Overview

• AM
• A year in review
• Lightning talks (10 min each)
• Lunch (12:30 to 2pm)

• PM
• Cochrane update
• New editor experience
• Internet in a box
• NIOSH partnership
• Board meeting (open to all)

WikiProject Medicine

A Year in Review 2017

James Heilman

MD, CCFP(EM), Wikipedian

A little about myself

• Small town ER doc
• Some academic affiliation but a long way from my University (~800 Km)
• Became involved in 2008 after coming across a poor quality medical article
• An active volunteer ever since

What we have done in 16/17

• Stats
• Infobox update
• Translation efforts
• Medical apps
• Internet-in-a-Box
• UCSF

• Videos
• Comparison of WP
• WHO
• Licensing
• Other collaborations
• WPMF

Stats

• Article numbers: 155,805 across 255 languages (2013) -> 197,909 across 279 languages (2017) [27% increase]
• Pageviews: ~6.5 B (2013) -> ? (2017)
• >60% of readership from mobile
• Editors: 274 (2013) -> 270 (2015) [2% decrease]
• 3rd most active WP after MilHis and WomRed (2nd most watched)

Reference numbers

Our Community’s Health

Infobox update

Collaborations

Medical Translation Project

Two article tracks

• Full
• Brought to GA/FA
• 2,500-10,000 words
• Goal: 100 (33)

• Short
• 3 to 4 paragraphs
• Leads of English articles ~750 words
• Goal: 1,000 (871)

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• Translation
• 100+ languages
• >5 million words
• Value ~$1 million

Example article

Why is this needed?

• Poor access to information plays a major role in many negative health outcomes
• More than half of people from Africa said that a friend or family member could have been saved if they’d had information in their own language
• Many in all parts of the world believe fluids should be withheld if their child has diarrhea
• Issue: Little health care content exists in most languages

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European: German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, Swedish

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• 2014 Outbreak in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria
• The most used internet site in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea for Ebola
• Greater than CNN, CDC and World Health Organization
• Content available in 115 languages
• ~100M pageviews in 2014

Ebola

Translation efforts

• Working on the leads (~40 million pageviews)
• Vaccine campaign
• 23 essential meds
• Women’s health campaign
• ~50 articles
• Video captions ~800 translated

Words Translated by TWB

• 2012 1,046,849 words, value $209,370
• 2013 1,922,202 words, value $384,220
• 2014 906,006 words, value $181,201
• 2015 539,631 words, value $107,926
• 2016 966,243 words, value $193,249

Total 5,380,931 words, value $1,075,966

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Wikimedia Taiwan

• Started fall 2014
• National Taiwan University College of Medicine
• Using a combination of Facebook and Hackpad
• Translated >50 short articles into Chinese in a short period of time

Feedback from a student

“Participating in this project changed my perspective on knowledge. In finding a balance between using precise professional terms and common words to explain a medical condition, I learned a lot. It has helped me to have better communication with my patients”

Aaron Huang

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Employee

• Lucas Rosnau
• Mostly supporting translation
• 392 hrs (2015) -> 221 hrs (2016)
• Has returned to teaching

Language Champions

• Oriya (33 million native speakers)
• Small community of 25 editors (5 plus edits)
• Subas Chandra Rout
• >700 articles translated

By Biswarup Ganguly

CC BY SA

• Built in collaboration with WMCH/Kiwix
• Includes diseases, anatomy, sanitation, physiology, dentistry, and medication content
• 1.2 Gb (4.2 Gb with videos)

The App

• Overall rating of 4.7
• >200 k of downloads for android
• 10 language versions
• ZIMs in other languages but no apps yet

• “Brilliant. Wikimedia, by providing these very useful contents for free and in such a simple and easy to use app, you are serving humanity.”

EN

AR

FR

Reach (Current active installs on Android)

• ENWP
• 43% US
• 10% UK
• 7% India
• 5% Canada
• WP
• 75% Global North

Internet-In-A-Box

• Provides Wikipedia offline
• Allows ~ 30 people to connect
• Being installed / trialled in a number of locations
• Allows viewing and downloading of the medical apps
• Includes other resources

UCSF

• 6th and 7th groups of students since we started in 2013 (22 and 8)
• Co-supported with Wiki Ed Foundation
• Pharmacy students as well
• Other schools also involved include Sackler (Israel), Rush

Interest from the wider community

• Paper published in the journal Academic Medicine "Why medical schools should embrace Wikipedia: Analysis of final-year medical student contributions to Wikipedia articles for academic credit at one school" under a CC BY SA 4.0 license
• Dr. Amin Azzam (Hewitt Foundation 20% time) to engage medical schools with Wikipedia
• Developing a 2 year elective by Shani Even for medical students (starting September 2017)

Student editing Wikipedia as part of “service learning”

• Part of psychology class
• 20 hours required
• Details signed off by WPMEDF

Osmosis

• Started in late 2015
• More than 240 short animated videos (5-10 minutes) on key diseases
• 5.5 million video views
• Released under a CC BY SA license
• Subtitles being translated into other languages

Better than UpToDate for Medical Students

• Students given a quiz (30 min)
• Access to one: UpToDate, textbook, Wikipedia (30 min)
• Retested (30 min)
• Those who used WP had greater increase in scores
• WP had better search and interlinking
• Another paper found Residents rank WP highly and as one of their most visited sites

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Future research

Q: How much does the packaging of content affect peoples assessment of its reliability?

Methods: Take a WP article and make it appear like the BMJ and vise versa. Give pairs of these articles randomly to academics to review using the DISCERN score

Licensing

• International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) -> switched the licensing of their encyclopedia to CC BY SA
• World Health Organization -> WHO Bulletin now CC BY SA and released the EML as well

NIH/CDC

• The NIOSH/CDC has hired two part time WiR
• James Hare
• John Sadowski
• We had a week of talks at the NIH this last Nov.
• NIH has provided “peer review” to SCA lead
• NCI people are working on Wikipedia content

Cochrane

• Excellent continued commitment
• Have hired a part time WP editor
• Increase in editors adding Cochrane reviews
• Tool tagging reviews in need of updating working well
• Jenny will speak more about this collaboration

Wikiversity Journal of Medicine

• Started in 2014
• Open access medical journal hosted on WV
• 21 articles published following formal peer review * 2
• “Second Journal of Science” launched
• User Group recognized
• Pubmed indexing and a new sister project?

Price of medications

• Added pricing of essential meds
• Both developing and developed world
• Prices stable over time
• Good sources to support content
• Experienced some pushback

Membership

• 146 members (May 2016) -> 164 members (Jun 2017)
• Participants from more than 30 countries
• Successful board election this year

Awards to top editors

Medication dosing

• Frequently requested
• Current position is we do not include
• Should we?
• Include as subpage of treatment section?
• Semi protect all the pages?

A Chance for Questions