Grants:Project/Rapid/Mcbrarian/Wikipedia and Consumer Health/Report
Goals edit
Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? Yes. The study, although it took longer than anticipated, was successful. Publication of results forthcoming (August 2023)
Outcome edit
Please report on your original project targets. Please be sure to review and provide metrics required for Rapid Grants.
| Target outcome | Achieved outcome | Explanation |
| Number of total participants | 29 interviewed and compensated | Target was 25. |
Learning edit
Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:
- What worked well?
- Coding and qualitative analysis led to some interesting findings that support the body of knowledge around Wikipedia's role as a health information resource
- What did not work so well?
- Logistics of qualitative analysis were complex. For example, interviews were transcribed manually because participants had a broad range of accents that did not work well with auto-transcribe software
- I did not anticipate that the originally budgeted source of participant compensation (gift card) would not work well for international participants. International participants were provided with $25 cash transfer in lieu of a gift card. This approach came with the added cost of cash transfer/currency exchange fees.
- Learning to use NVivo was a steep learning curve.
- What would you do differently next time?
Get ethics approval for anonymized transcripts (raw data) to be stored in an open data repository. I didn't think to get this approval at the time of protocol development.
Finances edit
Grant funds spent edit
Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.
- Wikimedia Foundation Rapid Grant ($1654 CAD)
- Additional funding sources:
- The researcher accessed additional personal funds for the remaining balance.
- Expenses:
- NVivo $1,119.12 CAD
- Participant Compensation ($25pp) $816.15 CAD
- Recruitment $35.28 CAD
Remaining funds edit
Do you have any remaining grant funds? No
Anything else edit
Anything else you want to share about your project? The article will be published in FirstMonday, a diamond open access peer-reviewed journal. Smith, D. A. “I’m comfortable with it”: User stories of health information on Wikipedia. First Monday, 28(8). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i8.12897