Wiki Project Med/Board/Annual plan 2018

Towards our March meeting: A discussion of an annual plan

Topics identified as important for WP:MED to engage in:

Content improvement edit

Translation (number of articles created). We have Enrique rejoining use to lead efforts in Spanish. Users of IIAB are requesting improvements in Spanish content.

Outreach edit

Partnerships edit

Internal edit

Outreach to at least 3 chapters this year (decide which ones). I will be meeting with the Indian chapter in Berlin regarding efforts around IIAB. One of their members is planning on taking on the role of distribution of the South Asia version from within the country. Am also in discussions with the Malayalam community about developing an offline medical app in their language

External edit

  • Cochrane
  • The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE)
  • World Health Organization (WHO) -> meeting with folks from WHO in Geneva in April
  • Translators Without Borders (TWB) -> Lots of unrealized potential
  • Osmosis -> Osmosis is going to begin distributing IIAB through their online store aswell
  • Unesco..?

Education edit

  • Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel
  • University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA
  • Other schools in the US
  • Taiwan ?
  • Brasil ?
  • Armenia
  • Ireland
  • Others ?

GLAM edit

  • National Library of Medicine: JH meet with them in early March. They are gearing up to run editiathons. Looking at working on “rare diseases” initially. Hoping to make this a long term effort.
  • ? (Any medical library we should aspire to collaborate with)?

Conferences edit

Internal edit

  • WikiConference Berlin: JH
  • Wikimania: JH
  • Wiki Arabia: JH (pending visa possibilities)
  • CEE ?
  • GLAMWiki ?

External edit

  • Geneva Health Forum
  • CDC - disaster relief
  • eHealth
  • ?

Others edit

  • A global edit-a-thon (in collab with whom, when, how long, around which theme / day) ?

IIAB edit

  • ?
  • ?
  • ?

Metrics / DEV edit

  • We are need of programmer. How do we go about finding one.
  • Number of editors, number of refs
  • Userscript -> currently up for the Google Summer of Code

Wikidata edit

  • Update Wikidata & Medicine project page
  • ?
  • ?

Emergency response edit

  • ?
  • ?
  • ?

Fundraising edit

  • 10,000 USD goal