Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Scaling the Team, Tech, Reach, and Impact of Wiki Project Med Foundation (Wikimedia Medicine)/Final Report
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Part 1: Understanding your work
[edit]Per the recent update on the Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy process, Wikimedia Affiliates that are General Support Fund grantees will fulfill their affiliate reporting requirements through their final or yearly grantee report.
If you are a Wikimedia Affiliate, you will use this form for your affiliate reporting and to address the affiliate health criteria. You do not need to submit a separate report to AffCom. Follow the guidance in the green boxes to report on how you met the corresponding affiliate health criteria.
If you are not a Wikimedia Affiliate, aligning your responses with the affiliate criteria is optional and not required.
1. Please share to what extent your programs, approaches, and strategies contributed to addressing the challenges you shared in your proposal. If they did not contribute as you believed they would, please share what obstacles you faced and what, if anything, you learned from them? (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 1.) to address Affiliate Health Criterion 1.1 (Goal delivery). Describe how you actively delivered on mission goals, e.g. content creation.
In 2024, the Wiki Project Med Foundation implemented several programs and strategies to address the challenges outlined in their proposal, achieving notable progress across various initiatives. MDWiki was successfully added to the interwiki map, enhancing the accessibility of medical content across Wikimedia projects. Additionally, significant advancements were made with NC Commons, including the development of tools to import non-commercial images and collaborations with legal teams to clarify usage policies. These efforts expanded the reach and usability of medical resources for contributors and readers alike.
Offline access to medical knowledge was improved through innovative approaches. A new iPhone app, developed in partnership with Kiwix, enhanced the availability of offline medical content. The Internet-in-a-Box initiative was especially impactful, with all initial units selling out and a substantial waitlist demonstrating strong demand. This success highlighted the critical importance of offline solutions for underserved communities and emphasized the need for scaling production to meet future needs.
Translation efforts were another area of significant contribution. Volunteer translators created over 2,500 articles, with work taking place in 38 languages and reaching a global audience. These articles garnered more than 1.7 million views, underscoring the foundation's role in expanding access to medical knowledge worldwide. Outreach activities, including collaborations with organizations like ProZ, Translators Without Borders, and presentations at educational institutions, helped inspire broader participation in the translation initiative and strengthened its impact.
The foundation also made strides in multimedia and data collaboration. The revitalization of the VideoWiki platform introduced new functionalities, such as image annotation and effects, with plans to expand its use to other languages like Malayalam. Meanwhile, collaborations with Our World in Data proved highly successful, as images uploaded in 2020 received nearly 241 million page views across Wikimedia projects. These efforts exemplified the foundation's ability to leverage multimedia and data-driven partnerships to disseminate information effectively.
Despite these successes, the foundation encountered challenges that provided valuable lessons. The rapid sellout of the Internet-in-a-Box revealed the need for larger-scale production and distribution planning to address demand in 2025 and beyond. Additionally, resolving technical issues, such as image misordering, highlighted the importance of robust technical support and thorough testing to ensure smooth implementation.
Overall, the foundation’s initiatives demonstrated the power of partnerships, volunteer contributions, and innovative technology in overcoming barriers to knowledge access. These achievements underscore the importance of scalable solutions, proactive technical planning, and sustained community engagement to build on the progress made in 2024. Through these efforts, the Wiki Project Med Foundation continues to play a vital role in bridging knowledge gaps and improving access to reliable medical information, particularly in underserved communities.
2. Is there a plan to build on the key successes you had? If yes, please describe the plan and if no, please share the limitations to do so. For instance, did the activities lead to any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future? (required)
The Wiki Project Med Foundation has outlined ambitious and targeted plans to build on its 2024 successes, setting clear three-year goals that demonstrate its commitment to expanding access to medical knowledge, enhancing multimedia content, and fostering global collaboration.
A key priority is to integrate interactive Our World in Data (OWID) graphs into at least 10 languages on Wikipedia while developing workflows to ensure the material remains updated. This builds on the foundation’s successful partnership with OWID, making high-quality, interactive data more accessible to diverse audiences. Alongside this, the translation efforts will continue to grow, with a goal of increasing the number of active translators to over 250, expanding translated articles from 3,000 to more than 10,000, working in over 70 languages, and reaching a combined total of 10 million pageviews. To further support this expansion, the foundation plans to reengage with Translators Without Borders (TWB), bolstering its volunteer network and expertise.
The foundation also aims to increase the number of articles ready for translation from 3,000 to 4,000, providing a broader library of high-quality medical content for global use. Efforts to improve multimedia integration include building workflows for seamlessly incorporating content from NC Commons into Wikipedia languages that choose to adopt it. This initiative complements an ambitious goal to move 500,000 public domain images from NC Commons to Wikimedia Commons, ensuring they are viewable with tools like the CT scan viewer, which would significantly enhance access to medical imaging resources.
To address the high demand for offline access, the foundation plans to continue distributing the Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) through the Wikipedia Store. Meeting this demand may involve outsourcing assembly and customer support to scale production effectively. Additionally, the foundation intends to upload the entire collection of Khan Academy and TED videos to NC Commons, enriching educational content available through Wikimedia platforms.
The foundation’s innovative VideoWiki platform will also see further development. Collaborations with Basque Wikipedia will focus on video creation, while plans to introduce a text-to-video feature aim to make medical knowledge more engaging and accessible. A flexible calculator widget is also under development, with plans to test its functionality across multiple Wikipedia languages to provide users with interactive tools for medical calculations.
In academic and visual content, the foundation plans to publish a paper in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, documenting the outcomes of its multi-year collaboration on essential medicines. This publication would highlight the global health impact of its initiatives. Additionally, developing relationships to enhance medical illustrations will ensure that visual content remains a cornerstone of its educational efforts.
These clearly defined goals build on the foundation’s successes in 2024, emphasizing scalability, innovation, and strategic partnerships. With these initiatives, the Wiki Project Med Foundation is poised to deepen its global impact, bringing reliable medical knowledge to even more people worldwide and continuing its mission to bridge critical knowledge gaps.
3. Please provide a link to reports that detail the activities that took place in the last year. This can include an annual report, Meta pages, and websites. If there are no links available, briefly describe the implemented activities and programs below or upload any files. (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 3.) to address Affiliate Health Criteria 2.1 (Affiliate health & resilience), 4.1 (Internal engagement), 4.2 (Community connection), and 4.3 (Partnerships and collaboration):
- Describe your activities engaging new users, new members for your decision-making body(ies), and developing leaders and organizers (2.1).
- Describe your activities creating or hosting spaces to encourage greater collaboration and engagement among your members (4.1).
- Describe how you engage with the contributing community that you serve and/or support (4.2).
- Describe your partnerships with other affiliates or with non-Wikimedia entities (4.3).
AFFILIATE COMPLIANCE
- We supported new and existing contributors through translation projects and offline knowledge access.
- We achieved community engagement through tool development, partner outreach, and translation efforts.
- We wrote blogs on Diff to share our work with the public and inform potential participants.
- We sent the 'Cure Award' to top editors of health content across all languages of Wikipeda, including an invitation to join WPMEDF.
- We setup a leadership chat on Twist (like Slack) to discuss critical and emergent topics with modern forum features
- We have a Community Pump page on mdwiki.com which offers a space for collaboration and engagement among members.
- Active Partnerships: Translators Without Borders, ProZ, World Health Organization
- Our efforts supported engagement and content creation across diverse languages, regions, and populations, including women, neurodiverse contributors, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ communities.
- We had a specific focus on development and translation of Women's Health topics
- Solicited and responded to community feedback on MDwiki.org, as well as across dozens different languages.
- Engagement with the contributor community occurred largely through translation networks, partner organizations, and platform improvements.
- We engaged with the Wikimedia Commons community to improve tools (Crop tool, Image Annotation)
4. Are you interested in sharing what you achieved or learned this year with the wider community through different peer learning programs (e.g. Let's Connect program, Diff)? (optional)
5. Did you collect feedback from your community or target groups on how the activities implemented impacted them? If yes, please attach/provide information on the results (e.g. community surveys, stories, impact booklets/reports, interviews with partner institutions, etc). Did you collect other impact-specific data? (required)
For affiliates, the response to Question 5. also partially addresses Affiliate Health Criteria 4.1 (Internal Engagement), 4.2 (Community Connection), or 4.3 (Partnerships & collaboration), where applicable.
We did not collect explicit feedback. We have ample activities, products, partnerships, and metrics that demonstrate impact.
AFFILIATE COMPLIANCE
- While we have not yet done a formal member survey, we are planning one in Q3 of 2025.
6. During the fund period, did your efforts do any of the following? (required):
For affiliates, the response to Question 6. also partially addresses Affiliate Health Criterion 2.2 (Diversity balance).
- 6.1 Bring in participants from the following groups: women, people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, LGBTQ+ groups, speakers of minority languages, underrepresented geographical regions (ESEAP, LATAM, SSA, MENA, SA)
- 6.2 Develop content about the following underrepresented topics or groups of people: women, people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, LGBTQ+ groups, speakers of minority languages, underrepresented geographical regions (ESEAP, LATAM, SSA, MENA, SA)
- 6.3 Support the retention of: Partnerships, Editors, Organizers
7. What, if any, effective tactics or approaches can you share that worked well when dealing with the programs under points 6.1-6.3 that you selected? (optional)
Three of our eight Board Members are women. Additionally, Board Members are from Africa, Asia, MENA, not to mention Europe and North America. As a truly global organization, we rely on local/regional expertise with an emphasis on multilingualism. This pulls people in from all over the world. Also, our emphasis on offline knowledge access, addresses global disparities and this requires partnerships where that technology is critical.
8. If you developed partnerships, which of the following factors most helped you to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors (optional):
Permanent staff outreach, Board members’ outreach, Partners proactive interest
Part 2: Metrics
[edit]| Metrics name | Target | Result | Comments and tools used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of all participants | N/A | ||
| Number of all editors | N/A | ||
| Number of new editors | N/A | ||
| Number of retained editors | N/A | ||
| Number of all organizers | N/A | ||
| Number of new organizers | N/A |
| Wikimedia project | Target - Number of created pages | Target - Number of improved pages | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | ||||
| Wikimedia Commons | ||||
| Wikidata | ||||
| Wiktionary | ||||
| Wikisource | ||||
| Wikimedia Incubator | ||||
| Translatewiki | ||||
| MediaWiki | ||||
| Wikiquote | ||||
| Wikivoyage | ||||
| Wikibooks | ||||
| Wikiversity | ||||
| Wikinews | ||||
| Wikispecies | ||||
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
11. Did you set other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required): Yes
11.1. Other Metrics.
In your application, you outlined some other open metrics that you would like to measure. Please fill out the achieved results for each of the open metrics you defined.
| Other Metrics name | Metrics Description | Target | Result | Tools and comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language Empowerment | **MDwiki**
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3100 | 1 | |
| Global Access | **Wiki Med App**
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75000 | 1 | |
| Rich Content | **NC Commons**
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2000000 | 1 | |
Part 3: Skill Development / Capacity Building
[edit]12. Reflecting on your programmatic (external) and organizational (internal) work, did your grant support you to undergo any skill development that made a difference to your success? If yes, what skill was developed, and how did it lead to success? (e.g. received coaching on public speaking, attended training on nonviolent communication, hosted professional development conversations on leadership, learned and used a new tool for project management, etc.)? Can you share any materials? (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 12.) to address Affiliate Health Criteria 2.2 (Diversity balance) and 3.1 (Diverse, Skilled, and Accountable Leadership):
- Describe actions taken to prioritize gender balance in affiliate leadership, as well as any areas of diversity relevant to your affiliate's context (2.2).
- Describe the management, financial, or other leadership skills of your affiliate leaders. If you have a succession plan, please include it here (3.1).
- Describe any training or skill development (as outlined in the question above) (3.1).
- Incorporate into the annual report a disclosure of conflict of interests (if any) from the leadership (3.1).
The grant enabled the Wiki Project Med Foundation to develop and apply several key skills that directly contributed to its success in 2024. The successful translation of over 2,500 articles into 38 languages and their resulting 1.7 million views demonstrate the foundation's ability to cultivate and manage a network of skilled volunteers. By reengaging with Translators Without Borders and collaborating with institutions like ProZ, the foundation enhanced its capacity to recruit, train, and support a diverse group of translators, strengthening its global impact.
The technical innovations achieved—such as integrating MDWiki into the interwiki map, developing tools for NC Commons integration, and revitalizing VideoWiki with advanced functionalities—highlight the foundation's growing expertise in workflow automation and multimedia content development. These skills were instrumental in ensuring seamless content integration and user engagement across Wikimedia projects. Additionally, the development and scaling of the Internet-in-a-Box initiative required logistical expertise in product distribution and customer support, skills that will be essential as the foundation scales production in 2025.
The foundation also demonstrated advanced data analysis and collaboration skills in its work with Our World in Data. Successfully integrating high-visibility data into Wikimedia platforms and achieving approximately 241 million pageviews across 100 wikis reflect the foundation's capacity to handle complex data partnerships and leverage analytics to measure impact.
Overall, the grant supported the foundation in developing a range of technical, logistical, and collaborative skills, all of which were critical to its success in expanding access to medical knowledge and achieving its ambitious goals.
13. What is one capacity/skill area that you would like to focus on for the next year? And how do you plan to achieve this capacity? (required)
A skill we plan to focus on in 2025 is supply chain management for the Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) initiative. The success of this program in 2024, with the rapid sellout of the initial batch and subsequent high demand, has underscored the importance of streamlining production and distribution processes to meet growing needs efficiently.
To acquire expertise in supply chain management, we will collaborate closely with the Wikimedia Store team, leveraging their existing infrastructure and experience in handling global distribution. This partnership will involve outsourcing assembly of the IIAB devices to specialized manufacturers, ensuring consistent quality and scalability. We will also develop streamlined workflows for inventory management, order fulfillment, and customer support, drawing on best practices shared by the Wikimedia Store team. Additionally, we plan to engage external supply chain consultants to refine these processes and identify areas for optimization.
By combining the Wikimedia Store’s logistical capabilities with specialized training and external expertise, we aim to build a robust and scalable supply chain for IIAB. This will enable us to significantly expand production in 2025, ensuring that more communities worldwide have access to reliable offline medical knowledge.
14. If you have additional information or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. Use the space below to upload any additional documents that would be useful to understand your report.
For affiliates, also use this section (Question 14) to fulfill the Affiliate Health Criteria requirements.
- Describe and link to any public-facing documentation for affiliate governance, including affiliate leadership and membership with a breakdown of the demographics; how elections are conducted; how conflicts of interest are declared; and how decisions are made and communicated (2.2, 2.3, 3.1).
- Describe and link to any public-facing documentation for activities incorporating, promoting awareness about, or enforcing the Universal Code of Conduct in your affiliate's activities (3.3).
- Describe and link to any public-facing documentation for internal membership engagement, such as notes from your regular meetings and how you communicate to or involve your membership (4.1).
COI Policy: [3]
Election Policy: [4]
UCOC: [5]
Candid (formerly Guidestar): [6]
We promptly published our 990-EZ from the IRS for 2024.
Part 4: Financial reporting
[edit]For affiliates, also use this section (Part 4: Financial reporting) to address Affiliate Health Criterion 3.2 (Financial & Legal Compliance).
| Description | Planned / received budget for this category (USD) | Amount spent (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Personnel costs | 0 | 74712 |
| Operational costs | 40000 | 395 |
| Programmatic costs | 110000 | 58036 |
| Total General Support Fund | 130000 | 145000 |
| Other revenue | 20204 | 0 |
| Remaining funds from General Support Fund | N/A |
15. Please state the total amount spent from this fund in your local currency. (required)
145000 USD
16. Please provide an overview of the amount spent from this fund in the following budget categories in your local currency. (required)
- Operational costs: 395 USD
- Programmatic costs: 74712 USD
- Staff and contractor costs: 58036 USD
17. Did you have any other revenue sources (e.g. other funding, membership contributions, donations)? (required): Yes
- 17.1. Provide the total amount received from other revenue sources in your local currency. (required): 20204 USD
- 17.2. Provide the total amount spent from other revenue sources in your local currency. (required): 0 USD
18. Provide a financial report document which will provide the details of funds received and spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
- Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
- Report funds received and spent, if template not used.
18.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)
We shifted greater funds towards increasing our capacity to produce Internet-in-a-Box as demand for the devices turned out to be greater than we suspected.
19. Do you have any unspent funds from this funding?: No
20. Final confirmations (required)
- 20.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement? You must be in compliance with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement. In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the Wikimedia Foundation mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
- Yes
- 20.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
- Yes
- 20.3. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
- Yes
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