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NIH and Wikimedia Foundation team up – Part 2

Increasingly, people are getting health information online, and very few organizations have as much health information as the National Institutes of Health. NIH...

Federal News Network Staff

July 20, 2009 3:25 pm

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Increasingly, people are getting health information online, and very few organizations have as much health information as the National Institutes of Health.

NIH last week held a educational session with the team behind the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

The goal is to educate NIH employees about Wikipedia.

Frank Schulenburg is the head of public outreach for the Wikimedia Foundation — the non-profit behind Wikipedia — and he tells us how this meeting came about.

(Hear our interview with NIH.)