Thanks, Reid. When you say there's insufficient data history, do you mean
in other sources? Zika was discovered in 1947 and the wiki page for it was
built in 2009. We have high quality geolocated data since May 2015.
I'm still doing research (I admit the distractions at the foundation have
gotten in the way, I apologize for that). I hope to get back to it with
renewed force this weekend.
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Priedhorsky, Reid <reidpr(a)lanl.gov> wrote:
> We do have more work in progress to extend the 2014 paper, in particular
> to mosquito-borne diseases in a Spanish-speaking country, though not Zika
> because there is insufficient data history.
>
> I appreciate the pointer. Are there any specific questions folks would
> like me to address in this thread?
>
> Thanks,
> Reid
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Fellow Wikipedians
We have been working hard in the Arabic Wikipedia to establish a twin
WikiProject Medicine that would address local medical issues, in
addition to participating in global translation efforts.
One of the questions I had was the criteria currently followed to
evaluate the importance of medical articles on the English Wikipedia.
They seem a little bit vague and more difficult to follow when
compared to the quality scale.
Is there any suggested third-party reference that provides some kind
of a guide or a list of important medical subjects?
Best,
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hey Dan,
>
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 3:02 AM, Dan Andreescu <dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>
>> So, I felt personally compelled in the case of Zika, and the confusing
>> coverage it has seen, to offer to personally help.
>
>
> Which aspect of the coverage are you referring to as confusing?
>
Well, so the first reports were that 3500 cases of microcephaly were linked
to Zika in Brazil, since October. If you do the math, with Brazil's birth
rate of 300,000 per year, 3500 for three months is incredibly high. The
number went up to 4400 before it was discredited and the latest I read is
that it's down to 404 [1] and there are claims of over-inflation. That
same article talks about serious doubts that Zika even has anything to do
with microcephaly. In reading around some more about the subject, it seems
like a multi-variate analysis gone wrong.
>
>
I can run queries, test hypotheses, and help publish data that could back
>> up articles. Privacy of our editors is of course still obviously
>> protected, but that's easier to do in a specific case with human review
>> than in the general case.
>>
>>
>
> I'm up for brainstorming about what we can do and helping. Please keep
> me in the loop. In general, given that a big chunk of our traffic comes
> from Google at the moment, it would be great to work with the researchers
> in Google involved in Google's health related initiatives to produce
> complementary knowledge to what Google can already tell about Zika (for
> example, this
> <https://www.google.com/trends/story/US_cu_p-RCiVIBAAC37M_en>). I'll
> reach out to the few people I know to get some more information.
> Depending on what complementary knowledge we want to produce, working with
> WikiProject Medicine can be helpful, too.
>
Cool, yeah, I'm nowhere close to knowledgeable on this, I can data-dog
though :)
[1] www.cbc.ca/news/health/microcephaly-brazil-zika-reality-1.3442580
We have talked in the past about releasing granular geocoded pageview data
so that we may track the spread of diseases. The efforts of the Los Alamos
National Lab folks to do this in a privacy sensitive way are on-going, and
we have our own efforts as well, but completely solving this problem in the
general case is known to be very hard.
So, I felt personally compelled in the case of Zika, and the confusing
coverage it has seen, to offer to personally help. I can run queries, test
hypotheses, and help publish data that could back up articles. Privacy of
our editors is of course still obviously protected, but that's easier to do
in a specific case with human review than in the general case.
I offer as much of my volunteer time as will get the job done, plus any of
my official time that my team-mates deem appropriate (they're pretty
awesome, so you probably have me double full time if you need me).
I'm trying to find a script that makes it easy to insert assessment
tags into (medical) articles. The one I have found was Kephir's
rater[0], but it's more general-purpose and multi-functional in a way
that makes it difficult to localize into the Arabic Wikipedia.
Any other suggested script?
Best regards,
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kephir/gadgets/rater
Dear Wikipedians,
Earlier this week, a large conference for the students of health
professions was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The organizers were
kind enough to invite me to speak about Wikipedia and Medicine and
about the medical wikithons we have been organizing in Saudi Arabia.
The turnout was really good (3,500 students attended the conference!)
and I spoke about the following points:
1. Wikipedia *is* a reliable source for health information.
2. Wikipedia *is* the right place to distribute health-related
information.
3. WikiProject Medicine is active and can use your help!
The presentation I used was in Arabic, but it includes many quotes and
citations in English. The presentation is best viewed using
Chrome/Chromium (and doesn't work on mobile browsers):
https://osamakhalid.com/mirror/presentations/hpc_2016/
I just thought that this might be of interest to people who would like
to present the case for Wikipedia and medicine.
Best,
Interesting intersection of an MMPORG and epidemiology.
Pine
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From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:22 PM
Subject: Proposed social media post: epidemiology and the World of Warcraft
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Share from the main Wikipedia account?
"In 2005 a glitch in World of Warcraft allowed a plague to spread in the
game leading non-infected players to abandon cities while those infected
were forced into quarantines. It was later studied by epidemiologists to
see how real life people would react to a pandemic."
Pine
I've just come out of the second teleconference with fellow WPMEDF board
member Jake Orlowitz, and Fiona Godlee and Peter Ashman of BMJ.
BMJ has offered to provide expert peer-review of up to 10 of our medical
articles. We can choose the articles and can submit them at our own pace.
I'll post the details at English Wikipedia's Wikiproject Medicine talk page
on Monday or Tuesday - I'm very busy the next 48 hours. Have a great
weekend everyone.
--
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>