, quality-assesses & updates wikipedia articles in an ongoing cycle. #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 07:42:21
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  14. dannybirchall
    The constituencies of article editors: Robots, scientists and proofreafers #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 07:45:21
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  15. AlxButterworth
    RT @dannybirchall: Gene Wiki: a project to create a wikipedia article for every gene in the human genome http://t.co/MAxc5lc #WTWiki
    AlxButterworth
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 08:19:18
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  16. pigsonthewing
    RT @dannybirchall: Gene Wiki: a project to create a wikipedia article for every gene in the human genome http://t.co/MAxc5lc #WTWiki
    pigsonthewing
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 07:52:53
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  17. dannybirchall
    As individual genes become more important in public consciousness, wikipedia is where people will look #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 07:54:12
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  18. dannybirchall
    Next up: @oh_henry with the story of how Cancer Research UK started a 'wikipedia academy' #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 07:55:58
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  19. dannybirchall
    Wikipedia is where patients and their families look for information about serious illness. #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 07:57:29
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  20. dannybirchall
    CRUK's project suddenly hit the news... whetted the internal appetite for working with wikipedia #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 07:59:38
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  21. dannybirchall
    So what followed? Monthly lunches where CRUK staff get together and edit wikipedia pages #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 08:01:00
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  22. dannybirchall
    Editing pages for readability - replacing clinical language with patient-friendly language (NOT dumbing down) #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 08:03:12
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  23. dannybirchall
    Adding links to patient resources. These were considered self-promotion until the rules were understood & the wp community engaged #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 08:04:49
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  24. dannybirchall
    (that tweet doesn't quite express the complexity of that issue) #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 08:06:21
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  25. dannybirchall
    Next steps for CRUK.... Rolling out to researchers. #WTWiki
    dannybirchall
    Thu, Sep 08 2011 08:07:50
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