Talk:Wiki Project Med/Archives/2014

London Wikimania Presentation

Hey all. Hoping to present at Wikimania in London regarding the work we are doing. If people here are interested in attending / helping out please sign up here [1] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:18, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

HIFA2015

en:Healthcare Information For All by 2015 has invited Wiki Project Med Foundation to be a supporting organization.[2] I am in favor of us doing this. There is no financial obligation. More of an acknowledgement of us supporting this goal and helping to work towards it.

• Support Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:20, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
• Support. Their aims align well with ours. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 17:26, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
• Support. Vinicius Siqueira (talk) 17:30, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
• Support. Great mission alignment. Ocaasi (talk) 17:54, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
• Support. Biosthmors (talk) 21:35, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
• Support. JFW (talk) 17:42, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support. Very worthy cause - we ought to be looking at regular collaborative projects. RexxS (talk) 01:43, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Summmary

As there is support application submitted. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:46, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

Translation from simplified English

Today I created a simplified / shortened version of all the articles involved in the w:en:WP:TTF as can be seen in the simplified column here [3]. They are basically a simplified version of the leads of the articles in question.

Some of the issues we were facing was that in the smaller languages of Wikipedia 1) there is often a limited vocabulary 2) readership may not want the same level of detail 3) less availability of volunteer translators 4) communities in these languages have a lessor ability to maintain content.

It is also superior from a public health perspective to translate a large number of small articles giving a general overview of many conditions than a few in-depth articles. It is also easier / better for us to fix up the leads of many English article, than the entirety of a few. If people fix up a lead of a specific article of general medical importance and wish to nominate it for translation please leave me a note on my talk page. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:09, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Wiki-Med in Israel

Contributors to Hebrew Wikipedia organized a health class using the education program extension to great success in developing medical articles in that language.

• on Wikimedia Foundation blog
• Hebrew language course page

Perhaps participants in this project should try to collaborate with this group in the future. Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:04, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks yes. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:41, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Official membership

Right now we do not have official membership. Wondering if anyone is interested in creating a more official method of keeping track of membership? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:41, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Evaluation

I haven't read much of it yet, but Programs:Evaluation portal/Library/Overview might have some ideas about how to self-evaluate your program to see where you can improve. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:19, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Which program? You mean WPMEDF generally or the Translation Task Force (TTF) specifically? 24.66.53.18 11:08, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

This group is a collective of independent volunteers who complete tasks together but are not managed centrally. If any evaluation happened it would be of any given individual volunteer's action. For the Wikipedia Library, the Wikimedia Foundation funds someone to do certain things in partnership with others, so evaluation makes more sense for that program because there is at least one lead organizer who is accountable for funding. It is difficult to recognize what could be evaluated here or what utility that would have. What did you have in mind? Blue Rasberry (talk) 11:54, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

I was thinking primarily about the TTF. I'm more interested in how well the group is supporting the translators (and other editors), and whether improvements could be made. Is anyone tracking numbers of editors, hours spent working, or the number of articles improved? Is the rate of translation going up or down? Is translation work being frustrated by any obstacles (like endless changes to the en.wp article)?

On a more general level, are new people being welcomed? Are editors being noticed or honored for their contributions? (I know that Doc James has some of this in the works.) Are group values (like MEDRS) being shared in practical but friendly and supportive ways with new editors? What's being done to promote a a sense of belonging to and achieving through the group rather than isolated, individual actions? (Lane, I think you'd find McMillan and Chavis's "Sense of Community: A Definition and Theory" from 1986 to be very interesting.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:03, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

All excellent points. We are tracking progress here [4] but have not put progress into graphs. Thus not sure if rate of translation is changing.

Translation is based on a single version of the English Wikipedia article and is done is a work doc. Thus ongoing changes since a specific date are not reflected in the base document.

We are just for the first time looking at editor numbers for medicine. Agree we need to do more to recognize those within our community who are doing amazing work. TWB has some good systems in place to motivate people. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:12, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Medicine Translation Project Community Organizing

I'd like to ask of you to take a look at a Wikimedia IEG grant a few of us over at Wikiproject Medicine as well as here are behind. You may likely have heard of the translation of medical articles that is being done (if not please take a look at w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Translation Task Force). The goal of the grant is to get the translation and integration process to run smoothly, and to assess which articles are the most important to translate. We've come far at w:Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Translation task force/RTT, but to get further we feel there is need for some form of organization, preferably by someone who can devote significant time to the task.

I'm very hopeful that I can provide real benefit with this grant, as there are so many articles on Wikipedia that could help people all over the world.
It's even more important when you take into account drives such as Wikipedia Zero, and readers who might not have access to any medical information at all can benefit.

Please take a look at the grant page: Medicine Translation Project Community Organizing, and add a comment or give your ideas on how we can best benefit the other Wikipedias.
Thanks, -- CFCF (talk) 21:19, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Paper advertisements

At London Wikimania 2014 the organizers are offering to make paper advertisements for people who request them. Wiki Project Med should propose something, right? I am not sure how these could be distributed but it would be nice to have a digital proof made for anyone to print themselves. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:56, 3 April 2014 (UTC)