Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine/Translation task force/Grant
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I was just drafting the exact same proposal! This is fantastic! Of course this is the best kind of proposal for this project!
I told you that I am doing a similar project with Consumer Reports. They have a list of partners
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology
- American Academy of Family Physicians
- American College of Cardiology
- American College of Physicians
- American College of Radiology
- American Gastroenterological Association
- American Society of Nephrology
- American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
and of course no one can speak for the societies, but all of these groups have expressed high interest in getting health information online and particularly in using Wikipedia as a platform for delivering it. user:Pharos is helping to arrange a talk about this with meta:Wikimedia New York City. For this Wikipedian in Residence position at Consumer Reports I was thinking of using the model of the outreach:Wikipedia Education Program to go to medical students and have them contribute to Wikipedia articles as part of their learning curricula. Pharos said that it is likely that some campus ambassadors in this area would be willing to facilitate a med-student campus ambassador outreach, and I was just talking with someone at the ACP who said that their student union would likely be interested in hearing about such a project and promoting it among their members. Hmm... we should talk.
I have some ideas for execution and tracking efficacy metrics. One big difference between what I have in mind and what you are proposing is that I am doing something which immediately allows broader editing choices than the 80 articles because I see no good way to execute the program and ask the volunteers to constrain their interests, although those 80 articles are great choices for anyone looking for ideas.
Also I had in mind the development of some Wikipedia wizards to industrialize the process of helping people who would put medical content onto Wikipedia to make decisions about whether that is okay. I have heard a lot of concerns from various groups about any risk of them endorsing Wikipedia. I have some specific risks in mind and instead of explaining this to them, I think it might be good to draft some messages specific to health workers, arrange some legal and peer endorsements to set a precedent, then send them to a place where they can see what is being done and what needs to be done. The technological innovation would be site infrastructure on a project page.
I totally am behind you on this and want to support your grant proposal in any way that I can. You need to apply for this and you need to get it. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:38, 10 May 2012 (UTC)