Wiki Project Med/Annual plan 2019
Final working draft dated 19 February 2019.
Our work in 2019 will mainly build upon and consolidate the on-going work from 2018.
Inreach & outreach edit
Partnerships edit
Translation (metric: number of articles created).
- External: We will focus on maintaining the status quo with our external partners, such as Translators Without Borders.
- Internal: Expanding our contacts with Chapters who help or coordinate translation, such as WM Taiwan.
- Further improve words translated by TWB. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force/Resources#Stats
- Further improvements in Spanish content for Users of IIAB.
Internal edit
Outreach to at least 10 affiliates this year:
- Indian Chapter - distribution of the South Asia version of IIAB from within the country.
- Wikimedia Germany - more collaboration along the lines of the disaster management workshop (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Katastrophenschutz/Veranstaltungen/Workshop_zu_Wikimedia_und_Katastrophenmanagement_2018).
- Wikimedia UK - led by Doug connecting volunteers/staff from WMUK; and Sam to organise medical events and further collaboration.
- Continue collaborating with the Central Eastern Europe Wikimedia affiliates (CEE), again with the goal of attending their annual meeting, presenting and reaching out to specific chapters - Shani
- WM Taiwan - James will lead collaborations and look for new initiatives.
- Reaching out to the Wikipedia & Education user group - Shani.
- Reaching out to the Wikidata Community User Group - Daniel, Lane & Shani.
- Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana - Daniel to follow up last year's collaboration, especially around disaster management.
- Wikimedia Israel - Shani.
- Wikimedia Armenia - James & Susanna
VideoWiki (Pratik) edit
Wikimedia is a multi-media project and has the ability to deliver to its audiences in many formats. Text and static images have been used for several years now, but video has posed unique problems for its adoption, notably ease of creation and editing, and guarantees of verifiability. WPMEDF has been testing ways of achieving delivery of video content that meets these standards, and will continue to do so throughout 2019.
Now that we have a functional system of producing scripted videos that can be demonstrated, start to lay the foundations of gaining acceptance of this technology among the projects.
External edit
- Cochrane - WiR (Jenny)
- The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) - Shani & James
- World Health Organization (WHO) including World Hearing Day Edit-a-thon
- UNESCO - The University of Virginia is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and Daniel and Lane are happy to facilitate wiki activities under the UNESCO banner. We’re in touch with John Cummings over what’s possible. Shani will be presenting during Mobile Learning Week at UNESCO during March and will talk about Wikidata.
Education edit
By location:
- Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel
- University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA
- University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
- Touro College, New York City
- Other schools in the US
- Canada: Queen’s University
- Cochrane UK internship students (dates?)
- Taiwan
- Brasil
- Armenia
By other criteria:
- Development of Wikidata-aware curricula
- Working to create a userscript to guide users regarding common mistakes that they make https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_Med/Tech#User_script_to_help_with_education_efforts
GLAM edit
- National Library of Medicine: Continuation of work to run editathons. Working on “rare diseases” initially, more topics to be explored.
- Medical libraries to collaborate with?
- Claude Moore Library at UvA - Lane and Daniel are in touch with them, and they are interested in Scholia profiles around medical faculty/ topics/ journals
Conferences edit
Internal edit
- WikiConference Berlin 2019: JH
- Wikimania 2019: JH
- GLAMWiki in Tel Aviv: Shani
- CEE:
External edit
- CDC - disaster relief - ?
- eHealth - ?
- State of the Map - Daniel
- ECSA - Daniel
- Sage Assembly - Lane
- FSCI - Daniel
- Evidence Live - Jenny (Queen’s Wikipedia editing group)
- Rotary Club: Will have table in Spoken showing off IIAB.[1]
Others edit
- Blog posts about our efforts - Jenny will write one on the Queen’s Wikipedia editing group Education initiative (Dr. Heather Murray is doing this now). Presented at Evidence Live.
- Cochrane-UK editing initiative blog post.
- Wikimedia hackathon
- Wikimania hackathon
- A global edit-a-thon (in collab with whom, when, how long, around which theme / day) ?
- Perhaps best to jump on some global events/ *-a-thons, e.g.
- Autism Awareness Month (See last year's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_University_of_Virginia/National_Autism_Awareness_Month_2018)
- Mozilla Global Sprint
- https://foundation.mozilla.org/opportunity/global-sprint/lead-a-project/
- McMaster University National Health Ethics Week 2018 Wikipedia Editathon: 1 days event was a success in April: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/McMaster_University/McMaster_University_National_Health_Ethics_Week_2018_Wikipedia_Editathon (Jenny)
- Edit Description
- Cochrane Colloquium: Sept 2018. Jenny is running a 90 minute special session and a 90 minute wiki editing workshop (with Sylvia De Hann from Cochrane)
IIAB edit
- Collaboration with Rotary club to distribute in the developing world. Will be presenting at their big annual conference and will have a table.
- Collaboration with WMF/Africa Center moving slow
Metrics and development edit
We continue to develop metrics:
- Projects
- Number of editors, number of refs
- Userscripts -> possibly make use of the Google Summer of Code or Google Code-In
- Approaches to finding programmers
- Find funding
- Partner with social coding organizations
- E.g. https://socialcoder.org/
- Find volunteers in our networks
Wikidata edit
- Update Wikidata & Medicine project page
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Medicine
- prominent projects
- infoboxes (Doug has worked on Lua and internationalization)
- Charles Matthews + ContentMine (Doug big support)
- WikiCite project (Lane + Daniel)
- clinicaltrials.gov (Lane + Daniel)
- Build a Wikidata module for medical coursework
- Either as a component of medical Wikipedia-based coursework or
- As a new element to medical courses more generally
- Build some more medical WikiCite showcases like
- https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/topic/Q202864
- https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/topic/Q1436063
- Working on integrating more MeSH terms into Wikidata
- https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/group/medical
- Data models
- SDGs
- Starting with maternal mortality
- Clinical trials
- Grants
- Quality control for data models
- Via ShEx
Emergency response edit
- Held first workshop in Berlin in March
- Proposal for a follow-up workshop submitted for State of the Map
Expenditure edit
- $5000 USD for IIAB.
- $5000 USD for Tech development - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_Med/Tech
- $5000 general.
Fundraising edit
- $10,000 USD goal