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This is a report of activities of Wiki Project Med Foundation for 2019. 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.
Collaborations
Cochrane
Translation efforts
While efforts are ongoing, our ability to track the number of articles translated is limited and would required technical support.
The University of Virginia contributed to health translation efforts in all of its projects.
World Health Organization
In 2019 we continued to collaborate with the World Health Organization around Essential Medicines. This resulted in the eEML being released under a CC BY 3.0 license and including links to Wikipedia.[1]
National Institutes of Health / Center for Disease Control
- We have collaborated with NIOSH, WHO International Society of Audiology among others to host a World Hearing Day Edit-a-thon on March 3 2019. Received some press.[2][3]
- NNML edit-a-thon[4][5]
Universities
- Edit-a-thon at McMaster University Library in Collaboration with Cochrane.[6]
- University of Virginia
- Scholia, a tool for browsing Wikicite
- Foundations of Wikipedia health publishing in India
- WikiProject Clinical Trials at Wikidata
- Touro College
Rotary club
We have begun working with Rotary International. In early 2019 they purchased 50 units of Internet-in-a-Box to distribute to their projects in India. Discussions are ongoing regarding further efforts.
Video
Wiki Project Med Foundation is involved in both coordinating develop of and funding for VideoWiki.
- Aug 29th 2019 Slate VideoWiki Challenges Wikipedia’s Traditional Text Focus
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
In 2019 the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute appointed user:FULBERT as their first Wikimedian in Residence.
- PCORI Annual Meeting 2019, Wednesday and Thursday 18-19 September 2019
- January 2019 wiki party - January 2019
The organization funded a 2018-2020 project titled, Integrating Patient-centered Outcomes Research into Wikipedia: An Initiative to Increase Capacity and Build Partnerships.
Wikimania
- Coordinating Health space at Wikimania in Sweden. This included more than a dozen talks over 2.5 days.
Video cut tool
Video cut tool was developed as part of a GSoC and launch in 2019 / 2020.
Event and short-term project collaborations
- Program for Cooperative Cataloging, May 2019 event
Outreach
Conferences
- Global health in the age of open access information, a February 2019 presentation at the National Federation of Advanced Information Services
- Wiki Loves Pride, a June 2019 wiki editing event at Metropolitan Museum of Art was a general New York City-based event for LGBT+ topics and featured local health organizations promoting LGBT+ health editing
Publications
- Brezar, Aleksandar; Heilman, James (2019). "Readability of English Wikipedia's health information over time". WikiJournal of Medicine 6 (1): 7. doi:10.15347/wjm/2019.007.
Content distribution
Internet-in-a-Box
In 2019 we shipped 80 devices. We have also fully transitioned to shipping 128 Gb versions that generally contain all of English Wikipedia among other languages (rather than just medical content).
We have been working with the WMF and Africa Center on a project to look at the utility and feasibility of IIAB in Nigeria. We have finished the project and are now analysing the data.
Awareness
Administration
Membership
Annual Plan
Application to become a Thematic Organization
Elections to the Board
Financials
Income
Expenses
- (Tech) Feb 17th 2019 $80 USD payment to User:Fz-29 for writing a bot for moving references out of infoboxes on Wikipedia (as they break the translation tool)
- (IIAB) Feb 24th 2019 $2885.40 CAD payment to HiPi industries for Raspberry Pi Zero W boards (160 units)
- (Tech) May 5th 2019 $580.00 USD payment towards programming costs of VideoWiki (to User:Hassan.m.amin)
- (Tech) May 30th 2019 $850.00 USD payment towards programming costs of VideoWiki (to User:Hassan.m.amin) via Preetam Hegde/Pratik Shetty
Assets
Previous reports
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