Dear all,
I'm happy to announce that the user group "WikiProject Med Foundation" has a
new board <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med/Board> elected,
which includes:
1) *James Heilman* - chair
2) *Shani Evenstein* - vice chair; membership admin.
3) *Doug Taylor* - treasurer
4) *James Hare* - secretary
5) *Jacob F. de Wolff*
6) *Sydney Poore*
7) *Carl Fredrik Sjoland*
8) *Daniel Mietchen*
9) *Vinicius Siqueira*
10) *Subas Chandra Rout*
11) *Jake Orlowitz*
12) *Emily Temple-Wood *
Please join me in thanking previous board members *Anthony Cole*, *Peter
Coti* & *Brian Basden, *as well as *Lane Rasberry, *for their service thus
far and their support during the transition period.
Wishing all of us a fruitful and productive term,
Shani Evenstein,
On behalf of the WikiProject Med Foundation Board.
Dear WikiProject Med Foundation Members,
It is time to elect a new board for the WPMEDF that will serve and advance
our joint goals in the coming 2 years.
This election, we have 12 candidates applying for 12 sits on the new board
(listed below). As members of the WPMEDF and in compliance with our bylaws, *we
need your votes, **accepting the 12 candidates as board members. *This will
allow the new (and eager!) board to officially start its term.
Voting is enabled* via this google form
<https://goo.gl/forms/ja5gIyFffjOBWf3h2>*, which will remain available* till
Jan 14th 2017 @ midnight* (whatever timezone you are in). Please note --
that your voting details are confidential and available only to the
Membership Secretary, in order to verify votes' validity, as required by
our bylaws.
Thank you in advance for your participation and contribution and wishing
all of us a fruitful, active & exciting 2017!
Best,
Shani Evenstein
Membership Secretary
WikiProject Med Foundation.
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List of candidates:
1) *James Heilman* - an ER doc, from *Canada*
2) *Jacob F. de Wolff* - an internal medicine doc, from the *UK*
3) *Sydney Poore* - a retired nurse, was the WiR at Cochrane, from the *US*
4) *Carl Fredrik Sjoland* - a medical student from *Sweden*
5) Daniel Mietchen* - * a researcher from *Germany*
6) *Vinicius Siqueira* - a young doctor from *Brazil *
7) *Doug* is a retired teacher and SCUBA diver, from the *UK*.
8) *Jake Orlowitz *- head of the WP Library Project at WMF, from the *US*
9) *James Hare* - WiR at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health; Secretary, WM-DC, from the *US *
10) *Emily Temple-Wood *- a medical student, from the *US*
11) *Subas Chandra Rout* - a retired orthopedic surgeon, contributes mostly
to Odia Wikipedia, from *India*
12) *Shani Evenstein* - Medical Education specialist, lecturer at Sackler
School of Medicine, TAU, from *Israel*.
Forwarding.
Pine
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:55 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] International League Against Epilepsy
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, HIFA2015 -
Healthcare Information For All by 2015 <HIFA2015(a)dgroups.org>
Hey All
The ILAE are recruiting an editor for a Wikipedia and epilepsy initiative.
They are the worlds oldest epilepsy organisation (founded in 1909) as well
as the organisation that defines the term "epilepsy".
They are encouraging joint publication on Wikipedia and in their journal
"Epilepsia" of Wikipedia formating articles on types of epilepsy.
They have also already released their own online encyclopedia under an open
license (CC BY SA 4.0) excluding pictures and videos.
https://www.epilepsydiagnosis.org/
The application closes Jan 6th, 2017 and further details are here
http://www.ilae.org/Visitors/News/documents/WikipediaEpilepsyEditor.pdf
If this is an area of interest please apply :-)
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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