Grants talk:TPS/zidovetz/offlinewikipediaingreece

Request not eligible for TPS

Dear zidovetz,

Thank you for applying for submitting this application. Making Wikipedia available to healthcare providers serving refugees is such an important and worthwhile goal. Unfortunately, this particular program (Travel and Participation Support) does not fund projects. We cover travel and accommodation for volunteers who are giving talks about Wikimedia projects at non-Wikimedian projects.

I am going to inquire with the Program Officer about another program (Rapid Grants) to see if this project is eligible there. I will get back to you by Monday with more information.

In the meantime, it appears that you are not an active volunteer on Wikipedia. I wanted to ask if you could provide more information about your activities as a volunteer, in case your work is offline.

Warm regards,

--Marti (WMF) (talk) 17:09, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

@Mjohnson (WMF): Sam will be offline for a while but I am assisting him. Here is a statement he gave at Wikimania -

Samuel Zidovetzki on physician access to info

Here are two articles describing his work with Wikipedia -

• Sharing Wikipedia offline medical information in the Dominican Republic, The Signpost
• Offline Wikipedia developed at Kiwix Hackathon 2017, submitted to The Signpost

Sam provided physician oversight to the public health team which did offline Wikipedia deployment to clinics and medical schools in the Dominican Republic. He presented at wm2017:Wikimania 2017 and attended the entire conference and deeply contributed expertise in the offline Wikipedia hackathon which followed.

I had advised Sam that a travel grant was appropriate because he is providing Wikipedia training at a non-Wikipedia event. As you say, Sam is not an editor, but his regular participation in health editing events in New York area Wikipedia events has been useful. At Wikimania he was present for all 8-hours of the medical track and participated in the conference generally for other times. I appreciate the expert attention he has been able to recruit from his home institution, Mount Sinai Hospital. I appreciate his consultation for Wikipedia editors, participation in Wiki events, being a spokesperson for Wikipedia use in clinics, and the commitment he made in this grant request to publish a field report about his outreach and how Wikipedia can be used in a crisis situation.

It is challenging for me to navigate whether to advise anyone to request "rapid grants", "travel grants", or use any other channel, but if you have intuition on what you would like to see from Sam's end to make his best case then let me know. For my part, I wish to make it easy for him to talk about Wikipedia's health content as publicly and with as many published records as possible to as many healthcare professionals as he can reach. This project is about increasing awareness of Wikipedia's medical content. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:17, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

Refer to Rapid Grants

Dear zidovetz,

It's great to hear about your background working in this area. Blue Rasberry 's comments were wonderful to read.

I have asked the other POs, as well as some of the WMF staff who follow offline Wikipedia options about your request and I do think that it is worth submitting to Rapid Grants. Please let me know if this still interests you and I can help you with this.

Warm regards,

--Marti (WMF) (talk) 16:39, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Dear Marti (WMF) (talk),

I would love assistance with applying to the Rapid Grants if both you and Blue Rasberry think that is the best way to proceed. Thank you so much, I am very excited about this work and the implications that WikiMedicine can have with the NGO and humanitarian aid community.

Here is the report I submitted re my recent field experience in Greece:

Greece Report Wiki

Sincerely,

-Sam

Yes Mjohnson (WMF) please provide guidance. By the documentation at Grants:Project/Rapid it is not apparent to me what information the WMF grants team would request that is not already provided here. Is this a matter of changing the label from "travel grant" to "rapid grant" on your side, or is there something to do on the user side? Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:53, 8 September 2017 (UTC)