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Welcome to the NIH WikiProject, a WikiProject dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of National Institutes of Health and to developing other Wikipedia articles with resources suggested or shared by the NIH.

Improve articles about the NIH

The NIH consists of many different divisions, hosts many projects, and is a base for many researchers. When these divisions, projects, and researchers meet Wikipedia notability criteria, then these things can have Wikipedia articles giving information about them and those articles should be developed.

Improve any Wikipedia article with NIH expertise

The NIH is a major repository of health information, including historical and cultural information about health topics as social institutions. Many Wikipedia articles unrelated to the NIH could be improved with the library, archival, and curatorial resources which the NIH freely shares with anyone.

Facilitate Wikipedian access to NIH resources

In order to achieve other goals of this project, Wikipedians need access to the resources of the NIH. Such access might include viewing NIH documents online or using any of the NIH-managed search engines to find information.

The NIH holdings are vast. Navigation of the collections is non trivial. WikiProject NIH seeks to serve the Wikipedia's community's needs by making it easier for Wikipedians who want NIH media resources to be able to access those resources for the purpose of developing Wikipedia content.

See also Category:National Institutes of Health.

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : NIH Office of the Director, Center for Inherited Disease Research, Center for Developmental Biology and Perinatal Medicine, Center for Research for Mothers and Children, National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research Cleanup : National Center for Biomedical Ontology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Center for Research Resources and National Institutes of Health articles needing attention Expand : Center for Scientific Review, Clinicaltrials.gov, Division of Intramural Research, John E. Fogarty International Center, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Eye Institute, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health campus, National Institutes of Health Police, Quality Assurance Review Center, Research Triangle Park, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center Featured article candidates : * This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot ( talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject National Institutes of Health articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options. No results were found. Featured list candidates : * This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot ( talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject National Institutes of Health articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options. No results were found. Featured sound candidates : * This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot ( talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject National Institutes of Health articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options. Project Content template contains the following errors: No content type parameters found Unable to generate results. See documentation for help Good article nominations : * This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot ( talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject National Institutes of Health articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options. No results were found. Geographical coordinates : National Institutes of Health articles missing geocoordinate data Infobox : National Institutes of Health articles needing infoboxes Stubs : Stub-Class National Institutes of Health articles Unreferenced : Unreferenced National Institutes of Health articles

Please feel free to add yourself to the below list and to indicate any areas of particular interest. Also if you want to note your participation on your user page, feel free to add this userbox by adding the {{User WikiProject NIH}} tag.

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Active participants

1. Bluerasberry ( talk · contribs) 16:01, 4 June 2012 (UTC) reply
2. Daniel Mietchen ( talk · contribs) 19:39, 13 July 2012 (UTC) reply
3. DGG ( talk · contribs) the bibliographic stuff
4. Jmh649 ( talk · contribs) · email) (if I write on your talk page please reply on mine) 05:18, 18 July 2012 (UTC) reply
5. lepetitpapier ( talk · contribs)
6. Klortho ( talk) 14:09, 27 September 2012 (UTC) reply
7. Hildabast ( talk) 18:49, 27 May 2013 (UTC) reply
8. Katiemariefunk ( talk · contribs)
9. DarylM_at_NCI ( talk · contribs) 18:12, 7 June 2019 (UTC) reply

Inactive participants

1. cmw4117 ( talk · contribs) (everything to know about NIH)
2. chantessy ( talk · contribs)
3. phamer ( talk · contribs)
4. Mike_Chelen ( talk · contribs), PubMed PubMed Central NICHD NCBI
5. LeeClark ( talk · contribs), (NIAMS IRP)
6. dmb000006 ( talk · contribs), Entrez
7. Edward130603 ( talk · contribs), NIEHS

Inside Wikipedia articles

1. {{National Institutes of Health}} should be placed at the bottom of the page of those articles which are high importance and inseparably associated with the NIH.
2. Category:National Institutes of Health should be placed at the bottom of the page of any article which features a subject which has any significant relationship with the NIH. This category places that article in a broad category-based classification system.
3. Template:HHS content for tagging articles incorporating public domain NIH content
4. Category:USGov copyright templates includes categories for tagging public domain images

On Wikipedia talk pages

• {{WikiProject National Institutes of Health|class= |importance=}} should be placed on the talk page of any article which is in Category:National Institutes of Health or any subcategory in that main category. This tag places that article into a sorting system describing the importance of the article's subject and the quality of the article.

For articles incporating content from NIH documents see

• Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Department of Health and Human Services
• Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the National Cancer Institute Dictionary of Cancer Terms
• Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States National Library of Medicine

• Garnett, Carla (2009). "NIH, Wikipedia Join Forces to Improve Online Health Info - The NIH Record -September 4, 2009". nihrecord.od.nih.gov. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
• Madrigal, Alexis (21 July 2009). "Wikipedia Teaches NIH Scientists Wiki Culture". wired.com. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
• Edit-a-Thon with WikiProject Medicine in May 2013
• edit-a-thon to improve coverage of women in science in Wikipedia
• 2018 National Library of Medicine
• Spring 2020 #citeNLM Edit-a-thon

Related projects

• Guidelines for Participating in Wikipedia from NIH