Medical Translation Project

Final Report

Where we are, and where we're headed

Summary edit

The culmination of our efforts in 2014 were our translations of articles on Ebola into 42 (NUMBER NOT UP TO DATE) different languages

Reallocated resources: By having a dedicated community organizer we've been able to free certain editors from work here so that they can do work where they're able to have the biggest impact.
New goals:Our project has changed dramatically in the period of the IEG. We've moved from a focus on translating into a few in-depth articles into large languages to:
Growth:
- More languages: We increased the number of languages the project has provided content for from 47 to into by
- More articles:
  - To be translated:
  - Translated:
- More topics:
  - Health
  - Sanitation

- Integrators:
- Community organizers: One of the heavier roles we've built
Documentation:
- Guides:
- Learning patterns: TO COME
Simplification
- Google docs: We transitioned from using clunky Wiki mark-up tables to google-docs to enable more users to get involved in the tracking and integration of articles. Previously this had been a major issue for non-technical Wikipedians.
- Template simplifications: Not all Wikipedias have access to the most common templates used when writing about medical or health subjects. For example the en-wiki Infobox Disease has a number of complicated or superfluous functions that we stripped to enable importing the templates on a massive scale.
- Automatic article checker
Reallocated resources: By having a dedicated community organizer we've been able to reallocated

Methods and activities edit

As with any community organization project the goal has always been to get more users involved with improving the project. Also, because the project is on such a massive scale a significant time was spent getting up to speed with how things have been done, and how they can be improved. We identified hurdles and stops which gave What did you do in project?

Please list and describe the activities you've undertaken during this grant. Since you already told us about the setup and first 3 months of activities in your midpoint report, feel free to link back to those sections to give your readers the background, rather than repeating yourself here, and mostly focus on what's happened since your midpoint report in this section.

Outcomes and impact edit

Outcomes edit

What are the results of your project? We helped spread and translate content into Please discuss the outcomes of your experiments or pilot, telling us what you created or changed (organized, built, grew, etc) as a result of your project. I worked to identify hurdles and things that blocked the progress of the project, finding and trying to remove roadblocks. This resulted in us:

Starting to collect proper data on translated articles (Article stats – Language stats)
Moved tracking to google docs
Creating proper, detailed documentation

These efforts allowed us to scale the project and for the translation of articles into xx new languages, including over 50 articles on Ebola translated together with Translators Without Borders.

Progress towards stated goals edit

Please use the below table to:

List each of your original measures of success (your targets) from your project plan.
List the actual outcome that was achieved.
Explain how your outcome compares with the original target. Did you reach your targets? Why or why not?

Planned measure of success (include numeric target, if applicable)	Actual result	Explanation

Think back to your overall project goals. Do you feel you achieved your goals? Why or why not?

Global Metrics edit

We are trying to understand the overall outcomes of the work being funded across all grantees. In addition to the measures of success for your specific program (in above section), please use the table below to let us know how your project contributed to the "Global Metrics." We know that not all projects will have results for each type of metric, so feel free to put "0" as often as necessary.

Next to each metric, list the actual numerical outcome achieved through this project.
Where necessary, explain the context behind your outcome. For example, if you were funded for a research project which resulted in 0 new images, your explanation might be "This project focused solely on participation and articles written/improved, the goal was not to collect images."

For more information and a sample, see Global Metrics.

Metric	Achieved outcome	Explanation
1. Number of active editors involved
2. Number of new editors
3. Number of individuals involved
4. Number of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages
5. Number of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects
6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects

Learning question: Did your work increase the motivation of contributors, and how do you know?

Indicators of impact edit

Do you see any indication that your project has had impact towards Wikimedia's strategic priorities? We've provided 3 options below for the strategic priorities that IEG projects are mostly likely to impact. Select one or more that you think are relevant and share any measures of success you have that point to this impact. You might also consider any other kinds of impact you had not anticipated when you planned this project.

Option A: How did you increase participation in one or more Wikimedia projects?

Option B: How did you improve quality on one or more Wikimedia projects?

Option C: How did you increase the reach (readership) of one or more Wikimedia projects?

Project resources edit

Please provide links to all public, online documents and other artifacts that you created during the course of this project. Examples include: meeting notes, participant lists, photos or graphics uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, template messages sent to participants, wiki pages, social media (Facebook groups, Twitter accounts), datasets, surveys, questionnaires, code repositories... If possible, include a brief summary with each link.

Learning edit

The best thing about trying something new is that you learn from it. We want to follow in your footsteps and learn along with you, and we want to know that you took enough risks in your project to have learned something really interesting! Think about what recommendations you have for others who may follow in your footsteps, and use the below sections to describe what worked and what didn’t.

What worked well edit

What did you try that was successful and you'd recommend others do? To help spread successful strategies so that they can be of use to others in the movement, rather than writing lots of text here, we'd like you to share your finding in the form of a link to a learning pattern.

Your learning pattern link goes here

What didn’t work edit

What did you try that you learned didn't work? What would you think about doing differently in the future? Please list these as short bullet points.

Other recommendations edit

If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please list them here.

Next steps and opportunities edit

Are there opportunities for future growth of this project, or new areas you have uncovered in the course of this grant that could be fruitful for more exploration (either by yourself, or others)? What ideas or suggestions do you have for future projects based on the work you’ve completed? Please list these as short bullet points.

Think your project needs renewed funding for another 6 months?

Part 2: The Grant edit

Finances edit

Actual spending edit

Please copy and paste the completed table from your project finances page. Check that you’ve listed the actual expenditures compared with what was originally planned. If there are differences between the planned and actual use of funds, please use the column provided to explain them.

Remaining funds edit

Do you have any unspent funds from the grant?

Please answer yes or no. If yes, list the amount you did not use and explain why.

If you have unspent funds, they must be returned to WMF. Please see the instructions for returning unspent funds and indicate here if this is still in progress, or if this is already completed:

Documentation edit

Did you send documentation of all expenses paid with grant funds to grantsadminwikimedia.org, according to the guidelines here?

Please answer yes or no. If no, include an explanation.

Confirmation of project status edit

Did you comply with the requirements specified by WMF in the grant agreement?

Please answer yes or no.

Yes

Is your project completed?