WMMED/Reports/2018

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This is a report of activities of Wiki Project Med Foundation for 2018. It is not a complete list of everything we have done this year but represents a highlight of our work. The compiling of this report — like much that we do — has been a group effort, and we encourage involvement by further individuals within the wider membership.

We continue to see a lot of activity via this partnership. Jennifer Dawson has joined the board of Wiki Project Med Foundation and is also the Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane (part-time). Activities include edit-a-thons and events, student training sessions, and encouraging Cochrane groups and centers to engage with Wikipedia by sharing evidence and through translation efforts.

Due to issues with Content Translation version 1.0 and 2.0, translation efforts have slowed. Enrique Cavalitto, now fully retired, is rejoining use to hopefully get things moving again.

WHO has moved to a CC BY SA NC license unfortunately. They have tentatively agreed to possibly release some material specifically so that Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) can use it.

NNLM ran an Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in the spring focusing on improving rare diseases (dashboard). Another is going to be run in the fall focusing on women's health.

Blog posts about our collaboration with NIOSH

• Expanding and Improving Occupational Safety and Health Content in Wikipedia. It Matters.

• The Powerhouse: Students’ contributions towards expanding and improving occupational safety and health content in Wikipedia

• Tel Aviv University: Efforts at Sackler School of Medicine continued for the fifth year in the Israeli Med Program with 33 med students participating in the Wiki-Med elective course. 66 new articles were published on Hebrew Wikipedia. In addition, a second WikiMed elective has opened for the first time in the American Med program at Sackler. The elective, which began in 2017, spreads over 2 year, with the hopes of students doing some related research in their second year of the elective. This elective is run with the support of WikiEd, and in collaboration with Dr. James Heilman, Dr. Amin Azzam and the the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE). During the Israeli Wiki-Med course 2 videos were produced: One hosting Dr. Jenny Dawson, Wikimedian-in-Resident at Cochrane, and the other hosting Dr. Daniel Mietchen, focusing on Wikidata an medicine.
• UCSF: In collaboration with WikEdu Foundation we continue to support the medical electives at UCSF School of Medicine
• University of Virginia - the University of Virginia coordinates various Wikimedia projects including those related to health and medicine.
• Wikimedia Armenia has been working with the Medical School in Yerevan this year! They have a very lively Facebook Group "Wikimed Armenia".

We have begun working with Rotary International. This has included giving talks at local meetings in Cranbrook BC and providing IIAB for a project in Myanmar.

The Data Science Institute at the University of Virginia appointed Lane Rasberry, bluerasberry, as Wikimedian in Residence in March 2018. In this role Rasberry is committed to continued collaboration with Wiki Project Med as he has done in his former role as Wikimedian in Residence at Consumer Reports from 2012-2018. His projects included coordinating the Cochrane Collaboration-Wikipedia Initiative/Article and citation matching research 2018, developing d:Wikidata:Scholia to better integrate Wikimedia projects with PubMed and other academic publications, and participation in Wiki Project Med initiatives including Medical School outreach and Internet-in-a-Box development.

Collaborations with Osmosis ended in 2018 following concerns raised by a number of Wikipedians. These concerns include 1) that Osmosis is a commercial entity, 2) that the videos do not have inline references 3) that they contain a couple second logo at the beginning 4) that they are not easily collaboratively editable. While some of the issues can be easily addressed changing Osmosis to an NGO and making the videos easy to edit are not.

For the third year running the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services (SBU) has employed a Wikipedian in Residence (WIR) during the summer. The goals have been writing content on the Swedish and English Wikipedia, based upon high quality sources such as meta-analyses and systematic reviews — as well as running workshops and spread information about Wikipedia within SBU.

In late 2017, a joint article was penned by Ragnar Levi, chief medical editor at SBU and Carl Fredrik Sjöland (WIR): Wikipedia används – och dess texter om hälsa behöver förbättras (Wikipedia is used — and its articles on health need improvement)

In November 2018 the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit nongovernmental organization receiving some government funding, posted a call to hire a full-time Wikipedian in Residence for a one year term beginning in February 2019. In this role the Wikimedian in Residence will seek to integrate health information from PCORI into Wikipedia.

Zidovetz and bluerasberry of Wiki Project Med Foundation visited this organization in September 2018 to discuss collaboration.

We have been supporting the development of VideoWiki. The goal is to make video easy to collaborative edit. This year the project moved to an open license and has migrated to Wikimedia Foundation servers.

• Wikimania 2018 South Africa July 21st, 2018 members of WPMEDF organized a track specifically geared towards medicine
• 2018 WGEA Regional Conference, March 24-27, 2018 in Denver, Colorado, Poster Presentation: Editing Wikipedia for Medical School Credit – Analysis of data from seven cycles of an elective for fourth-year students (Mihir Joshi)
• CUGH Global Health Conference, March 16-18, 2018, New York (Sam Zidovetzki)
• Geneva Health Forum in 2018 (in collaboration with Kiwux, WMCH, and WMFr)
• National Network of Libraries of Medicine (introductory lecture March 2018)
• Wikipedia: Its Impact on Research and Medical Discovery, a June 2018 presentation with National Federation of Advanced Information Services
• International Summit in Human Genetics and Genomics September 2018

• Apollonio, DE; Broyde, K; Azzam, A; De Guia, M; Heilman, J; Brock, T (20 November 2018). "Pharmacy students can improve access to quality medicines information by editing Wikipedia articles.". BMC medical education 18 (1): 265. PMID 30454046. doi:10.1186/s12909-018-1375-z. 
• Tackett, S; Gaglani, S; Heilman, J; Azzam, A (22 April 2018). "The reCAPTCHA of medical education.". Medical teacher: 1–3. PMID 29683009. doi:10.1080/0142159X.2018.1460463. 

• PCORI meetup September 2018

The Wiki Project Med/App currently exists in ten languages with a larger and smaller version avaliable in English. Efforts are ongoing to develop offline apps in more languages. Growth of installs of the smaller EN version are strong. Installs of the large EN version have plateaued at about 60,000. Other version such as Fr have also plateaued. Though we continue to see growth in the use of the stand alone Arabic version.

This year we launched a version specifically geared towards South Asia which generated some press within India.[1] A version was created in collaboration with Stanford for a specific project in Uganda. Near the end of 2018 we moved to 128 Gb micro SD cards (allowed as a result of falling prices for the cards) and have begun duplicating the micro SD cards in house. We received a donation of 500 3D printed boxes from Tarek Loubani which will further help to keep costs down.

At Wikimania 2018 in South Africa we donated devices in support of a number of partners including:

• Wikimedia Bangladesh (Nurunnaby Hasive)
• Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece (Mina)
• Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana (Mompati)
• WikiAfrica (User:Anthere)
• Padman Africa (Chaste Inegbedion)
• African College of Commerce and Technology (ACCT), Kabale, Uganda (Fabian von Bubnoff)
• Wikimedia South Africa (Michael Graaf)
• Prior Sinenjongo high school student (Sinombongo)
• Wikimedians of Nepal (Nabin Sapkota)

Devices have also been used in a number of project including Maluk Timor (July 2018).

We continue to generate stats around Wikipedia and medicine. This year the work has been mostly done by User:Edgars2007.

This includes the top editors to Wikipedia's medical content who were awarded barnstars to recognize their work.

• Medical editors are translating labels and descriptions of medical items on Wikidata into their native language, in the context of their medical training. This helps them consolidate the terms, while adding value to the medical content on Wikidata, especially in minor languages (read more here).

• Wikiproject Med launched on Greek Wikipedia in July 2018 (see here)

• The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines has been fully translated into Greek. Efforts are in progress to have important minor-language content available on Wikipedia linked to the WHO global site.

• 59 new members joined us throughout 2018.
• We have fine-tuned our membership admission procedure, including a welcome email and an "automatic" addition to the mailing list.
• A new decision was made to track members yearly and as of 2019 a new membership form will be sent out to all members so that we have better tracking of our users per year.

• For the first time we've been working on an organized annual plan to be deployed during 2019.

• On July 15 2018 we have applied to become a Thematic Organization. We have yet to receive a resolution from AffCom.

• The end of 2018 marks the end of the term for 5 members of the board. We are preparing for elections in early 2019.

• Donations via Paypal: $US 10,138.19
• IIAB via Paypal: $US 1,500.00
• Donations via Bank: $US 896.11
• Total Paypal: $US 11,638.19
• Total: $US 12,534.30

• IIAB: $US 3924.68
• Paypal fee: $US 53.96
• Bank fee: $US 42.00
• Total: $US 4,020.64

• Bank accounts: $US 854.11
• Paypal: $US 8,012.12
• Total: $US 8,866.23 (up from $US 352.57 in 2017)

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