Grants:Project/Rapid/Mcbrarian/Wikipedia and Consumer Health/Report

Draft report

This is a draft of a grant report for a grant funded for fiscal year 2017-18. Please do not respond or comment on it just yet: it's not yet ready for review. To read the approved grant submission, please visit Grants:Project/Rapid/Mcbrarian/Wikipedia and Consumer Health.

Goals

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

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

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

Grant funds spent

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

Do you have any remaining grant funds? No

Anything else

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