Grants:Project/Rapid/zidovetz/offlinewikipediaingreece
Goal and expected impact[edit]
As a result of my project healthcare providers at this location will have access to offline Wikipedia and training on how to use it. Also, this project will serve as a model for other health care providers in similar situations.
Following this experience I will write a report of 1-2 pages and share it in a Wikimedia project for publication. Also, I have a survey for health care providers which I have used in similar situations, and will be surveying at least 10 health care providers about their digital media needs and what they think of offline Wikipedia. I will report the results of that survey.
Other instructions[edit]
- I asked JRabah_(WMF) for a referral to the Wikimedia community in Greece. If they are willing, they could meet me and I could demonstrate how I share the Internet in a box device.
Project Goal[edit]
Briefly explain what are you trying to accomplish with this project, or what do you expect will change as a result of this grant. Example goals include, "recruit new editors", "add high quality content", or "train existing editors on a specific skill".
- present Wikipedia to new readers
Project Plan[edit]
Activities[edit]
Tell us how you'll carry out your project. What will you and other organizers spend your time doing?
- I am a physician who uses Wikipedia and who will be volunteering at a clinic managed by an NGO in Greece. This is a clinic with limited access to Internet. I will be demonstrating a method for sharing Internet-in-a-box/Kiwix/offline Wikipedia to healthcare providers who need Wikipedia's health information.
How will you let others in your community know about your project (please provide links to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions)? Why are you targeting a specific audience?
- This was presented at Wikimania in the medicine conference
- It was presented in the Offline.Network conference for offline Wikipedia following Wikimania
- The target audience was addressed in person at clinics in the crisis area
- This project targeted this audience because clinicians are professionals in need of Wikipedia support
- This is an attractive direction for outreach because of popular interest in presenting Wikipedia outside the English speaking world and to offline readers.
What will you have done at the end of your project? How will you follow-up with people that are involved with your project?
- event report
- ongoing presentations for Wikipedia in medicine
Impact[edit]
How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets and feel free to add more specific to your project:
- Number of total participants - 10 clinicians serving hundreds of clients
- Number of articles created or improved (if applicable) - 0 not applicable
- Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (if applicable) - 0 not applicable
- Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects (if applicable) - 0 not applicable
Resources[edit]
What resources do you have? Include information on who is the organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding). There is existing Wikimedia community infrastructure in place to support this project.
- en:Wikipedia:Wiki loves the Dominican Republic
- Wiki Project Med/App
- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline
- Internet-in-a-Box
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense:
- Travel (round trip airfare from x to y): USD 1100
- Accommodation: USD 17 Euro per night x 10 nights = USD 200
Endorsements[edit]
- Support I am involved in this project with others. Right now I am at the Kiwix Hackathon with about 40 other people where we are developing offline Wikipedia tools and strategies. I coordinated the Wikipedia community side of the project described at "Sharing Wikipedia offline medical information in the Dominican Republic". There are at least 150 close to this project and lots of other people who are stakeholders in this. Right now, all of this participation is not entirely focused, but I think everyone would agree that something which everyone needs is in-person user testing of the concept. Sam is a physician who is already committed to going to clinics with his own money to be a wiki evangelist. We need more physicians testing this concept in these settings. For this project he is only requesting travel reimbursement for his flight. We could not purchase labor like his for 10 times this cost and as he is willing to give it freely only asking for travel support and a little accommodation, and as he has an established history of reporting offline Wikipedia use in clinics, funding this is a great value. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:59, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
- Same, Sam is great to work with and dedicated to this project which, used right, has the potential to help save and improve lives in areas all over the world, including relief sites, refugee, disaster and other crisis situations. Shanluan (talk) 23:04, 8 December 2017 (UTC)