Grants talk:IEG/The use of Wikipedia by doctors for their information needs
Request for more information
Hello! Thanks for proposing this. I am some questions.
- Could the research team please share links to information describing their past research which demonstrates experience doing anything like this project?
- It seems that the people organizing this research have little experience participating in Wikipedia culture. Could the proposers please describe their level of familiarity with the Wikipedia platform? Given that level of familiarity, could the proposers please describe any barriers to conducting their research that they expect to have, but that would not exist if they had deeper understanding of Wikipedia.
- What information gained from this project would be most useful to the Wikimedia community?
Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:11, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
Impact
Hi Richard!
I'm really curious how this research will impact Wikipedia. To the extent that you can figure out why more doctors don't edit and what we could do to change that, the more interested I'd be in seeing this funded.
There's also been a decent amount of prior survey research that has identified doctors using Wikipedia because it's free, fast, and easy to access, relatively complete and accurate (good enough for jogging memory or starting research), written in an understandable style. It'd be nice to see you review that literature and discuss how your survey will add to this understanding or deepen it.
One last thing, you should also notify WikiProject Medicine (http://enwp.org/WT:MED), which is a different group than Wiki Project Med Foundation.
Cheers! Ocaasi (talk) 22:16, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
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--Siko (WMF) (talk) 23:09, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
Payments to doctors
I think that you can better not make payments to the doctors themselves, but a donation to a charity of their choice (and hopefully they pick Wikipedia). Students will act on a cash handout, but established doctors must surely be immune to that as a motivation? I like the idea of a lottery prize though. I would assume one reason for doctors to prefer Wikipedia is so that their patients can easily view it as well, and even click the language option if English is not their native language. Generally patients go into a mild form of brain freeze when they hear a diagnosis, so if you can give them a name of something they can check out later, it will help them cooperate with their treatment. I think this research could yield very interesting results. Jane023 (talk) 19:08, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
Suitability of incentives
You only target senior doctors and you want to attract them with a lottery, seriously? is the "reimbursement" really only a reimbursement or also a token? How was the amount for advertising determined? What are the strong reasons to make an in-person focus group and why in another country?
I've recently read a demographic paper which used MySpace (!) ads to get thousands of respondents to an online survey. Ads are cheap and would attract hundreds or thousands responses, is what you plan to do really not possible to reduce to a survey (at least for this first step if you say there was no previous research)? --Nemo 07:14, 15 April 2014 (UTC)