Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/NHS

About the event

Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, on the first day of the National Health Service, 5 July 1948 at Park Hospital, Davyhulme, near Manchester

This event is linked with the People's History of the NHS project, based at the University of Warwick. We'll be improving Wiki content related to the history of the National Health Service. Experienced Wikipedia editors and complete beginners are both welcome to attend - we'll provide training for anyone new to editing. Participants should bring a laptop or tablet (or request one in advance when you sign up) – editing is much easier with a keyboard. If you’ve spotted an article that needs improving, bring along your queries and we’ll see what we can do to help!

How do I prepare?

• Sign up for the event!
• Create a Wikipedia account (look at the top right of this page for the link). You don't need to do anything else, but it'll speed things up on the day if you've already signed up for an account.
• Bring a laptop (wifi will be provided), some laptops may be available - let me know in advance via email if you'll need to borrow one.
• Learn about editing if you like: see Visual Editor user guide for more information.
• Think about what you would like to edit about - you can even prepare some materials to bring with you on the day (to help with verifiability).
• Check out the notability guidelines and what topics can be written about on Wikipedia.
• Think about whether you have any conflicts of interest.

Participants

Participating wiki-editors can add their names here...

• jennifercrane
• LoopZilla (talk) 08:51, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
• Eartha78 (talk) 12:44, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
• I can't come in person this afternoon but will help out remotely. Andrew D. (talk) 13:02, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Content Improved/Created

Any content we improve or create will be listed here after the event...

Improved

• image added History of NHS Scotland
• Wikicommons categorisation added

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  Anenurin Bevan, Minister of Health, on the first day of the National Health Service, 5 July 1948 at Park Hospital, Davyhulme, near Manchester
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  Dr Alice Stewart with Edinburgh doctors and nurses. Beds Not Bombs
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  Nuclear war and the NHS poster, 1983
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  Protestors with poster about Trident and NHS, 1980s

Created

• Wikicommons images added

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  Your Health Service: How it will work in Scotland, 1948
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  National Health Service leaflet, May 1948

Inspiration for even more improvements

If you'd like to join us remotely or continue to edit after the event, there are plenty of improvements to make - we'll suggest some here soon!

- Suggestion from twitter - to add statistics about changing expenditure on NHS over time, from different political parties