Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support for Wiki Project Med Foundation 2023

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General Support for Wiki Project Med Foundation 2023
start date2023-01-01
end date2025-12-31
budget (local currency) 
amount requested (USD)0 USD
grant typeWikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)
funding regionunknown region
decision fiscal year2023-24
funding program roundundefined round
applicant and people related to proposalJames Heilman Doc James Stuart Ray Soupvector
organization (if applicable)Wiki Project Med Foundation

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Applicant details[edit]

Wikimedia username(s):

James Heilman Doc James

Stuart Ray Soupvector

Organization:

Wiki Project Med Foundation

G. Have you received grants from the Wikimedia Foundation before?

Applied previously and did not receive a grant

H. Have you received grants from any non-wiki organization before?

No

H.1 Which organization(s) did you receive grants from?

N/A

M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?

No

M1. Fiscal organization name.

N/A

Additional information[edit]

R. Where will this proposal be implemented?

United States of America

S. Please indicate whether your work will be focused on one country (local), more than one or several countries in your region (regional) or has a cross-regional (global) scope:

International

S1. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

T. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has. (optional)

https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

https://videowiki.wmcloud.org/en/ https://mdwiki.toolforge.org/Translation_Dashboard/index.php https://nccommons.org/wiki/Main_Page https://owidm.wmcloud.org/ https://twitter.com/WikiProjectMed

M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?

No

M1. Fiscal organization name.

N/A

Proposal[edit]

1. What is the overall vision of your organization and how does this proposal contribute to this? How does this proposal connect to past work and learning?

Our vision is to make clear, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date educational resources and information in the biomedical and related social sciences freely available to all people in the language of their choice online and off.

2. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important?

We are working on many aspects of the transfer of knowledge chain, from developing engaging content, to translation of said content into other languages, to addressing the last mile in hard to reach locations.

3. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

With respect to developing engaging content, we are working to increase multimedia functionality within the movement. Some of our efforts involve include NC and ND licensed content within articles through the creation of NCCommons.org, adding interactive graphs via a partnership with Our World in Data and the mirror of their work we have created, working on software that allows collaborative creation of video from a mediawiki based script, developing a javascript viewer for CT and MRI images, and working to develop medical calculators.

With respect to translation of content, we have relaunched our medical translation efforts that began back in 2012 in collaboration with Translators Without Borders, moving the source of the translation to MDWiki and bringing on new partners such as ProZ.com.

With respect to the last digital mile, we continue our app development in collaboration with Kiwix, and continue to develop and ship Internet-in-a-Box globally.

4. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

We are looking to hire developers to push forwards the above described efforts. Some specifics include a developer for VideoWiki to roll out the software in further language versions of Wikipedia and add templates that activated automatic animation generation. Funding for further technical support for the roll out of Our World in Data in Basque and to make the graphs multilingual. Further javascipt development of the CT scan viewer to make it flow smoothly and add a scroll bar.

5. Do you want to apply for multi-year funding?      

Yes, for 3 years

5.1 If yes, provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan?

We estimate that the efforts described above will take multiple years to acheive.

6. Please include a timeline (operational calendar) for your proposal.

7. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

The plan would be to hire two developers to support this work.

8. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Language

8.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.

Much medical content only exists in English and other large European languages. Over the last 10 years our translation efforts have resulted in thousands of articles and millions of words of text being translated into other languages.

9. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.

Education, Open Technology

10. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Please note, we had previously asked about inclusion and diversity in terms of CONTENTS, in this question we are asking about the diversity of PARTICIPANTS. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Geographic , Linguistic / Language, Digital Access

11. What are your strategies for engaging participants, particularly those that currently are non-Wikimedia?

We are partnering with a number of external organization to achieve the proposed goals including Our World in Data and ProZ.com

12. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants and promoting the UCOC and Friendly Space Policy, and/or equivalent local policies and processes?

We have a code of conduct at Wiki Project Med Foundation https://mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:Code_of_conduct

13. Do you have plans to work with Wikimedia communities, groups, or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal?

Yes

13.1 If yes, please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal.

Our translation efforts are currently taking place in at least 10 languages of Wikipedia https://mdwiki.toolforge.org/Translation_Dashboard/leaderboard.php

VideoWiki has been functional at one point in time in 17 languages of Wikipedia https://videowiki.wmcloud.org/en/

14. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal?

Yes

14.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.

We are working with Internet Archives, with them offering to provide data storage for NCCommons.org to allow us to more sustainable grow.

We are working with ProZ.com regarding the recruiting of translators and project management of the efforts.

We are working with Our World in Data to make the grapher more multilingual.

15. How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant?

Our hope is to further develop OWIDM and bring it through the code review process such that it can move to production servers and be used by all languages of Wikipedia.

16. What kind of risks do you anticipate and how would you mitigate these. This can include factors such as external/contextual issues that may affect implementation, as well as internal issues, such as governance/leadership changes.

Difficulty finding and hiring coders who can do the work.

17. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of three options that most apply.

Improve User Experience, Innovate in Free Knowledge, Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt

18. Please state if your organization or group has a Strategic Plan that can help us further understand your proposal. You can also upload it here.  

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]

19. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?


20. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following space provided.

Main Metrics Description Target
N/A N/A N/A
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Here are some additional metrics that you can use if they are relevant to your work. Please note that this is just an optional list, mostly of quantitative metrics. They may complement the qualitative metrics you have defined in the previous boxes.

Additional Metrics Description Target
Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities N/A N/A
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities N/A N/A
Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability N/A N/A
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors N/A N/A
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees N/A N/A
Number of people reached through social media publications N/A N/A
Number of activities developed N/A N/A
Number of volunteer hours N/A N/A

21. Additional core quantitative metrics. These core metrics will not tell the whole story about your work, but they are important for measuring some Movement-wide changes. Please try to include these core metrics if they are relevant to your work. If they are not, please use the space provided to explain why they are not relevant or why you can not capture this data. Your explanation will help us review our core metrics and make sure we are using the best ones for the movement as a whole.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants N/A N/A
Number of editors N/A N/A
Number of organizers N/A N/A
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
N/A N/A N/A
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21.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

N/A

22. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected?


Financial Proposal[edit]

23. & 23.1 What is the amount you are requesting from WMF? Please provide this amount in your local currency. If you are thinking about a multi-year fund, please provide the amount for the first year.

 

23.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

0 USD

23.3 Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

23.4 Please include any additional observations or comments you would like to include about your budget.

N/A

Please use this optional space to upload any documents that you feel are important for further understanding your proposal.

Other public document(s):

Final Message[edit]

By submitting your proposal/funding request you agree that you are in agreement with the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct.

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

No

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