Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Events and residencies
This page lists events, university courses and Wikipedia residencies that focused on improving medical articles.
Wikimedians in residence[edit]
A Wikipedian in residence or Wikimedian in residence (WiR) is a Wikipedia editor, a Wikipedian (or Wikimedian), who accepts a placement with an institution to facilitate Wikipedia entries related to that institution's mission, encourage and assist it to release material under open licences, and to develop the relationship between the host institution and the Wikimedia community.
Consumer Reports[edit]
From 2012-2018 Consumer Reports employed Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry as Wikimedian in Residence. The major objective for the project was supporting medical professional associations and medical schools in sharing their knowledge in Wikipedia. Activities including adding key messages from public health campaigns to Wikipedia as statements matched to sources, training of medical students to edit Wikipedia in the Wikipedia:Wikipedia education program in medicine, and adding safety information of various kinds from Consumer Reports in Wikipedia articles. The project was supported by Wikimedia New York City.
Project pages:
Cancer Research UK[edit]
Between May 2014 and February 2015, Cancer Research UK employed John Byrne as Wikimedian in residence in London, UK
Project page: WikiProject CRUK
Publications:
- We’ve joined forces with Wikipedia to improve cancer information
- New images released are quickly put to use, Wikimedia UK blog
- Wikipedia – is it fit for patient consumption?, CRUK blog, 27 May
- Cancer Research UK, Royal Society and Women Fellows…, 20 May, Wikimedia UK blog
Cochrane[edit]
From May 2014 to 2016 Cochrane employed Sydney Poore as Wikipedian in residence. Since 2016 their Wikipedian in residence is Jennifer Dawson.
Project page: Cochrane Wikipedia Partnership
Publications:
- The Cochrane-Wikipedia Partnership in 2022
- Improving Health-Related Content on Wikipedia
- Cochrane-Wikipedia: 2020 Update
- August 2018. Get involved with the Cochrane-Wikipedia Initiative. Jennifer Dawson
- Special Report on Cochrane-Wikipedia
- October 2017. Cochrane-Wikipedia Initiative: Keeping Wikipedia content up to date [1]
- October 2017 publication. SEED: a tool for disseminating systematic review data into Wikipedia [2]
- Wikipedia: an important dissemination tool for Cochrane
- 12 months on: Cochrane Oral Health, Dundee Dental School, and Wikipedia – a project update
- Rewriting Wikipedia
- The Cochrane-Wikipedia partnership in 2016
- What proportion of Cochrane Reviews are Wiki-compatible?
- Fixing mistakes and replacing outdated content on Wikipedia
- Cochrane Collaboration and Wikipedia
- Cochrane recruits talented Wikipedian in Residence
Wellcome Collection[edit]
Wellcome Collection employed Alice White as their Wikipedian in residence between 2016 and 2017. From October 2017, Wellcome Collection's Wikimedian in Residence became a full-time member of the Digital Editorial team.
Project page: Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome
Publications:
- Images from Wellcome Collection pass 1.5 billion views on Wikipedia
- Wellcome Collection, Wikipedia and the pandemic
International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE)[edit]
Marium Umme Kulsum is the Wikipedian in residence for the ILAE Wikipedia Epilepsy Project.
Project page: ILAE Wikipedia Project, WikiProject Epilepsy
HSE National Health Library and Knowledge Service (NHLKS)[edit]
In 2018, in partnership with National Doctors Training & Planning, the NHLKS employed Niall O’Mara as the first National Healthcare Wikipedian in Residence. In 2020 Conor Malone was appointed to the role.
- Wikipedian-in-Residence: a global first for health libraries
- World's First National Healthcare Wikipedian-in-Residence
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)[edit]
In December 2021 the NIHR employed Adam Harangozó as Wikipedian in residence.
Project page: NIHR
Publications:
- Where should we share health information if not where people are looking?
- Covid: How scientists are working with Wikipedia on access to information
- How can Wikipedia help disseminate research findings?
Netherlands Cancer Institute[edit]
As part of a longer residency at multiple places, the Netherlands Cancer Institute hosted a Wikipedian in residence between February and March 2014.
Project page: Wikipedians in Special Residence (in English)
Department of Pathology, Calicut Medical College[edit]
In 2015, the Department of Pathology employed Netha Hussain as Wikipedian in residence.
Project page: Department of Pathology, Calicut Medical College
History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group[edit]
The HMBRG employed Andy Mabbett
Project page: HMBRG
The Physiological Society[edit]
The Wikipedian in residence for the Society was Andy Mabbett in 2017.
Project page: PhySoc
Publications:
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)[edit]
Emily Temple-Wood worked as the Wikipedian in residence at NIOSH for four months in 2015. Since 2017 the role is filled by John P. Sadowski.
Project page: NIOSH, WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health
Publications:
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)[edit]
The Wikipedian in residence at PCORI has been Jeffery Keefer since 2019.
Project page: Integrating Patient-centered Outcomes Research into Wikipedia, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (old)
Publications:
University initiatives[edit]
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania[edit]
Gallaudet University[edit]
Georgetown University[edit]
Grand Valley State University[edit]
Houston Baptist University[edit]
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai[edit]
Project page: Wikipedia:Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Imperial College School of Medicine[edit]
John Brown University[edit]
Rockford University[edit]
Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University[edit]
Project page: Wikipedia:Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University
Salisbury University, Universities in Maryland[edit]
University of California at San Francisco[edit]
Project page: UCSF School of Medicine
University of Hawaii—Mānoa[edit]
University of Illinois[edit]
University of Massachusetts[edit]
University of Michigan[edit]
University of Nebraska[edit]
University of Northern Colorado[edit]
University of Pennsylvania[edit]
University of South Carolina Aiken[edit]
University of North Texas Health Science Center[edit]
University of Virginia[edit]
Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry has been Wikimedian in Residence at the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia since 2018. Medical projects include
- Article and citation matching research, a machine learning project to match scholarly publications to Wikipedia articles
- meta:WikiCite, a project to curate citation metadata into Wikidata, where PubMed Central has been the first major corpus
- WikiProject Clinical Trials, a project to import ClinicalTrials.gov into Wikidata and also further develop it and other trials data
- https://scholia.toolforge.org/ - Scholia is the Wikimedia scholarly profiling service
- For example, Scholia for Medical information in Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:SWASTHA for translating health information from English to languages of India
University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire[edit]
Utah State University[edit]
Palo Alto University[edit]
Vanderbilt University[edit]
Western University of Health Sciences[edit]
Other projects[edit]
National Institutes of Health (NIH)[edit]
Publications:
- NIH, Wikipedia Join Forces to Improve Online Health Info
- Wikipedia Teaches NIH Scientists Wiki Culture
- NIH and Wikimedia Foundation Collaborate to Improve Online Health Information
External links[edit]
- Wikipedian in Residence on the Outreach wiki
- Creating a Wikimedian in Residence position practical how-to guide