Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Research Fund/Freely accessible public health information: from wishful thinking to systemic solutions
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Philip Kopetzky in topic Feedback from Philip Kopetzky (talk)
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1. In what ways do you think this research can support you or other members of the Wikimedia communities in the work that you do on the Wikimedia projects?
- Providing information on public health in a local language is an important project that helps fight disinformation and can be used as a blueprint for future efforts in other communities where medical information is mostly available in a foreign language.
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- This has been a research topic for a while in regions where medical information is provided and taught in a foreign language, like the Middle East (English instead of Arab). There is a running MedWiki project on a similar topic that crowdsources medical information via Wikidata.
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- Romania is a good example of a country with a large population (19 million) that does not have public health information in the language spoken by the majority of the population, and would therefore represent a good opportunity to develop a more systematic approach to the provision of medical information.