Life Sciences students participate in the first ever National wikipedia edit-a-thon
Although nearly every researcher uses Wikipedia, very few contribute to it. Over the last few months we’ve been working to change that for researchers at the University of Melbourne: we recently ran a workshop teaching researchers how to make edits, and supported a local student group, COMBINE, who ran their first ever national Wikipedia edit-a-thon for computational biology postgraduate students.
The event was a massive success, with over 20 postgraduate and early career researchers attending the Melbourne event that #ResBaz helped coordinate. We were also joined by students from around the country via Skype, from various institutes in Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide.
This event was kindly sponsored by Australian Bioinformatics Network. The Melbourne event was further supported by the University of Melbourne Student Union, and the Graduate Student Association, and run in partnership by The Research Bazaar with COMBINE, and the Bioinformatics Graduate Student Association at the University of Melbourne.
