Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Quality of Male and Female Medical Content on English-Language Wikipedia (ID: 22187880)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Hydra_Rain
- Organization
N/A
- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
N/A
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Main Proposal[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Quality of Male and Female Medical Content on English-Language Wikipedia
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2023-09-01 - 2023-11-30
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Canada
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Other (please specify) It is not an organized Wikimedia movement, but it is about Wikipedia's medical and health content. We believe that the results will benefit the Wikipedia community, WikiProject Medicine as well as the public who will be accessing health and medical content now and in the future.
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
We would like to bring attention to the disparity in the coverage of male vs female health and medical articles on English language Wikipedia. Concerns have been expressed about the sex balance of content on WP. Our study had: 1) identified female, male, and not sex specific top 1,000 health articles on English WP; and 2) assessed the quality of these health articles. We provide a detailed breakdown of comparison on a number of important metrics. In a nutshell, of the 1,000 most read WP medical articles, 933/1,000 (93.3%) were ‘not sex specific’ and 67/1000 (6.7%) were sex-specific. Coverage of female topics was higher (4.7%) than male topics (1.5%) which was proportional to the two medical textbooks where 91.1% of content was rated as ‘not sex specific’, female topics (7.8%), and male topics (1.8%) (no statistically significant difference (Fisher extract P=.081). Female category articles were ranked higher on the WP medical topic importance list (top, high, or mid importance) compared with male category articles (borderline for statistical significance, Fisher extract P=.05). Female articles had a higher number of total and unique references, a slightly higher number of page watchers and pictures, but slightly lower number of edits compared with male articles (all these were statistically non-significant). Across a number of metrics, the quality of WP’s health-related articles for both sexes was comparable. This study has highlighted the complexity of health information needs pertaining to the sexes. This is unlike the imbalance seen among biographies of living people, of which about 75% pertain to males.
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
The planned activities are essentially all complete. The steps included planning the study methodology, collecting and extracting data, analyzing data, and a study write-up for an academic publication.
The reason we are requesting funding is to cover the publication fees of this study, which has been submitted to the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) on 24th March 2023 as follows: https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/47562
The link above provides a full preprint. We have not yet received a decision from the JMIR editors, but if accepted, which is highly likely, we would like to be able to provide immediate payment of the publication fees which are: $3350. (Please see here: https://www.jmir.org/about-journal/article-processing-fees)
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
The team consists of:
- 1. Dr Nuša Farič - Research Fellow at Edinburgh University, Usher Institute, Scotland, UK. (Username: Hydra_Rain) - WikiProject Medicine, WikiProject Medicine Translation Task Force (not a salaried/ volunteer contractor, consultant or volunteer).
- 2. Dr James Heilman (MD, Emergency Medicine, clinical assistant professor at the Department of emergency medicine at the University of British Columbia, the head of the Department of emergency medicine at East Kootenay Regional Hospital in Cranbrook, British Columbia) (Username: Doc James) - WikiProject Medicine, Wikimedia Canada, WikiProject Medicine Translation Task Force (not a salaried/ volunteer contractor, consultant or volunteer).
- 3. Professor Henry WW Potts - Institute of Health Informatics, UCL, London. (Username: Bondegezou) No Wikimedia groups. (not a salaried/ volunteer contractor, consultant or volunteer).
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)
Wikipedia readers and creators of health and medical Wikipedia pages. We will not require participants, but the results of this study will be shared and disseminated to WikiProject Medicine and hopefully at Wikimania 2023 in Singapore for which we have submitted an application for a 15-minute talk/presentation.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
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- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
We did not discuss the idea of the project with our community members or groups yet.
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Content Gender gap
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Gender and diversity
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Gender Identity
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Improve User Experience
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
1. We would like to learn how to approach discussion topics on inclusion based on sex; 2) How to best engage the editing community to achieve the highest quality of health and medical articles for both sexes; 3) We would like to educate the Wikipedia editor's community as well as the public - by highlighting that the needs for medical information differ between the sexes. 4) An achievement for us would mean firstly, highlighting the disparities that this study has found and brining to Wikimedia's and Wikipedia community's attention. 5) Secondly, we would like to stir a discussion and create action points, such as prioritising topics together with WikiProject Medicine to achieve good article or featured article status for most popular/ top Wikipedia medical and health pages.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 0 | |
| Number of editors | 0 | |
| Number of organizers | 0 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
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| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
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| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
This is not applicable.
Financial proposal[edit]
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://www.jmir.org/about-journal/article-processing-fees (Please see article processing fee for JMIR)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
3350 GBP
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
3350 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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