WikiProjectMed:WMMED/Reports/2024
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This is a report of activities of Wiki Project Med Foundation for 2024. It is not a complete list of everything we have done this year but represents a highlight of our work. The compiling of this report — like much that we do — has been a group effort, and we encourage involvement by further individuals within the wider membership.
Projects and activities
MDWiki
mdwiki was added to the interwiki map.[1]
NC Commons
Consensus was achieved on AF WP to move forward with further use of NC Commons.[2]
Bot built to automatically import images from NCCommons to AF WP when an image is called but a user.[3]
Template was developed in collaboration with the WMF legal team to clarify use of NC material within WPs.[4]
Fixed the misordering of images within cases.[5]
Offline
Apps
In partnership with Kiwix, we launched a new version for iPhone.[6]
Internet-in-a-Box
Working on distribution via the Wikipedia Store.
Translation
- A video with ProZ[7]
- Presented at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey on April 16th, 24
VideoWiki
VideoWiki is live again.
OurWorldinData
The still images from OWID, which we were involved with uploading in 2020, received about 241 million pageviews across nearly 100 WMF wikis over a 20 month period.
Launched a gadget that brings OWID into Wikipedia.[8]
Worked on security concerns with the WMF.[9] This included meeting with WMF staff.
Discussed ways forwards Jun 19th 2024.
Outreach
- Tim presented about IIAB at the Electronic Literature Organization (Un)conference: Access Works!
- Meet with members of the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Jan 29, 2024.
- Working to collaborate with CHEO and the U of T Biomedical Communications program.
Other
- We provided financial support to certain members to attend Wikimania in Poland. For a draft of the application process WPM:Scholarships for Wikimania
- Our work was highlighted by the WMF in their annual report.[10][11]
Administration
Board
We are holding elections for X spots in 2024.
Membership
Charity status
2024 Budget
Approved by the board April 6th, 2024.[12]
Within the WMF grant of $130,000
- Partnerships coordinator (Lucas Rosnau) $30,000
- Fundraising (Jake Orlowitz) $13,000
- Product $45,000
- Project Management (James Hare) $7,500
- Other contractors $37,500 (Hassan, Wolff)
- MDWiki and NC Commons (Ryan Schmidt) $20,000
- Translation tools etc (Ibrahem) $8,000
- Wikimania scholarships $6,000
- Admin, accounting, banking fees, and tax support (contractors) $2,000
- IIAB hardware $5,000
- Unallocated $1,000
The Board recognizes that financial needs may fluctuate throughout the fiscal year. Any changes of up to 10% to individual budget line items may be approved by the WPM:Grant Oversight Committee. Any changes over 10%, however, must be approved by the Board. Grant contact person at the WMF is Chris Schilling.
Financials
All values are in USD.
Income
We received a 130,000 USD grant (G-GS-2308-13482) from the WMF for 2024.
Expenses
- Ibrahem $500 USD/month ($6,000 USD)
- James Hare $1,500 USD/month * 5 months ($7,500 USD) then by the hour
- Lucas paid on receipt of invoices
- Ryan paid on receipt of invoices
- Brian paid on invoices ($537.50 USD Apr 28,24)
- Pies (2,750.32 CAD from paypal as 349.45 CAD and 1,794.51 USD)
- Jake Orlowitz 13,000 USD + 1,500 USD Jun 25,24
- Funding for Nusa to attend Wikimania $1,000.00 USD Jul 11, 24
Year balance (net change)
Assets Dec 31st 2024
Three year goals
- Integrate interactive OWID graphs into at least 10 languages and build work flows to keep this material up to date.
- Keep the translation dashboard functional and expand the number of translators to >250, articles to >10,000 translated, languages worked in to >70, and pageviews to over 10 million. Reengage with TWB.
- Expand the number of articles ready to translate from 3,000 to 4,000
- Build the workflow for integrating content from NC Commons to languages of Wikipedia that wish to use it
- Move 500,000 public domain images from NC Commons to Commons and get them viewable with the CT scan viewer
- Create a flexible calculator widget and get it working within a few languages of Wikipedia
- Continue to distribute IIAB via the Wikipedia store. This may require outsourcing assembly of the devices and customer support
- Upload all of the Khan and TED videos to NC Commons
- Publish a paper in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization on the outcomes of our multi year collaboration around essential medicines
- Work with Basque Wikipedia around video creation.
- Looks at introducing a text to video feature within VideoWiki
- Develop relationships around medical illustrations
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