Wikipedia:WikiProject Veterinary medicine/Editathon 20November2013

A pug reverse sneezing

Wikimedia UK, Jisc and WikiVet hosted a Veterinary Science Editathon at the Royal Veterinary College's Camden Campus in London, UK on the afternoon of the 20th November 2013. See the Wikimedia UK blog post and event page for background.

Target articles

Articles targeted for improvement include the Veterinary medicine stubs and Animal anatomy stubs.

Some sources

At the time of the editathon, there were 1362 Wikivet pages open to the public:

• 1st 200 (Abdominocentesis onwards)
• 2nd 200 (Buoyancy disorders onwards)
• 3rd 200 (Dirofilaria immitis onwards)
• 4th 200 (Haemophilus influenzae onwards)
• 5th 200 (Lymph Node Abnormalities onwards)
• 6th 200 (Pituitary Growth Hormone - Anatomy & Physiology onwards)
• The rest (Streptococcosis - Fish onwards)

• Google Books search for veterinary encyclopedias
• See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Veterinary_medicine#Resources

Users taking part on Wikipedia

A separate, smaller group were trained on and edited WikiVet in an adjacent room.

Experienced users/trainers

• User:MartinPoulter was the main Wikipedia presenter/trainer for the event.
• User:Mrjohncummings
• User:Chipmunkdavis
• User:HJ Mitchell

New users

(including two users with a small number of edits who had not edited for more than a year)

• User:Adamskilad901
• User:Janevetwik
• User:Ngg3
• User:Geoff Bombay
• User:Eoghan Clarkson
• User:Shorthovi

Articles edited

• Gasterophilus
• Dental caries (non-human)
• Moraxella bovis
• Talk:Melafix (user found deep problems with the sourcing of the Melafix article, and was advised, as a new user, to post on the Talk page rather than making big changes straight away)
• Schmallenberg virus
• Higher Education Academy
• WikiVet (edited by a non-member of WikiVet staff)