Wiki Project Med

Wikimedia medicine (WMMED) is a proposal to form a thematic organization first announced at Wikimania in 2012.

Mission

• Encourage health care providers to use Wikimedia projects and to adopt the values of free culture and open access.
• Or simply "health information for all in the language of their choice"
• Create and expand medical content on Wikimedia projects and to increase its overall quality in all languages.

Strategy

Wikimedia Medicine will fulfill its mission in the following ways:

1. Provide training to organizations and individuals so that they can contribute health content to Wikimedia projects
2. Create, collect, process, and present the sorts of metrics which describe usage statistics and quality of health content on Wikimedia projects

While Wikimedia Medicine members will always be welcome to contribute health content themselves, the scope of the work which the project seeks to complete can only be engaged if many health outreach programs all contribute their expertise to developing the content in their fields. The general practice ought to be that any health educator anywhere who is performing health outreach in any field ought to share their information on Wikipedia if any of their target demographic uses the Internet as a source of information. When such a health educator recognizes this, then that person ought to be able to contact Wikimedia Medicine and get appropriate training to enable them to share their information on Wikimedia platforms.

Name

We will be initially incorporating as Wiki Medicine if avaliable until we get authority to use Wikimedia Medicine from the WMF.

Domains

Have currently purchased the domains wikimediamedicine.com and wikimediamedicine.org

Scope and territorial overlap with national chapters

• The territory of activity is everywhere in the world where there are people interested in achieving our mission.
• Initially the organization will be placed in the USA but people from around the world can join.

Proposed board members

• James Heilman
• Jacob de Wolff

Process

chaptercommittee-l@lists.wikimedia.org

People interested

• Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:47, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
• Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 22:31, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
• Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:28, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
• Other editors interested